NuGet 6.2 Release Notes
NuGet distribution vehicles:
NuGet version | Available in Visual Studio version | Available in .NET SDK(s) |
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6.2.0 | Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 | 6.0.3001 |
6.2.1 | Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2.4 | 6.0.3011 |
6.2.2 | Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 | 6.0.3051 |
6.2.4 | N/A | 6.0.3131 |
1 Installed with Visual Studio 2022 with .NET Core workload
- [Security]: Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2023-29337 | NuGet Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - #12653
Note
There is a behavior breaking change on Linux. The temp folder location, where NuGet stores temporary files during its various operations, has changed from /tmp/NuGetScratch
to /tmp/NuGetScratch<username>
. E.g. for user User1, the temp folder will be /tmp/NuGetScratchUser1
.
- [Security]: Microsoft Security Advisory CVE 2022-41032 | .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - #12149
- [Security]: Microsoft Security Advisory CVE 2022-30184 | .NET Information Disclosure Vulnerability - #11883
Add TFM for .NET nanoFramework - #10800
[Feature]: Require package source mapping when using CPM - #11505
[Feature]: Allow overriding a centrally defined package version - #11516
[Feature]: Add IVsNuGetProjectUpdateEvents in Visual Studio, reporting of restore changes for PackageReference based projects. - #9782 - See documentation
Project A referencing package B via AssetTargetFallback, doesn't use that same AssetTargetFallback to pull B's dependency package C - #5957 - More information
DCRs:
Make LocalPackageFileCache methods virtual - #10325
NuGetScratch lock files are not cleaned up - #10679
AutoCompleteResourceV3 does not use the supplied logger - #11272
Add Author to the tooltip for a package in the packages list of PM UI - #11499
Remove unused code NU5049 - #11598
Bugs:
Revert mitigation of missing nuget.org when other tools create nuget.config #11616
Add support for grouping to the InfiniteScrollList, allowing it to be enabled or disabled - #10748
Make the InfiniteScrollList grouping sections expandable and collapsible - #10749
Read and store the transitive origins of a package while reading installed packages from assets file - #10751
Add caching of the transitive dependencies data pulled from the lockfile (assets file) - #10752
Surface the transitive packages and its transitive origins through the search layer - #11486
NuGet.exe list from local packages folder does not work with the AllVersion flag - #4537
Errors due to missing/failing sources are inconsistently shown in solution explorer vs the error list - #7245
Arrow keys in NuGet PM UI Sources editing doesn't change order of persistence - #8315
PackageReference ungracefully handles duplicate Runtime Identifiers in csproj PackageReference - #9290
RestoreIgnoreFailedSources=true still gives warnings - #9765
Introduce a warning for null/empty version range (new or reuse NU1604) - #9767
NuGet again throwing exceptions "authors is required" "description is required", ignoring csproj/nuspec replacement tokens - #9954
[Bug]: Package extraction sometimes fails with "file in use by another process" - #11373
Add progress reporting during package installation - #11432
[Bug]: Reduce string allocations in restore code path - #11475
[Responsiveness] RestoreOperationLogger blocking large number of thread pool threads trying to get access to the output window pane - #11501
[Responsiveness] Package Management UI can consume large number of threads all searching the disk, it needs to run from long running thread - #11570
[Responsiveness] Package Management UI can consume large number of threads all searching the disk (up to 316 threads), use cancellation token at subroutines - #11599
[Bug]: NU1004 in Visual Studio, but not command line (lock files in locked mode) - #11639
[Bug]: new warning for package source mappings doesn't pass a value for the resource string placeholder - #11709
List of commits in this release
Thank you to all the contributors who helped make this NuGet release awesome!
Who | PRs | Issues |
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MarkKharitonov | 4511 | [Feature]: Add support for a dedicated environment variable providing the NuGetScratch path. - #11671 |
mfkl | 4222 | A better cache clean-up and expiration policy - #4980 |
dfederm | 4504 | Static Graph restore uses Project.FromFile + Project.CreateInstance instead of ProjectInstance.FromFile directly - #11675 |
crummel | 4404 | [main] Backport source-build patches to repos. #2708 |
mjolka | 4475 | Very slow restore when using NoWarn in single project that has lots of dependents - #11222 |
marcin-krystianc | 4488 | dotnet integration pack test IL issue - #11454 |
marcin-krystianc | 4025 | Restore fails with NU1106 for solution that uses StaticGraph and CPVM - #10327; [Feature]: Add option to allow versions of transitive dependencies to be overridden - #10389 |
davkean | 4483 | Remove unneeded allocations when parsing assets file #11648 |
reynoldsbd | 4458 | [Bug]: Race Condition Creating Plugin Log Files - #11517 |
tintoy | 4287 | AutoCompleteResourceV3 does not use the supplied logger - #11272 |
davkean | 4440 | Improve VS and NuGet performance by making some methods non-asynchronous - #11816 |
davkean | 4439 | Redundant calls to get VsHierarchy in NuGet VS code - #11817 |
davkean | 4432 | Avoid double-checking for supported projects - #11554 |
dfederm | 4393 | [Bug]: Static graph restore binlog doesn't log task inputs - #11484 |
drewnoakes | 4390 | Show package .props and .targets files in Solution Explorer #7838 |
drewnoakes | 4386 | Solution Explorer search is not showing package contents - #7834 |
marcin-krystianc | 4186 | [Regression]: Performance regression for cold restores in .NET 5.0.x #11031 |
joperator | 4389 | [Bug]: Errors NU3028 and NU3037 when restoring NuGet packages on FreeBSD - #11481 |
AndreiTimisescu | 3779 | Make LocalPackageFileCache methods virtual - #10325 |
tmds | 4123 | NuGetScratch lock files are not cleaned up - #10679 |
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