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Welcoming SymbolSource to the .NET Foundation
Welcoming SymbolSource to the .NET Foundation
Karan NandwaniMay 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18
We are excited to welcome SymbolSource.org to the .NET Foundation! SymbolSource has been providing a valuable service to the .NET Community for years with the ability to host Symbols for public NuGet packages on SymbolSource. With recent progress made in several areas, including SymbolSource being published to GitHub and NuGet.org planning a ...
Organizations on NuGet.org
Organizations on NuGet.org
Anand GauravApril 17, 2018Apr 17, 201804/17/18
We are happy to announce support for Organizations on NuGet.org. This will help businesses and open-source projects collaborate on packages using a single nuget.org identity. Why organizations? NuGet.org used to allow you to create an account and publish packages through that account with little support to manage and publish packages as a ...
Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks
Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks
Karan NandwaniApril 9, 2018Apr 9, 201804/9/18
Last year, we introduced the option to make PackageReference the default package management format for managing NuGet dependencies when installing the first NuGet package for a newly created projects. With Visual Studio Version 15.7 Preview 3, we have introduced the capability to migrate existing projects that use the packages.config format to...
Incident report – NuGet.org downtime on March 22, 2018
Incident report – NuGet.org downtime on March 22, 2018
AvatarMarch 22, 2018Mar 22, 201803/22/18
We did this blog post to report about the incident that happened on March 22, 2018. In the last couple of days we digged deeper into the incident. Here is the summary of our findings and proposed next steps. Customer Impact NuGet.org website and V2 APIs were unavailable for 2 hours on March 22, 2018 between 8:45AM - 11:30AM UTC. More than 1....
NuGet Spring 2018 Roadmap
NuGet Spring 2018 Roadmap
Anand GauravMarch 1, 2018Mar 1, 201803/1/18
In August 2017, we published the NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap where we outlined our backlog for the upcoming quarter. Since then, we’ve published specifications for these experiences on GitHub for the community to review. You have provided a ton of great feedback that has helped us ensure we deliver the right experiences. Thank you for your ...
Deprecating NuGet.org authentication
Deprecating NuGet.org authentication
Anand GauravFebruary 27, 2018Feb 27, 201802/27/18
As announced in our NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap blog post, we are transitioning away from NuGet.org’s home-grown authentication mechanism which will eventually allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2-FA). In preparation for this transition, we had already added support for Microsoft accounts (...
NuGet.org package publishing workflow – behind the scenes
NuGet.org package publishing workflow – behind the scenes
Anand GauravFebruary 1, 2018Feb 1, 201802/1/18
In December 2017, we changed the NuGet.org backend publishing pipeline to introduce a set of validation steps for submitted packages. Our goal is to maintain the same level of experience in terms of the time and effort it would take to publish a package and have it available for download. However, these new validation steps caused a few ...
NuGet Package Signing
NuGet Package Signing
AvatarSeptember 14, 2017Sep 14, 201709/14/17
In our NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap, we highlighted security as the main area of investment over the next few months. This blog post describes a major part of that roadmap in greater detail – package signing. We started talking about supporting signed packages on NuGet.org a while ago. For example, in 2015 we published a post on Package Signing ...
What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
Anand GauravAugust 15, 2017Aug 15, 201708/15/17
We are happy to announce an update to the NuGet client that comes bundled with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 RTW and .NET Core 2.0 SDK. This release introduces support for new scenarios such as .NET Core 2.0/.NET Standard 2.0, some new features, a series of bug fixes and performance improvements. You can see more details, known issues, and ...