May, 2026

Version 6.2.0 of Cake has been released. Take it for a spin and give us feedback on our discussion board.

This release includes new features, improvements, and bug fixes to Cake Scripting, Cake Frosting, and Cake.Sdk since the Cake v6.1.0 release! 🚀 🍰

Cake now includes an RWX build provider (#4840), alongside GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and the other supported systems listed under build system integrations. Documentation is available on the RWX integration page. When your build runs on RWX, scripts get the same IsLocalBuild / provider detection pattern you already use elsewhere—for example:

See IRwxProvider for run, task, git, and runtime metadata, plus BuildSystem.Rwx.Commands for output values and artifacts.

Below is an example of an RWX YAML configuration that runs on Ubuntu 26.04, checks out your code, installs the .NET SDK using global.json, and then shows the three ways to invoke Cake on CI—Cake.Sdk file script, Cake .NET Tool, and Cake Frosting. See Running Cake on RWX for more examples.

For a single runner in your own repo, keep only the dotnet commands you need.

Cake.Tool and Cake.Sdk integration tests and pull requests now build continuously on RWX as well. Thank you to RWX for sponsoring the project with a build instance.

This release was made possible thanks to the Cake team and the contribution of these awesome members of the Cake community listed below:

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