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NuGet.Server 2.11.3 now available

December 21, 2016 Dec 21, 2016 12/21/16
Jon Chu
Today we are releasing an update to the NuGet.Server package. The purpose of this update is to address a bug that enabled NuGet.Server to be installed on projects that target .NET Framework versions less than 4.6. Issue addressed Previously, there was a bug in NuGet.Server 2.11.2 (3257, 3406) that incorrectly considered the package to be ...

Announcing NuGet 4.0 RC

November 21, 2016 Nov 21, 2016 11/21/16
Karan Nandwani
NuGet 4.0 RC for Visual Studio 2017 is focused on adding support for .NET Core scenarios, addressing key customer feedback and improving performance in a variety of scenarios. This release brings several improvements like support for PackageReference, NuGet commands as MSBuild targets, background package restore, and more. This post gives an ...

Announcing NuGet 3.5 RTM

October 27, 2016 Oct 27, 2016 10/27/16
Harikrishna Menon
NuGet 3.5 RTM for Visual Studio 2015 and nuget.exe provide quality improvements, performance improvements, features and new target frameworks like netstandard and netcoreapp. Downloads All NuGet downloads are available on https://nuget.org/downloads. NuGet.exe 3.5 RTM is not marked as the latest yet in the download page or uploaded as a ...

New experience for NuGet Documentation

September 20, 2016 Sep 20, 2016 09/20/16
Karan Nandwani
Last month, we launched a preview of the revamped Nuget docs experience. We made a number of improvements: We would like to thank you for trying out the preview and giving us valuable feedback. We have incorporated your feedback and ironed out some wrinkles we found along the way. Today, we are going live with the new experience on ...

Changes to Expiring API Keys

August 25, 2016 Aug 25, 2016 08/25/16
Harikrishna Menon
In June, we published a blog post announcing Expiring API Keys. We received a lot of great feedback from the community about it. In retrospect, we did not do a great job explaining the motivation and reasoning for this security measure to the community. This post goes into more detail about why we introduced Expiring API Keys, the immediate ...

The path towards better documentation

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
Karan Nandwani
Update 9/20 (11:00 A.M PST): The revamped NuGet Docs experience is now live on docs.nuget.org. Read more about it here - New experience for NuGet Documentation docs.nuget.org is the authoritative guide on everything NuGet. It is used as reference by nearly 180k developers with over 500k page views a month. Summary of the most consistent ...

Announcing NuGet 3.5 RC

August 11, 2016 Aug 11, 2016 08/11/16
Harikrishna Menon
NuGet 3.5 Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2015, nuget.exe and NuGet 2.12 RTM for Visual Studio 2013 releases provide quality improvements, performance improvements, .NET Core CLI support, and new target frameworks like netstandard and netcoreapp for our users. Downloads All NuGet downloads are available on http://nuget.org/downloads. New...

NuGet API key expiration

June 22, 2016 Jun 22, 2016 06/22/16
Maarten Balliauw
Update 6/22 (2:15 P.M PST): We have a lot of feedback coming in from the community on this topic. This change will not have any impact for another 90 days at the minimum. We are reviewing your feedback and will discuss further how to achieve our goal of improved security of NuGet.org. We will have an update within the next 45 days. To continue...

Consolidated REST API deployed

May 19, 2016 May 19, 2016 05/19/16
Maarten Balliauw
A few weeks back, we deployed our consolidated REST API powering NuGet.org and the NuGet client experience in Visual Studio. An invisible change for our users, but a big change for the NuGet team. This consolidated REST API lays the foundation of our future work on the server side of NuGet. In this post, we want to expand a little on the ...