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NuGet.org starts repo-signing packages

August 10, 2018 Aug 10, 2018 08/10/18

Rido

In May, we implemented Stage 1 and enabled support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. Today, we are announcing Stage 2 of our NuGet package signing journey - tamper proofing the entire package dependency graph. What is a Repository Signature? A repository signature is a code signing signature produced with an X....

NuGet Summer 2018 Roadmap

July 2, 2018 Jul 2, 2018 07/2/18

Anand Gaurav

This blog post provides insights into the NuGet team plans for the upcoming quarter (July - Sep 2018). In the March 2018 NuGet Spring 2018 Roadmap, we had outlined Package Signing, Organizations, Cross-platform credential provider support, Repeatable builds for PackageReference based projects, etc. as our immediate priorities. We were able to ...

Introducing signed package submissions to NuGet.org

May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018 05/22/18

Rido

In September 2017, we announced our plans to improve the security of the NuGet ecosystem by introducing the ability for package authors to sign packages. Today, we want to announce support for any NuGet.org user to submit signed packages to NuGet.org. A signed NuGet package is designed to be fully compatible with pre-existing NuGet servers ...

NuGet.org will only support MSA/AAD starting June 1st, 2018

May 15, 2018 May 15, 2018 05/15/18

Anand Gaurav

We had previously announced the deprecation of NuGet.org's home-grown authentication in favor of Microsoft accounts (MSA) that will allow us to add support for additional security systems such as two-factor authentication (2FA). We will be disabling the NuGet.org's home-grown authentication mechanism starting June 1st, 2018. This means that ...

Welcoming SymbolSource to the .NET Foundation

May 1, 2018 May 1, 2018 05/1/18

Karan Nandwani

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

April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18

Anand Gaurav

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

April 9, 2018 Apr 9, 2018 04/9/18

Karan Nandwani

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 format to use ...

Incident report – NuGet.org downtime on March 22, 2018

March 22, 2018 Mar 22, 2018 03/22/18

Svetlana Kofman

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

March 1, 2018 Mar 1, 2018 03/1/18

Anand Gaurav

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

February 27, 2018 Feb 27, 2018 02/27/18

Anand Gaurav

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 (...