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Introducing Search By Target Framework on NuGet.org
Feb 14, 2023
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Introducing Search By Target Framework on NuGet.org

Jon Douglas Advay Tandon
Jon,
Advay

Last year, we brought a new feature to improve the way you assess target framework compatibility of a NuGet package through a new "Frameworks" tab. Today, we are announcing a new feature that will allow you to search by a target framework on NuGet.org. Here’s how it looks: The first thing you might notice is that there is a new “Frameworks” filter on the left where you can select from a collection of .NET frameworks you’re interested in a package providing assets for. Selecting .NET in this example will match packages that are built for modern .NET including through and provides at least one of these versi...

Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered
Nov 8, 2022
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Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered

Jon Douglas Nikolche Kolev
Jon,
Nikolche

NuGet 6.4 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.4 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.4 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development. NuGet 6.4 Highlights There are many new features in NuGet 6.4: Central Package Management is production ready Earlier this year, we announced Central Package Management which is a feature to help you manage d...

NuGet Season of Giving
Sep 30, 2022
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NuGet Season of Giving

Jon Douglas Nikolche Kolev Camila Thompson
Jon,
Nikolche,
Camila

NuGet has gone through a lot of changes over the last 10 years. From the package manager console, standalone NuGet.exe, and integration of NuGet into the .NET SDK, we have always relied on the open source community to help evolve and advance NuGet to meet the needs of the .NET ecosystem. Since NuGet has been on GitHub, the repository has resolved nearly 10,000 issues. Over the last 6 months, we focused on solving popular bugs filed through the GitHub repository and Developer Community. As a result of that effort, we addressed over 40 issues to improve your developer quality of life. Season of Giving For the ne...

Announcing NuGet 6.3 – Transitive Dependencies, Floating Versions, and Re-enabling Signed Package Verification
Aug 9, 2022
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Announcing NuGet 6.3 – Transitive Dependencies, Floating Versions, and Re-enabling Signed Package Verification

Jon Douglas Nikolche Kolev
Jon,
Nikolche

NuGet 6.3 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.3 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.3 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps developers discover new .NET packages to use for their .NET applications, while making package management easier during your daily development. NuGet 6.3 Highlights There are many new features in NuGet 6.3: Consume pdbs from packages in PackageReference For any given assembly under and folder from a , if there are files next to it that differ only ...

Introducing Transitive Dependencies in Visual Studio
Aug 9, 2022
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Introducing Transitive Dependencies in Visual Studio

Jon Douglas Jean-Pierre Briedé
Jon,
Jean-Pierre

We heard from you that direct dependencies are easy to track, but that you struggle with tracking transitive dependencies. We want to make that easier for the day-to-day management of your NuGet packages in Visual Studio. To help you track transitive dependencies and remediate vulnerabilities quickly with SDK-style projects, we are introducing an experimental feature in Visual Studio 17.3 to help you view and take action regarding your transitive dependencies. If you're apart of our experiment group, you'll be able to see your transitive dependencies whenever you're managing your NuGet packages in Visual Studio....

HTTPS everywhere
Aug 9, 2022
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HTTPS everywhere

Jon Douglas
Jon Douglas

Safety guaranteed As an ongoing effort to make HTTPS everywhere a reality for NuGet, we have taken a number of steps to help protect your everyday package management experiences. Earlier this year, a security fact sheet from The White House reinforced companies to take action to secure our software supply chains. HTTPS and SSL not only encrypt our data so it cannot be used if it is stolen, but it helps us to avoid MITM attacks. In short, it prevents someone from getting between you and NuGet. Every time you interact with NuGet, it should be over HTTPS so you can be sure the response you're getting back is in f...

Quickly Map Your NuGet Packages to Sources
May 4, 2022
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Quickly Map Your NuGet Packages to Sources

Erick Yondon
Erick Yondon

Package Source Mapper When we introduced Package Source Mapping late last year, we noticed a certain challenge to make onboarding to using the feature easier. Could there be a way for us to automatically generate a NuGet.config for you based on your project’s known packages and sources? We started to develop a tool that does just that for you. Learn more about how you can use it below. Getting the Tool You can download the tool directly from NuGet.org as a dotnet tool: Alternatively, you can download and compile the code locally if you prefer to. Using Package Source Mapper The package source mapper tool...

Introducing Central Package Management
Apr 12, 2022
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Introducing Central Package Management

Jeff Kluge
Jeff Kluge

Central Package Management Dependency management is a core feature of NuGet. Managing dependencies for a single project can be easy. Managing dependencies for multi-project solutions can prove to be difficult as they start to scale in size and complexity. In situations where you manage common dependencies for many different projects, you can leverage NuGet's central package management features to do all of this from the ease of a single location. Historically, NuGet package dependencies have been managed in two main locations: Starting with NuGet 6.2, you can centrally manage your dependencies in your pro...

Requiring two-factor authentication on NuGet.org
Feb 22, 2022
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Requiring two-factor authentication on NuGet.org

Claire Novotny
Claire Novotny

NuGet.org will begin requiring two-factor authentication for accounts starting March 8th.