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NuGet 3.4-RC Release Notes

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NuGet 3.3 Release Notes | NuGet 3.4 Release Notes

NuGet 3.4-RC was released March 3, 2016 alongside the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC and was built with a few tenets in minds:

  • Cross-Platform support
  • Performance improvements
  • Minor UI improvements

The following features are available in this RC, with more planned for the 3.4 final release.

New Features

  • NuGet clients now support gzip content-encoding from repositories
  • Support for PDBs from packages in xproj projects
  • Support for iOS and Android build actions in the contentFiles element
  • Support for the netstandard and netstandardapp framework monikers

New User Interface Features

  • Significant performance improvements especially on the Installed, Updates, and Consolidate tabs
  • Installed and Updates tabs are now sorted alphabetically
  • Added a Refresh button that allows a search to be refreshed

Updates and Improvements

  • Packages referenced in project.json that have a floating version will not update on every build. Instead, they will update only when forced to restore, clean, rebuild, or modify project.json.
  • nuget.org repository sources are no longer forced into a project configuration when you use the NuGet configuration UI.
  • NuGet no longer restores packages in shared projects nor writes a lock file.
  • We've improved network failure and retry handling for unreachable or slow-to-respond servers.
  • Keyboard and mouse behaviors are improved in the Visual Studio Package Manager UI.
  • We now support the latest project.json schema in DNX.

Known Issues

We continue to track issues on our GitHub issues list which can be found at: https://github.com/nuget/home/issues