Cake v0.6.1 released

Published
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Category
Release Notes
Author
gep13

Version 0.6.1 of Cake has been released.

In this latest version of Cake, 0.6.1, a number of new features have been added including support for NUnit 3 and support for deprecration of aliases. In addition, a number of bugs have been resolved. You can find full details in our release notes below.

For those of you who want to have a global installation of Cake on your workstations, we have just released a Chocolatey Package version of Cake. This means that you can simply do:

choco install cake.portable

and you will be able to run Cake from anywhere, as it will be available on your path. You can find the Chocolatey Package here.

Please let us know if you run into any issues with this latest release.

Bugs

  • #538 Correct parameter passed to Create method of GitReleaseManager
  • #518 Misconfiguration in GitVersion Runner
  • #515 Null Reference Exception being thrown when analyzing ReSharper CLI Reports
  • #501 ComVisible Attribute not being parsed correctly by AssemblyInfoParseResult
  • #497 Globber exception when path has ampersand
  • #486 BUG: CopyFile logs incorrect targetFilePath
  • #476 ParseAssemblyInfo does not ignore commented information

Features

  • #531 Get support for .cake files in GitHub
  • #530 Create a Visual Studio Code extension for Cake
  • #528 Add support for ARM processor
  • #471 Add NUnit 3 support
  • #373 Issue with External nugets used directly via #addin directive
  • #283 Add support to deprecate aliases

Improvements

  • #546 Change Chocolatey Task to not run by default
  • #541 Add new AppVeyor Environment Variable
  • #537 Add Task for creating Release Notes
  • #522 Need ability to specify which MSBuild platform to use.
  • #510 Allow specifying an output directory for ChocolateyPack
  • #452 DupFinder: Provide ability to fail the build on detected issues
  • #451 InspectCode: Provide ability to fail the build on detected issues
  • #380 Make TextTransform handle Regex Special Characters

Documentation

  • #490 Correct Documentation for GitReleaseNotes