Announcement

Celebrating 50 Million Downloads of Cake.Tool🎉

Published
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Category
Announcement
Author
devlead

We are thrilled to announce that Cake.Tool has reached an incredible milestone of 50 million downloads on NuGet.org! This accomplishment wouldn't have been possible without the contributions of over 300 individuals and the unwavering support of our users. Join us as we reflect on the journey of Cake, featuring 123 releases and over 300 third-party community add-ins.

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Sunsetting of .NET Framework and .NET Core runners in Cake 2.0

Published
Sunday, 10 October 2021
Category
Announcement
Author
Pascal Berger

Note that the following explanations are only about required platforms to run Cake. Cake will continue to support building of .NET Framework and .NET Core projects.

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Cake NuGet Packages: Identity and Trust

Published
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Category
Announcement
Author
augustoproiete

The NuGet team at Microsoft introduced a concept known as "Package ID prefix reservation" for packages published on nuget.org, which allows developers to reserve particular package ID prefixes with a specific account/owner and offers a number of features that are described in detail on Microsoft's docs.

One of these features is that packages with a reserved prefix include a visual indicator for NuGet package consumers to identify that the packages they are consuming originate from package owners that have reserved the prefix.

Cake package visual indicator on NuGet Gallery

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Intellisense improvements in Visual Studio Code

Published
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Category
Announcement
Author
mholo65

In case you missed it, intellisense support for Cake files in Visual Studio Code was announced a couple of months ago. Since then, we have actively been working on improving it, and the v1.14.0 release of C# for Visual Studio Code comes with some Cake specific improvements we'd like to share with you. In the v1.28.0 release notes for Omnisharp-Roslyn we can read the following:

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Intellisense in Visual Studio Code

Published
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Category
Announcement
Author
mholo65

As some of you might have noticed, we have been working on getting intellisense working for Cake files in Visual Studio Code. Today we are happy to announce that the OmniSharp project have merged our pull requests (#932 and #1681) and released v1.13.0 of the C# extension for Visual Studio Code, which includes support for Cake. In addition to this, we have released a new tool, called bakery, which is the script analysis and code generation engine making this possible. More information about bakery and how everything works behind the scenes are coming in an upcoming blog.

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