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NuGet 6.8 Release Notes

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NuGet version Available in Visual Studio version Available in .NET SDK(s)
6.8 Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 8.0.1001
6.8.1 Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 8.0.1021

1 Installed with Visual Studio 2022 with any .NET workload

Summary: What's New in 6.8.1

  • [Security]: Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2024-0057 | NuGet Client Security Feature bypass Vulnerability - #12653

Summary: What's New in 6.8

  • NuGetAudit - notifications for package vulnerabilities

    • Warn when vulnerabilities are detected during PackageReference restore - #12289
    • Show vulnerabilities in transitive packages for PackageReference type projects in PMUI - #8756
    • Show an infobar in Solution Explorer for any detected security vulnerabilities in a project or solution - #12398

  • Add allowInsecureConnections property for package sources in NuGet.config, allowing opt-out of "HTTPs everywhere" warnings - #12786

  • Create Package Source Mappings during Installation/update through PM UI - #11366

  • Conditional package updating is respected in Visual Studio #5420

  • Add protocolVersion argument to nuget source add - #9170

  • Signed package verification is enabled by default on Linux in .NET 8 SDK - #11262

Known issues

  • NuGetAuditMode doesn't work for SDK style projects in VS 17.8 - #13003

NuGet SDK breaking changes

The following is a list of breaking changes in the NuGet SDK. If you are using NuGet tooling, such as Visual Studio or .NET SDK, you are not affected.

  • Remove the NuGetOperationType from NuGet.PackageManagement, use NuGetProjectActionType instead - #12866

  • Changing PackageVulnerabilityInfo severity from int to enum - #12781

  • Add nullable annotations to NuGet.Common - #12775

  • Obsolete Clone methods on immutable types - #12669

Issues fixed in this release

  • NuGetAudit should not warn when no vulnerability data is available - #12875

  • NuGetAudit: read vulnerability files with System.Text.Json - #12855

  • PackageSourceMapping API doesn't follow best practices for returning lists - #12794

  • Signing: enable X509Chain.Build(...) retry behavior by default - #12592

  • NuGetAudit should check direct PackageReferences by default - #12590

  • NuGetAudit should be on by default with the .NET 8 SDK - #12568

  • Remove "Checking compatibility..." log messages from RestoreTask - #10383

  • 16.10: remove package source 1.0 service. remove obsolete APIs (in nuget.configuration that we added in 16.8) - #10015

  • Add more logging to NuGetSdkResolver - #11445

  • Upgrade Newtonsoft.Json reference to 13.0.3 - #12858

  • Add an API for checking vulnerability during packages.config restore - #12852

  • VS Options add/remove package source icons aren't using VS2022 styling - #12840

  • Package Source Mapping utility always appends package ID - #12839

  • NuGetSdkResolver loads global.json multiple times during project load - #12819

  • dotnet list package doesn't list requested versions when using CPM - #12765

  • Fix case sensitivity of runtime dependency sets during merge - #12757

  • dotnet list package errors with Object reference not set to an instance of an object - #12755

  • Improve hashing and equality allocations/performance - #12746

  • NuGetAudit severity bugs - #12743

  • Lock contention thread pool issues caused by LoadSettings not passing settingsLoadingContext to LoadSettingsForSpecificConfigs - #12737

  • NuGetAuditMode all warns about package versions that were upgraded (rejected) - #12730

  • An error “unable to find metadata of PackageName.1.0.0” occurs when installing package with “packages.config” format - #12723

  • WalkTreeRejectNodesOfRejectedNodes constantly triggering resizes of its tracker collection - #12719

  • Reduce RuntimeGraph allocations as it's immutable - #12717

  • Heavy allocations in NuGet.Commands.RestoreRunner.ExecuteAndCommitAsync|nuget.packaging.dll!NuGet.RuntimeModel.RuntimeDescription - #12714

  • Heavy allocations in NuGet.Commands.RestoreRunner.ExecuteAndCommitAsync|nuget.versioning.dll!NuGet.Versioning.VersionFormatter.Format - #12707

  • Remove allocations from PackageSource.Source setter - #12692

  • ContentItemCollection.FindBestItemGroup boxing enumerator - #12689

  • FrameworkNameProvider.GetVersionString boxing enumerator - #12685

  • NuGet.Client allocates many instances of comparers - #12680

  • GetContentFileFolderRelativeToFramework allocates too much - #12668

  • Deprecated info will flash for less than one second in the right penal when clicking package “Microsoft.Net.Http” with a non-deprecated version in the package list - #12661

  • CreateGraphNode has a high number of allocations - #12641

  • The vulnerable label doesn’t show in the “version” dropdown box of “Browse” tab when searching for vulnerable packages - #12623

  • NuGet.Commands.LockFileBuilder KeyNotFoundException Exception - #12464

  • A PackageDownload without a version causes a NullReferenceException - #12212

  • [Bug]: View License dialog does not display license content - #12060

  • [Bug Bash] Only the embedded license content of the latest version can be loaded correctly in PM UI when there are multiple versions in the same package from local feeds - #10670

List of commits in this release

Community contributions

Thank you to all the contributors who helped make this NuGet release awesome!

  • drewnoakes
    • 5311 Null annotate PackageDependencyInfo
    • 5310 Reduce size of LockFileTargetLibrary
    • 5304 Improve hashing and equality allocations/performance
    • 5267 Reduce allocations in NuGet.DependencyResolver.Tracker
    • 5232 Reduce allocations in RuntimeGraph
    • 5279 Reduce allocations in VersionRangeFormatter
    • 5248 Reduce allocations in RuntimeDescription and RuntimeDependencySet
    • 5269 Don't box enumerators in ContentItemCollection
    • 5250 Don't allocate temporaries in FrameworkNameProvider.GetVersionString
    • 5271 Remove allocations from PackageSource.Source setter
  • MichaelSimons
    • 5418 Fix source-build CI regression
    • 5414 Remove unnecessary source-build patch
  • mthalman
    • 5385 Update Newtonsoft.Json from 13.0.1 to 13.0.3
  • timheuer
    • 5375 Update VS Options add/remove package source icons to VS2022 styling
  • dotnokato
    • 5002 CLI: Add -protocolVersion option to nuget sources add/update commands
  • oleksandr-didyk
    • 5352 allow empty sb intermediate
  • drolevar
    • 5346 Add .vdproj to the exclusion list
  • Greybird
    • 5335 Remove projects from list package output
  • NikolaMilosavljevic
    • 5322 Fix incorrect package version property for System.Security.Cryptograp…
  • vishavpandhi
    • 5283 [DartLab B2B feature] dropname for base VS should be retrieved using the baseline.
  • v-chayan
    • 5278 Remove redundant SourceBuildTrimNetFrameworkTargets property
  • marcin-krystianc
    • 5293 DetectAndMarkAmbiguousCentralTransitiveDependencies should be exhaustive and deterministic
  • Erarndt
    • 5218 Reduce some allocations in CreateGraphNode.