Announcement

We're excited to announce the preview of Cake.Sdk, a new way to get the Cake tool scripting experience in regular .NET console applications! This brings you the stellar experience of the new "dotnet run app.cs" feature (requires .NET 10), while also working seamlessly with .NET 8 and 9 for regular csproj projects. 🚀 🍰

Here's the minimal example:

After weeks of internal testing and development, we're now expanding the beta for public feedback and contribution. While this is still in early stages, we want to gather early feedback from the community and plan to be ready when .NET 10 launches in November.

We are thrilled to announce that Cake.Tool has reached an incredible milestone of 50 million downloads on NuGet.org! This accomplishment wouldn't have been possible without the contributions of over 300 individuals and the unwavering support of our users. Join us as we reflect on the journey of Cake, featuring 123 releases and over 300 third-party community add-ins.

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: