NuGet 5.10 Release Notes

NuGet distribution vehicles:

¹ Installed with Visual Studio 2019 with .NET Core workload

Summary: What's New in 5.10

• Signing: implement dotnet trusted-signers command - #8053

• Make default validation disabled on Linux, but enabled by default on Windows - #10713

• Add an ENV Variable for Package Signing Verification on .NET 5+ Linux/MAC - #10742

• Improve install new package performance for large solutions - #10166

• Add the project type nfproj to the list of supportedProjectExtensions for Nuget CLI. - #10562

Issues fixed in this release

• Suppress the <requireLicenseAcceptance> element when packing a project - #5133

• [CPVM] preview warning should be shown on dotnet cli - #10226

• Update the background and foreground color tokens of the PMUI to CommonDocumentColors - #10608

• [Bug Bash] Error “operation canceled by user” show in Error List window when switching between tabs quickly in PM UI - #10671

• PM UI: Improve package installation performance on the solution level - #10210

• Replace GetService with GetServiceAsync everywhere in NuGet.Clients - #3784

• NuGet.exe pack performance problem with .. relative path - #5016

• The performance of "nuget pack" decreases with increasing levels in the source paths - #5706

• NuGet doesn't error when packaging nuspec with duplicate files. - #6941

• NuGet pack "The DateTimeOffset specified cannot be converted into a Zip file timestamp" - #7001

• Timestamps of file of packed package is shifted by the timezone - #7395

• NU1004 should contain more actionable information - #7696

• [Bug Bash][Test Failure] The empty/malformed lock file should not be updated when running ‘dotnet restore --use-lock-file --locked-mode’ - #8640

• NuGetVersionRange allows logically incorrect ranges to be parsed - #9145

• PM UI can’t show distinguishable background color between selected and hovered package sources - #9538

• Checkbox for selecting projects to install to isn't being read by screen reader - #9578

• Details Pane Versions Dropdown default selection should be Installed/LatestStable on Installed/Updates tabs - #9887

• Remove workaround account for some .NET 5 SDKs report TargetPlatformMoniker of ,Version= - #9913

• dotnet nuget verify is too quiet - #10316

• VersionRange cannot parse single-digit ranges - #10342

• VS Solution manager throws null exception for during debugging - #10352

• Move CLI exception messages to String Resource files - #10392

• Remove dead code (TabItemButtonAutomationPeer) - #10435

• Update context menu should scroll to first selected item - #10498

• Solution PMUI Details has overlapping horizontal bar - #10533

• Signing: primary signature details not displayed when certificate expired and timestamp untrusted - #10535

• Having no enabled sources prevents the PM UI from showing - #10541

• Package Metadata (details, deprecation) are sometimes not pulled from nuget.org in CodeSpaces - #10549

• PMUI initialization fails with exception during debug session - #10559

• nuget restore results in a package integrity check failure on big endian system - #10567

• FormatException is thrown instead of PackagingException - #10595

• CPVM - Concurrency issues in the graph walking algorithm - #10598

• Add PMC powershell version telemetry - #10609

• Improve NuGetVersion sort performance - #10611

• Trusted-signers Add has inconsistent arguments - #10647

• Vs2019 v16.9.0: Switching tabs in NuGet Package Manager from "Updates" to "Installed" doesn't update the frame. - #10654

• Remove the "v" from the version number in PMUI - #10677

• INuGetProjectService.GetInstalledPackagesAsync throws before receiving CPS project system nomination - #10681

• Embedded Icons cause Access Denied from source "Microsoft Visual Studio Offline Packages" on Browse tab - #10687

• INuGetProjectService.GetInstalledPackagesAsync throws when MSBuildProjectExtensionsPath is not set - #10739

• "dotnet nuget remove source nuget.org" doesn't work the first time - #10745

• Nuget blocks a threadpool thread in an async method making a synchronous call to the UI thread - #10775

• PackageLoadContext.GetInstalledAndTransitivePackagesAsync is dead code and hurting performance - #10790

• Use embedded icon in NuGet SDK packages - #10795

• Update the SPDX license list - #10806

List of all issues fixed in this release - 5.10

List of commits in this release - 5.10.0

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