The NuGet Blog

The latest news, updates, and insights from the NuGet team

Write a high-quality README for NuGet packages

Based on our recent customer interviews and surveys, one of the top problems that package consumers face is insufficient package documentation, such as README, changelog, examples, and API reference. On the other hand, package authors may struggle with best practices for creating a clear and concise README. Our goal is to improve the overall ...

Announcing NuGet 6.5 – The Sweetest Way to Manage Your Packages

NuGet 6.5 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.5 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. Tired of the sour taste of managing packages? NuGet 6.5 brings a new flavor of seamless central package management, simple package source mapping management, useful JSON machine ...

Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered

NuGet 6.4 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.4 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.4 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 ...

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

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 ...

IntelliCode Package Suggestions for NuGet in Visual Studio

Building on Visual Studio’s robust IntelliCode experience for .NET, we’re excited to introduce NuGet IntelliCode Package Suggestions in Visual Studio 16.10! IntelliCode Package Suggestions use your project’s context, such as installed packages and project type, to suggest packages to enhance your workflow! IntelliCode AI-assistance has ...

Performance and Polish with NuGet 5.9

NuGet 5.9 is a great release that brings a refined experience to everything package management. We’ve added a bunch of exciting quality of life improvements while also bringing you a more performant package management experience. We’re excited to see you use NuGet 5.9 & include it in your toolset to build amazing things with .NET.