NuGet 1.5 Release Notes
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NuGet 1.5 was released on August 30, 2011.
When creating a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project template, the jQuery script libraries included in the project are actually placed there by installing NuGet packages.
The ASP.NET MVC 3 project template includes a set of NuGet packages that get installed when the project template is invoked. This ability to include NuGet packages with a project template is now a feature of NuGet that any project template can now take advantage of.
For more details about this feature, read this blog post by the developer of the feature.
Added a new <references />
element used to explicitly specify which assemblies within the
the package should be referenced.
For example, if you add the following:
<references>
<reference file="xunit.dll" />
<reference file="xunit.extensions.dll" />
</references>
Then only the xunit.dll
and xunit.extensions.dll
will be referenced from the appropriate
framework/profile subfolder
of the lib
folder even if there are other assemblies in the folder.
If this element is omitted, then the usual behavior applies, which is to reference every assembly
in the lib
folder.
What is this feature used for?
This feature supports design-time only assemblies. For example, when using Code Contracts, the
contract assemblies need to be next to the runtime assemblies that they augment so that Visual
Studio can find them, but the contract assemblies should not actually be referenced by the project
and should not be copied into the bin
folder.
Likewise, the feature can be used to for unit test frameworks such as XUnit which need its tools assemblies to be located next to the runtime assemblies, but excluded from project references.
The <file>
element within a .nuspec
file can be used to include a specific file or a set of files
using a wildcard. When using a wildcard, there's no way to exclude a specific subset of the included
files. For example, suppose you want all text files within a folder except a specific one.
<files>
<file src="*.txt" target="content\docs" exclude="admin.txt" />
</files>
Use semicolons to specify multiple files.
<files>
<file src="*.txt" target="content\docs" exclude="admin.txt;log.txt" />
</files>
Or use a wild card to exclude a set of files such as all backup files
<files>
<file src="tools\*.*" target="tools" exclude="*.bak" />
</files>
When uninstalling a package with dependencies, NuGet prompts, allowing the removal of a package's dependencies along with the package.
The Get-Package
command now supports a -ProjectName
parameter. So the command
Get-Package –ProjectName A
will list all packages installed in project A.
When using NuGet behind a proxy that requires authentication, NuGet will now prompt for proxy credentials. Entering credentials allows NuGet to connect to the remote repository.
NuGet now supports connecting to private repositories that require basic or NTLM authentication.
Support for Digest authentication will be added in a future release.
We've made several performance improvements to the nuget.org gallery to make package listing and searching faster.
In the Solution-level dialog, when prompting for what projects to install, we only show projects that are compatible with the selected package.
NuGet packages now include support for release notes. The release notes only show up when viewing Updates for a package, so it doesn't make sense to add them to your first release.
To add release notes to a package, use the new <releaseNotes />
metadata element in your
NuSpec file.
The .nuspec
file now allows empty <files />
element, which tells nuget.exe
not to include any file in the package.
NuGet 1.5 had a total of 107 work items fixed. 103 of those were marked as bugs.
For a full list of work items fixed in NuGet 1.5, please view the [NuGet Issue Tracker for this release](http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/list/advanced?keyword=&status=All&type=All&priority=All&release=NuGet%201.5&assignedTo=All&component=All&sortField=Summary&sortDirection=Descending&page=0)
.
[Issue 1273](http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/1273)
: Madepackages.config
more version control friendly by sorting packages alphabetically and removing extra whitespace.[Issue 844](http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/844)
: Version numbers are now normalized so thatInstall-Package 1.0
works on a package with the version1.0.0
.[Issue 1060](http://nuget.codeplex.com/workitem/1060)
: When creating a package using nuget.exe, the-Version
flag overrides the<version />
element.