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Version 0.30.0 of Cake has been released.

With this release we've got several improvements and bug fixes contributed from the community, so firstly big thanks to all for your continued support! In this post we would like to highlight a few of those.

Cake is now available as a global .NET CLI tool. This means you can easily install Cake and have it globally available in your environment using the dotnet tool command.

Once installed, you can launch cake from anywhere using the .NET CLI

Which means you can now easily bootstrap the installation of Cake, if you have .NET Core SDK version 2.1.400 or newer installed. Existing boostrappers will still work as we created a new NuGet package for the tool, which means we now have the following packages for Cake:

NuGet client assemblies have been updated to latest stable, this resolves issues with signed NuGet packages which could cause Cake to hang while acquiring tools and addins from NuGet.org.

Setting classes collection properties have been overhauled and refactored to enable initializer syntax. Might seem small, but it's really convenient, it makes

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

Version 0.29.0 of Cake has been released.

We're really excited by this release which has some splendid features and improvements!

In this blog post we'll highlight the new exclusive parameter which adds support for executing a single task without dependencies. You can find a full list of changes at the end of this post.

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Version 0.28.0 of Cake has been released.

We're really excited by this release which has some splendid features and improvements!

In this blog post we'll highlight:

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Version 0.25.0 of Cake has been released.

The first release of 2018 is here! It contains mostly improvements and bug fixes, but it also has one potential breaking change.

The most notable change in this release is that we no longer use the NuGet.exe CLI tool when installing addins, tools, modules and scripts from NuGet sources in our preprocessor directives. Now we instead default to the in-process NuGet client introduced in Cake v0.22.0. This will not only fix many previous issues people have seen with Cake's preprocessor NuGet handling, but also enable us to simplify boostrappers and pave the way to properly solve addin dependencies. It will also make pure .NET Core environments work out of the box with Cake.CoreCLR.

Also notable is that this release will likely be the last one before we migrate Cake.CoreCLR to .NET Core 2.x, we know this is much awaited! The migration work has been going on for some time now and most blockers have been sorted. So our preliminary plan is to have this migration done by the next release.

The new NuGet client shouldn't break any existing scripts, addins or tools, but you might need to clear your tools/addins folder as it has a slightly different folder structure. You can opt-out if you're having issues, by using Cake configuration environment variable, file or argument.

Environment Variable Name

Config File Contents

Direct Argument

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

Version 0.24.0 of Cake has been released.

As a little holiday gift from the Cake team and contributors, the last version for 2017 just shipped! This release shouldn't have any breaking changes, but it does have several improvements, bug fixes, and a couple new features.

A notable new feature is module bootstrapping built into the Cake script runner, which lets you download and install modules from NuGet with a #module preprocessor directive in your build script, similar to what you've previously already been able to do with #tool and #addin.

The only caveat is that as modules can change and extend the internals of Cake, this bootstrapping needs to be done before Cake executes. This is solved by bootrapping being it's own step by invoking Cake with a --bootstrap argument before you execute the script normally.

Notable amongst the improvements is that we've upgraded to Roslyn 2.6.1 which gives you C# 7.2 support in your Cake scripts.

And as always thanks to all Cake contributors and users, Cake wouldn't have been possible without you!

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