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Version 0.32.0 of Cake has been released.

This is the first release for 2019, but before we focus on the new, a short retrospect of 2018. In 2018 we had 11 releases of Cake, hundreds of PRs from over fifty individual contributors, hundreds of issues raised and closed, and millions of downloads. All in all, it sums up to an active and healthy community – which we’re very grateful for, thank you!

A trend we saw in 2018 was that more and more tools start to come as .NET Global tools (including Cake itself) and most of these have been added to Cake tool resolution, allowing you with minimal changes run in a pure .NET Core environment.

This release has several improvements and fixes, to note a few, Cake’s Zip archive functionality has been greatly improved, initial support for VS2019 / MSBuild 16 has been added, a complete list of changes can be found below.

Happy New Year!

Known issue

• Chocolatey pack has a regression in this release, we'll try to release a hotfix 0.32.1 as soon as possible.

Contributions were included from:

• devlead
• grumar
• gep13
• flcdrg
• jnm2
• tpluscode
• paulomorgado
• gitfool
• RLittlesII
• MihaMarkic
• FroggieFrog
• vlesierse
• azchohfi

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

Issues

As part of this release we had 17 issues closed.

Feature

• #2420 Add new label alias for GitReleaseManager.
• #2419 Extend GitReleaseManager aliases to use token parameter.

Improvement

• #2424 Support computer cert store with SignTool.
• #2417 Extend GetToolExecutableNames for GitReleaseManager.
• #2412 TFBuildCommand PublishCodeCoverage API Changes.
• #2410 Add Global Tool and new arguments support in TextTemplatingAliases.
• #2398 Support MsBuild version (16).
• #2381 Zip should behave by default like standard Zip utilities.
• #2379 Add an Encoding parameter to TextTransformation.Save.
• #2327 Missing report types for ReportGenerator.
• #2294 Add fluent API to enable MSBuild binary logger.
• #2249 Unhelpful error when #loading a missing nuget package.
• #2243 Missing ResultsDirectory when using DotNetCoreVSTest.
• #1973 Add Products prop to VSWhereSettings.

Documentation

• #2397 Fix missing parenthesis and missing setting.

Build

• #2403 Update Travis CI to supported version of Mono.
• #2394 License file missing in Chocolatey package.

Version 0.32.1 of Cake has been released.

This is a hotfix release for 0.32.0, to fix a bug with Chocolatey pack.

Contributions were included from:

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

Version 0.31.0 of Cake has been released.

In this version we've got quite a few new features, improvements and fixes. A full list of changes is at end of this post, but first there's a few we would like to highlight.

Cake's built-in globber has gone through a major overhaul, with several improvements. A few notable ones are:

Example usage:

Full .NET Framework tools will usually execute fine on Windows even if running under .NET Core, but they'll fail on Unix systems. They don't know what to do with .NET Framework executables. With this release, Cake will inspect if tools with .exe extension have a proper .NET Framework PE header and then try to execute it with Mono if available.

This means that you'll be able to use .NET Framework tools even if you're using Cake.CoreCLR or Cake.Tool running under .NET Core, if you have Mono installed.

The --version argument has changed to only output the Semantic Version of Cake i.e. 0.31.0, or 0.31.0-alpha0095, for a pre release. This will make it easier to check and verify available Cake version in scripts and bootstrappers.

You can still get the previous output by using the --info argument.

Cake has been updated to use version 4.9.2 of the NuGet client libraries, which has several fixes, especially around performance and signed packages.

Contributions were included from:

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

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.

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.

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

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:

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.

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

become

Contributions were included from:

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

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: