The NuGet Blog

The 1st Billion

May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 05/10/16

Harikrishna Menon

Today, NuGet.org reached one billion downloads. This is a momentous achievement for our users and the community of package authors who continue to use and build new libraries that is the cornerstone of .NET adoption. We want to take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to the millions of our users who made this milestone possible. With ...

Introducing The NuGet Beta Channel

May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 05/2/16

Harikrishna Menon

Today, we would like to introduce you to the NuGet Beta Channel for the Visual Studio 2015 NuGet Package Manager. In the last 2 months, we have been focusing on improving the quality of the package management experience in Visual Studio 2015 and we have released over 3 consecutive versions of the package manager with added features, improved ...

Announcing NuGet 3.4.3

April 22, 2016 Apr 22, 2016 04/22/16

Harikrishna Menon

Today, we are releasing the 3.4.3 RTM version of the NuGet Visual Studio 2015 extension and the Windows x86 commandline executable. We continue to heavily invest in improving the quality of NuGet scenarios in Visual Studio and commandline. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we will review ...

Announcing NuGet 3.4.2

April 9, 2016 Apr 9, 2016 04/9/16

Harikrishna Menon

We have listened to the feedback from the community, and we have tried our very best to turn around quickly and address this feedback. Our primary focus for 3.4.2 have been around improving the quality and performance of the product. The complete list of issues fixed in this version is available on GitHub. In this post, we'll review the ...

Introducing NuGet 3.4

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16

Jeffrey Fritz

The NuGet team is happy to introduce version 3.4 and 3.4.1 of the NuGet clients for Visual Studio 2015. We shipped v3.4 with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and immediately followed that with the 3.4.1 release to address a small set of issues that were identified after Visual Studio bundled the NuGet 3.4 release. There were three main areas that ...

Announcing NuGet 3.4 RC

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16

Jeffrey Fritz

After several months of measuring, tuning, and testing, the NuGet team would like to announce version 3.4 RC of the NuGet clients for Visual Studio 2015 and the command-line. There were three main areas that the team focused on for this version: We think you'll find these updates a welcome change that improves your day-to-day ...

Switching from WCF OData to Web API

February 16, 2016 Feb 16, 2016 02/16/16

Maarten Balliauw

One of the less visible changes since we released NuGet 3.0 is that NuGet uses a new server "API v3". This new API is designed around high availability for critical scenarios such as package restore and installing packages. API v3 will be the way forward for NuGet while keeping "API v2" around for older NuGet clients. We will be making a big ...

NuGet ContentFiles Demystified

January 26, 2016 Jan 26, 2016 01/26/16

Jeffrey Fritz

Updated - Feb 26, 2015: Thanks to Jared Barneck for some suggested edits to add some steps to the sample NuGet creation process In NuGet 3.3, the feature was introduced to support project.json managed projects and packages that are indirectly referenced in a project. This was an important change because it brings the ability to deliver ...

NuGet Targets for Project.Json now open source

January 19, 2016 Jan 19, 2016 01/19/16

Jeffrey Fritz

A question that comes up from time to time is: how does Visual Studio 2015 add references when using project.json files in conjunction with a csproj without modifying the csproj file? This is a good question and demonstrates some of our strategy to help make NuGet easier to integrate into project systems without having to teach NuGet how to ...

Accelerate your NuGet.Server

January 13, 2016 Jan 13, 2016 01/13/16

Maarten Balliauw

Since its inception, NuGet supports setting up custom package sources. There's the default NuGet Gallery, there's third-party NuGet hosting (see the NuGet Ecosystem), we can use local directories on our hard drive or a network UNC share (like ) and there's the NuGet.Server package that we can use to create our own NuGet server. Developers and...