Cake v1.2.0 released

Published
Sunday, 29 August 2021
Category
Release Notes
Author
devlead

Version 1.2.0 of Cake has been released.

In this version, we've got a few new features and improvements, bug fixes and we've bumped several dependencies. Amongst the new features is the support for version ranges for addins, a few examples below

  • Include and exclude (between 2.5.0 and anything below 2.6.0)
    • #addin nuget:?package=Serilog&version=[2.5.0,2.6.0)
  • Include and include (between 2.3.0 and 2.4.0)
    • #addin nuget:?package=Serilog&version=[2.3.0,2.4.0]
  • Include and wildcard (between 2.2.0 and anything below 2.3.0)
    • #addin nuget:?package=Serilog&version=[2.2.*,2.3.0)

GitHub Discussion for this release: #3438 - v1.2.0

Contributions were included from:

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

Issues

As part of this release we had 35 issues closed.

Feature

  • #2690 Consider adding some kind of "GetArguments()" alias, similar to the EnvironmentVariables() one.
  • #2578 Feature request: nuget version ranges support.
  • #2362 Add Support for New snupkg Symbol Packages.

Improvement

  • #3429 Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 5.0.2.
  • #3427 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 3.11.0.
  • #3425 Update NuGet Client libraries to 5.11.0.
  • #3423 Update Spectre.Console to 0.41.0.
  • #3246 Update Spectre.Console to 0.38.0.
  • #3337 Suppress compilation warnings CS1701, CS1702, and CS1705.
  • #3316 Bump NuGet client libraries to 5.9.1.
  • #3314 Bump .NET SDK to 5.0.202.
  • #3294 Clean up task builder extensions.
  • #3281 GitVersion Tool: Remap existing verbosity values to valid GitVersion values.
  • #3255 Update NuGet client libraries to 5.9.0.
  • #3253 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 3.9.0 stable.
  • #3223 Feature request: Environment variable substitution in cake.config.
  • #2654 NUnit3Settings should support TestParam.
  • #2168 TypeConverter to enable Argument(...).
  • #2030 NuGetHasSource is case sensitive.

Documentation

  • #3365 Typo in documentation of NuGetAdd alias.
  • #3355 VSTest alias documentation contains holdover from <v0.17.0.
  • #3283 Update GitVersion alias reference page with dotnet tool usage example.
  • #3259 TypeLoadException: Missing implementation of RegisterLazy.

Build

  • #3431 Update Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 16.11.0.
  • #3421 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.400.
  • #3372 Update Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 16.9.4.
  • #3370 Update Spectre.Console to 0.39.0.
  • #3368 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.203 and .NET Core 3.1.409 and 2.1.816.
  • #3250 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.200.
  • #3248 Remove Cake.DotNetTool.Module from build.cake.

Bug

  • #3360 using Spectre.Console; makes error CS0246.
  • #3352 Cake Frosting Parent DirectoryPath Fails To Combine with Slash.
  • #3243 Error messages logged via Error(...) are displayed in random places in the build log.
  • #3226 Still can't resolve resource assemblies after GH2734.
  • #1663 CopyFiles alias throws exception if empty enumeration is passed.