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NuGet 5.4 Release Notes

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5.4.0 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 3.1.1001

1Installed with Visual Studio 2019 with .NET Core workload

Summary: What's New in 5.4

  • Faster solution load time - Overhead running NuGet code during first solution load has been reduced via partial-ngen to reduce JIT cost - #6007

  • New helper function - given a list of package ids and versions, get the likely top level packages. - #8316

  • New nuget/setup-nuget action for installing and configuring NuGet.exe on GitHub Actions. - #8818

Issues fixed in this release

Bugs

  • Plugin: Logging time accuracy is off on linux/Mac - #8747

  • Disposing of a plugin can sometimes throw and fail the whole operation. - #8732

  • Stop displaying version duplicates in allowed and blocked versions list in PMUI - #8679

  • Lock File not properly generated - framework ordering should not impact the restore with lockedmode - #8645

  • LockFile validation fails for projects with <RuntimeIdentifiers> set in SDK 3.0.100 - #8639

  • Signing Validation will now properly reject signatures with timestamps which have 2 values under the same OID - #8629

  • Update the license list - #8544

DCRs

  • Onboarding diagnostic files to IFeedbackDiagnosticFileProvider - #8535

List of all issues fixed in this release - 5.4