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Requiring two-factor authentication on NuGet.org

February 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022 02/22/22

Claire Novotny

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

Announcing NuGet 6.0 – Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My!

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Jon Douglas

NuGet 6.0 - Source Mapping, Package Vulnerabilities, Faster Solution Load, Oh My! NuGet 6.0 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.0 is one of many releases in our .NET unification journey. Our NuGet tooling helps ...

Introducing the New NuGet.org Package Details Page

September 23, 2021 Sep 23, 2021 09/23/21

Jiachen Jiang

Today, we are excited to announce a massive makeover for the package details page on NuGet.org. We built NuGet.org to help .NET developers find packages that will accelerate their projects, and this latest update has changes meant to help package consumers and authors alike.

Introducing Package Source Mapping

September 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021 09/15/21

Nikolche Kolev

We're happy to announce the first preview release of Package Source Mapping with Visual Studio 2022 preview 4! Package Source Mapping gives you fine-grained control of where your packages come from by mapping every package in your solution to a target package source.

Add a README to Your NuGet Package

May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021 05/6/21

Christopher Gill

Today, we're excited to announce that you can pack a `README.md` file in your NuGet package and have it fully rendered on NuGet.org!

Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet!

January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21

Christopher Gill

NuGet 1.0 was released on January 13th, 2011 – 10 years and 4 major version releases ago. Since then, NuGet.org has grown to host a large and vibrant package ecosystem with over 230 thousand unique packages.

Getting Started With NuGet 5.8

November 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 11/13/20

Jon Douglas

NuGet 5.8 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.

View dependent packages on NuGet.org

August 20, 2020 Aug 20, 2020 08/20/20

Christopher Gill

We're excited to announce that you can now view dependent packages in the new Used By section on NuGet.org, yet another major improvement to the package evaluation experience!

Advanced search on NuGet.org

August 7, 2020 Aug 7, 2020 08/7/20

Mohamed Riad Gahlouz

We are excited to announce that NuGet.org now supports one of our top customer asks - advanced search! You can now use a multitude of sorting and filtering criteria to help find the best NuGet packages for your needs!

Deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on NuGet.org – Stage 1

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

The NuGet Team

In this post, we will go into more details and a specific timeline for Stage 1 i.e. temporarily removing support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on NuGet.org. The goal is to help you identify systems that may be affected and will give you an opportunity to take action before we permanently remove support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in April 2020.

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