Cake.Sdk 5.0.25257.82-beta released

Published
Monday, 15 September 2025
Category
Announcement
Author
devlead

We're excited to announce the release of Cake.Sdk 5.0.25257.82-beta, a minor preview release that brings improvements to performance, the debugging experience, and native .NET CLI publish support.

.NET Publish Support

The biggest improvement in this release is that dotnet publish now works with Cake.Sdk. This means you can now create self-contained precompiled binaries and containers, which can provide substantial performance gains when the same code is executed multiple times across different stages.

Creating Self-Contained Binaries

You can now publish your Cake scripts as self-contained executables:

dotnet publish cake.cs --output cake.sdk

This will result in a self-contained cake.sdk binary in the output folder, eliminating the need for the .NET runtime to be installed on the target machine.

Container Support

Building containers is now straightforward with Cake.Sdk:

dotnet publish cake.cs \
    --output cake.sdk \
    --target:PublishContainer \
    -p ContainerBaseImage='mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/runtime-deps:10.0-noble-chiseled' \
    -p ContainerArchiveOutputPath=Cake.Sdk.tar.gz

Once built, you can import and run the container:

# Import the container
podman load -i Cake.Sdk.tar.gz

# Run the container
podman run -it --rm localhost/cake-sdk:latest

You can also publish directly to a container image registry. This enables powerful scenarios, for example, you can have your build pipeline pre-compiled and cached on build agents for even faster execution.

Feedback Welcome

This is still a preview release, and we'd love your feedback! You can:

Package References

We're excited to see what you build with the enhanced Cake.Sdk capabilities! 🍰