Release Notes (Page 9)

Version 0.34.0 of Cake has been released.

First we would like to say a delayed happy birthday to Cake, in May it was five years since the first release of Cake.

It's been a great journey building a truly fully cross platform and cross environment build system, utilizing the power of C# and .NET giving the same experience regardless of running locally, running on build server, in a container, on .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono etc.

This journey wouldn't have been possible without an amazing community of contributors and users, we're really thankful for your support and we're just amazed with the fact that the runtime has been downloaded over five million times on NuGet, Docker Hub, Chocolatey and Homebrew.

We are no way near the end of the journey and believe it or not there's great progress on version 1.0, you can follow the work on version 1.0 in this pr.

In this version we've several features, improvements and bug fixes, full details below but a few highlights in this release:

Contributions were included from:

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

Version 0.33.0 of Cake has been released.

In this version we had contributions from 21 contributors outside of the core Cake Team members! This is an amazing number, and we thank everyone for their contributions!

During this release, all the Cake Team Members were in the same place at the same time (at the Microsoft MVP Summit), and we were able to sit together around the same table and discuss a number of the outstanding PR's that we had on the repository. We were able to get down from 26 open PR's to just 5 (which has now increased again to 7). It was great to meet all the team members (some for the first time), and discuss the future of Cake. We have lots of plans for the future, and are all looking forward to continuing to contribute to the project.

This release see a number of long waited features being added, including the ability to use a globbing pattern within the #load directive. As well as this, a number of improvements were included, and a number of bugs squashed. All of these are detailed below in the release notes section.

If you have ever been interested in peeking behind the scenes at "how" we do a Cake Release, I actually did a live stream of the Cake 0.33.0 version. This is now published to my YouTube Channel, and you can watch it back here, if you are interested. We are aware that there are some steps in our release process that can be further automated, and this is one of the areas that you are likely to see some change in 2019. Watch this space!

If you mind any problems with this latest release, then please feel free to reach out via the normal channels, Gitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and Twitter.

Known Issue

Contributions were included from:

NOTE: When a GitHub Profile hasn't been configured properly, the automated tool we use to generate the above list isn't able to find a GitHub profile to link to, that is why they appear as text only.

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

Version 0.32.0 of Cake has been released.

This is the first release for 2019, but before we focus on the new, a short retrospect of 2018. In 2018 we had 11 releases of Cake, hundreds of PRs from over fifty individual contributors, hundreds of issues raised and closed, and millions of downloads. All in all, it sums up to an active and healthy community – which we’re very grateful for, thank you!

A trend we saw in 2018 was that more and more tools start to come as .NET Global tools (including Cake itself) and most of these have been added to Cake tool resolution, allowing you with minimal changes run in a pure .NET Core environment.

This release has several improvements and fixes, to note a few, Cake’s Zip archive functionality has been greatly improved, initial support for VS2019 / MSBuild 16 has been added, a complete list of changes can be found below.

Happy New Year!

Known issue

Contributions were included from:

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

Version 0.32.1 of Cake has been released.

This is a hotfix release for 0.32.0, to fix a bug with Chocolatey pack.

Contributions were included from:

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

Version 0.31.0 of Cake has been released.

In this version we've got quite a few new features, improvements and fixes. A full list of changes is at end of this post, but first there's a few we would like to highlight.

Cake's built-in globber has gone through a major overhaul, with several improvements. A few notable ones are:

Example usage:

Full .NET Framework tools will usually execute fine on Windows even if running under .NET Core, but they'll fail on Unix systems. They don't know what to do with .NET Framework executables. With this release, Cake will inspect if tools with .exe extension have a proper .NET Framework PE header and then try to execute it with Mono if available.

This means that you'll be able to use .NET Framework tools even if you're using Cake.CoreCLR or Cake.Tool running under .NET Core, if you have Mono installed.

The --version argument has changed to only output the Semantic Version of Cake i.e. 0.31.0, or 0.31.0-alpha0095, for a pre release. This will make it easier to check and verify available Cake version in scripts and bootstrappers.

You can still get the previous output by using the --info argument.

Cake has been updated to use version 4.9.2 of the NuGet client libraries, which has several fixes, especially around performance and signed packages.

Contributions were included from:

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