The NuGet Blog

NuGet.org Terms of Service Update on Unexpected Behavior and Hate Speech

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23

The NuGet Team

In recent years, the .NET open source community and NuGet package registry have become increasingly important for sharing code. However, with the growth of these platforms, there has also been a rise in unexpected behavior and hate speech, which can be harmful and intimidating to many users. We have always been committed to creating a safe and...

Write a high-quality README for NuGet packages

March 2, 2023 Mar 2, 2023 03/2/23

Lynn Dai

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

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Jon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev

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 ...

Introducing Search By Target Framework on NuGet.org

February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23

Jon Douglas, Advay Tandon

Last year, we brought a new feature to improve the way you assess target framework compatibility of a NuGet package through a new "Frameworks" tab. Today, we are announcing a new feature that will allow you to search by a target framework on NuGet.org. Here’s how it looks: The first thing you might notice is that there is a new “...

Announcing NuGet 6.4 – Signed, Central, Delivered

November 8, 2022 Nov 8, 2022 11/8/22

Jon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev

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 ...

NuGet Season of Giving

September 30, 2022 Sep 30, 2022 09/30/22

Jon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev, Camila Thompson

NuGet has gone through a lot of changes over the last 10 years. From the package manager console, standalone NuGet.exe, and integration of NuGet into the .NET SDK, we have always relied on the open source community to help evolve and advance NuGet to meet the needs of the .NET ecosystem. Since NuGet has been on GitHub, the repository has ...

Announcing NuGet 6.3 – Transitive Dependencies, Floating Versions, and Re-enabling Signed Package Verification

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22

Jon Douglas, Nikolche Kolev

NuGet 6.3 is included in Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6.0 out of the box. You can also download NuGet 6.3 for Windows, macOS, and Linux as a standalone executable. NuGet 6.3 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 ...

Introducing Transitive Dependencies in Visual Studio

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22

Jon Douglas, Jean-Pierre Briedé

We heard from you that direct dependencies are easy to track, but that you struggle with tracking transitive dependencies. We want to make that easier for the day-to-day management of your NuGet packages in Visual Studio. To help you track transitive dependencies and remediate vulnerabilities quickly with SDK-style projects, we are ...

HTTPS everywhere

August 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 08/9/22

Jon Douglas

Safety guaranteed As an ongoing effort to make HTTPS everywhere a reality for NuGet, we have taken a number of steps to help protect your everyday package management experiences. Earlier this year, a security fact sheet from The White House reinforced companies to take action to secure our software supply chains. HTTPS and SSL not only ...

Quickly Map Your NuGet Packages to Sources

May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 05/4/22

Erick Yondon

Package Source Mapper When we introduced Package Source Mapping late last year, we noticed a certain challenge to make onboarding to using the feature easier. Could there be a way for us to automatically generate a NuGet.config for you based on your project’s known packages and sources? We started to develop a tool that does just that for ...