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Version 0.30.0 of Cake has been released.

With this release we've got several improvements and bug fixes contributed from the community, so firstly big thanks to all for your continued support! In this post we would like to highlight a few of those.

Global Tool

Cake is now available as a global .NET CLI tool. This means you can easily install Cake and have it globally available in your environment using the dotnet tool command.

dotnet tool install -g Cake.Tool --version 0.30.0

Once installed, you can launch cake from anywhere using the .NET CLI

dotnet cake build.cake

Which means you can now easily bootstrap the installation of Cake, if you have .NET Core SDK version 2.1.400 or newer installed. Existing boostrappers will still work as we created a new NuGet package for the tool, which means we now have the following packages for Cake:

• Cake - compiled for .NET 4.6.1 / Mono
• Cake.CoreCLR - compiled for .NET Core 2.0
• Cake.Tool - .NET tool compiled for .NET Core 2.1

Updated NuGet client

NuGet client assemblies have been updated to latest stable, this resolves issues with signed NuGet packages which could cause Cake to hang while acquiring tools and addins from NuGet.org.

Collection initializers

Setting classes collection properties have been overhauled and refactored to enable initializer syntax. Might seem small, but it's really convenient, it makes

new FooToolSettings
{
   EnvironmentVariables = new Dictionary<string, string> { ["FOO"] = "foo" }
}

become

new FooToolSettings
{
    EnvironmentVariables = { ["FOO"] = "foo" }
}

Contributions were included from:

• devlead
• Marusyk
• gep13
• SIkebe
• mholo65
• jnm2
• AdaskoTheBeAsT
• patriksvensson
• gitfool
• pascalberger

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

Issues

As part of this release we had 14 issues closed.

Feature

• #2067 Publish as .NET Core Global Tool.

Improvement

• #2238 Add repository metadata to NuGet packages.
• #2234 Remove mono argument from Argument Parser.
• #2211 DotNetCorePublishSettings doesn't contain --no-build flag support introduced in .NET Core SDK 2.1.
• #2146 Enabling initializer syntax for all collection properties.
• #1401 Support for dotCover configuration file.

Documentation

• #2233 Add bootstrap argument to Help Command.
• #2232 Add exclusive argument to Help Command.
• #2220 Incorrect documentation for InnoSetup Alias.

Bug

• #2228 CakeTaskExtensions are no longer accessible.
• #2224 Add option for ProcessSettings to opt out of working directory magic.
• #2214 Cake.CoreCLR can't handle whitespace in path.
• #2208 WithCriteria does not work with 'DryRun' (WhatIf flag).
• #2207 NuGet hang due to bug in NuGet 4.6.0.

Version 0.29.0 of Cake has been released.

We're really excited by this release which has some splendid features and improvements!

In this blog post we'll highlight the new exclusive parameter which adds support for executing a single task without dependencies. You can find a full list of changes at the end of this post.

Contributions were included from:

Version 0.28.1 of Cake has been released.

After releasing version 0.28.0 we detected that tasks with multiple criterias were written multiple times to the log and that certain messages from the NuGet integration had too high verbosity for certain types of messages.

In other words nothing serious, but if the task log suddenly irritates you as much as it did me, it might be worth bumping your pinned version to 0.28.1.

Contributions were included from:

Do you want to break your build on JetBrains InspectCode issues? Do you want to create nice reports for StyleCop issues in your code? Do you want to have ESLint issues reported as comments to pull requests? The Cake.Issues addins allows you to do this and much more. Read issues from different analyzer or linters, create reports or add them as comments to pull requests.

Version 0.28.0 of Cake has been released.

We're really excited by this release which has some splendid features and improvements!

In this blog post we'll highlight:

Contributions were included from: