Announcement

Note that the following explanations are only about required platforms to run Cake. Cake will continue to support building of .NET Framework and .NET Core projects.

The NuGet team at Microsoft introduced a concept known as "Package ID prefix reservation" for packages published on nuget.org, which allows developers to reserve particular package ID prefixes with a specific account/owner and offers a number of features that are described in detail on Microsoft's docs.

One of these features is that packages with a reserved prefix include a visual indicator for NuGet package consumers to identify that the packages they are consuming originate from package owners that have reserved the prefix.

In case you missed it, intellisense support for Cake files in Visual Studio Code was announced a couple of months ago. Since then, we have actively been working on improving it, and the v1.14.0 release of C# for Visual Studio Code comes with some Cake specific improvements we'd like to share with you. In the v1.28.0 release notes for Omnisharp-Roslyn we can read the following:

As some of you might have noticed, we have been working on getting intellisense working for Cake files in Visual Studio Code. Today we are happy to announce that the OmniSharp project have merged our pull requests (#932 and #1681) and released v1.13.0 of the C# extension for Visual Studio Code, which includes support for Cake. In addition to this, we have released a new tool, called bakery, which is the script analysis and code generation engine making this possible. More information about bakery and how everything works behind the scenes are coming in an upcoming blog.

Towards the end of 2016, the Cake Team had an internal discussion about the newly created Cake Contrib Organisation. The topic of this conversation was, how could we distinguish between packages (mainly NuGet ones) that were part of the Core Cake system (for example, Cake, Cake.Core, Cake.NuGet, etc), and packages which have been created by our amazing Cake Community, in the form of addins, and modules.