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NuGet.org package publishing workflow – behind the scenes

February 1, 2018 Feb 1, 2018 02/1/18
Anand Gaurav
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

September 14, 2017 Sep 14, 2017 09/14/17
Rido
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?

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Anand Gaurav
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 ...

NuGet Fall 2017 Roadmap

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17
Unni Ravindranathan
Over the past 6 months, the NuGet team has been working hard to ensure the growth of the .NET ecosystem. NuGet has grown significantly during this timeframe: NuGet.org is closing in on 4 billion packages served (up from a billion packages just a year ago), we have enabled new .NET scenarios such as .NET Standard 2.0, and have improved the ...

NuGet.org Gets a Facelift

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17
Jon Chu
It’s been a long time coming, and today we are excited to announce some big changes coming to NuGet.org. With almost 3 million monthly page views, NuGet.org is the gateway for .NET developers to find packages that accelerate their projects. However, as a package management website, so much more can be done. We decided to give NuGet.org a ...

NuGet Package Identity and Trust

April 17, 2017 Apr 17, 2017 04/17/17
Daniel Jacobson
Update on 10/16/2017: Package ID Prefix Reservation is now live. The documentation can be found here. We want to start this post with a huge thanks to you, the NuGet community. Over the last several months we have been talking to many of you to get feedback on NuGet package identity and trust. We’ve learned so much from you and we hope that...

NuGet is now fully integrated into MSBuild

March 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017 03/16/17
Karan Nandwani
In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways - packages.config and project.json - each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core, we have improved the NuGet package management experience by introducing the PackageReference feature in MSBuild. PackageReference brings new and ...

Introducing scoped API keys

February 2, 2017 Feb 2, 2017 02/2/17
Anand Gaurav
Update 2/14 (05:00 PM PST): This feature is now live! Login to your nuget account and expand the API Keys section to see the new experience. Since last year, we have been working on several fronts to advance NuGet as a secure environment for package distribution. This post describes an experience that will allow you to have better control of ...

NuGet – Ending Windows XP support

January 19, 2017 Jan 19, 2017 01/19/17
Karan Nandwani
At NuGet, we are constantly improving our security. One of the steps we are taking is to move our HTTPS end points to meet industry standards for algorithms and protocols. This means that connecting to nuget.org services from machines that don’t support modern cipher algorithms will no longer be supported (such as TLS 1.0 support in Windows ...