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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:

• devlead
• gep13
• patriksvensson
• grdylan
• paulomorgado
• mholo65
• Kevin LaBranche
• rh072005
• louisfischer
• pavzaj
• Michael Samorokov
• daveaglick
• NEXOGEN\kemenya

Exclusive

When you've executed a series of tasks and it fails on the last one, wouldn't it be nice if you could execute a single task, without requiring all of its dependencies to execute again? Well you're in luck, this just got added into 0.29.0! Beyond retrying failed operations - this can really speed things up while developing and debugging a script.

Below is a simple script with two tasks where Dependent-Task depends on Dependency-Task.

var target = Argument("target", "Default");

Task("Dependency-Task")
    .Does(() =>
{
    Information("Executing dependency.");
});


Task("Dependent-Task")
    .IsDependentOn("Dependency-Task")
    .Does(() =>
{
   Information("Executing task.");
});

RunTarget(target);

Normally when executing Cake.exe --target="Dependent-Task" we would see something like:

========================================
Dependency-Task
========================================
Executing dependency.

========================================
Dependent-Task
========================================
Executing task.

Task                          Duration
--------------------------------------------------
Dependency-Task               00:00:00.0061407
Dependent-Task                00:00:00.0002070
--------------------------------------------------
Total:                        00:00:00.0063477

But when specifying the exclusive option Cake.exe --target="Dependent-Task" --exclusive, then only the specified task will execute.

========================================
Dependent-Task
========================================
Executing task.

Task                          Duration
--------------------------------------------------
Dependent-Task                00:00:00.0059713
--------------------------------------------------
Total:                        00:00:00.0059713

Issues

As part of this release we had 12 issues closed.

Breaking change

• #2140 DotNetCorePublish does not respect SelfContained DotNetCorePublishSettings property.

Feature

• #2203 Add Octopus Deploy Promote release support.
• #2095 Add "--skipnontestassemblies" funcionality to CAKE's NUnit3Settings as it exists in original nunit3 test runner.
• #2094 Add support for executing a single task without dependencies.

Improvement

• #2196 NuGet Repository information not settable in NuGet Pack.
• #2185 Try to find vswhere.exe on the system if the tool is not registered.
• #2154 Problem with loading abolute path scripts with #load preprocessor.
• #2152 try resolve vstest.console.exe before guessing it.
• #1609 Add additional VSTS actions.

Documentation

• #2195 Updated the WiX tool documentation.
• #2193 Add Pascal and Dave to all required places.
• #2188 The CLA link in readme seems invalid or broken.

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:

Version 0.27.2 of Cake has been released.

This is a hotfix release of Cake. Following the release of Cake 0.27.1 we discovered additional problems with assembly and dependency loading. Luckily, Dave Glick was kind enough to step up and (hopefully) squash these bugs once and for all.

Contributions were included from:

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