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Version 5.1.0 of Cake has been released. Take it for a spin and give us feedback on our discussion board.

This release includes new features, improvements and bug fixes to both Cake Scripting and Cake Frosting since the Cake v5.0.0 release! 🚀 🍰

Highlights of this release

• Add Woodpecker CI Support
• Cake.Testing.Xunit.v3
• Improved script caching behavior
• New Aliases
  • DotNetSlnRemove
• Dependency and SDK updates

Contributors

This release was made possible thanks to the Cake team and the contribution of these awesome members of the Cake community listed below:

• antonysmith-mandogroup
• ap0llo
• devlead
• GeertvanHorrik
• gep13
• kapsiR
• Marusyk
• paulomorgado
• SimonCropp
• tstewart65

Full details of everything that was included in this release can be seen below.

Issues

As part of this release we had 93 issues closed.

Feature

• #4539 Add Woodpecker CI Support.
• #4436 Add support for capturing MSBuild properties, items and target results.
• #4431 Add property for GitLab's "Pipeline Source" to GitLabCIBuildInfo.
• #4418 GitLab Server url should be available in GitLabCIServerInfo.
• #4416 Make Merge Request source and target branch available in GitLabCIPullRequestInfo.
• #4401 Add DotNetSlnRemove alias for dotnet sln remove command.

Improvement

• #4584 Update Spectre.Console to 0.51.1.
• #4583 Update Newtonsoft.Json to 13.0.4.
• #4582 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.9.
• #4581 Update System.* to 9.0.9.
• #4549 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.Net90 to 1.8.3.
• #4548 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.Net80 to 1.8.3.
• #4547 Update Autofac to 8.4.0.
• #4546 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.14.0.
• #4545 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.8.
• #4544 Update System.Reflection.Metadata to 9.0.8.
• #4543 Update System.Collections.Immutable to 9.0.8.
• #4542 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.8.
• #4529 Update System.Reflection.Metadata 9.0.7.
• #4528 Update System.Collections.Immutable to 9.0.7.
• #4527 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.7.
• #4526 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.7.
• #4523 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.12.1.
• #4510 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.12.0.
• #4509 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.Net* to 1.8.2.
• #4505 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.Net* to 1.8.1.
• #4497 Cake.Testing.Xunit.v3 should not reference xunit.v3.
• #4493 Update Spectre.Console to 0.50.0.
• #4492 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 4.14.0.
• #4491 Update System.Reflection.Metadata to 9.0.5.
• #4490 Update System.Collections.Immutable to 9.0.5.
• #4489 Update Autofac to 8.3.0.
• #4488 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.5.
• #4483 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.5.
• #4482 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.11.0.
• #4481 Update NuGet.* to 6.14.0.
• #4471 Improve script caching behavior.
• #4440 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.Net80 to 1.8.0.
• #4426 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 4.12.0.
• #4425 Update NuGet.* to 6.12.1.
• #4421 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.3.0.
• #4420 Update Autofac to 8.2.0.
• #4412 NuGet 6.9 renamed no-cache to no-http-cache and deprecated the old setting name.
• #4407 SignTool missing the /kc and /csp parameters. .
• #4399 Refactor DotNetAliases: Extract methods into a separate partial class.

Bug

• #4478 Failed to install addin when running from Windows powershell.exe.
• #4475 Script execution does not always show a report summary.
• #4410 AzurePipelinesPullRequestInfo fails to detect if build is running in the context of a GitHub Pull Request.
• #4286 DotNetToolRunner doesn't support empty space at tool path.

We're excited to announce the release of Cake.Sdk 5.0.25257.82-beta, a minor preview release that brings improvements to performance, the debugging experience, and native .NET CLI publish support.

The biggest improvement in this release is that dotnet publish now works with Cake.Sdk. This means you can now create self-contained precompiled binaries and containers, which can provide substantial performance gains when the same code is executed multiple times across different stages.

A new preview version of Cake.Sdk has been released! Version 5.0.25253.70-beta brings compatibility with .NET 10 RC1 and introduces powerful new features for modular build script organization. 🚀 🍰

A new preview version of Cake.Sdk has been released! Version 5.0.25225.53-beta brings compatibility with .NET 10 Preview 7. 🚀 🍰

We're excited to announce the preview of Cake.Sdk, a new way to get the Cake tool scripting experience in regular .NET console applications! This brings you the stellar experience of the new "dotnet run app.cs" feature (requires .NET 10), while also working seamlessly with .NET 8 and 9 for regular csproj projects. 🚀 🍰

Here's the minimal example:

After weeks of internal testing and development, we're now expanding the beta for public feedback and contribution. While this is still in early stages, we want to gather early feedback from the community and plan to be ready when .NET 10 launches in November.