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While Dependabot currently has no support for Cake, work towards that has already been started.

Using a GitHub Action it is now possible to utilize that work-in-progress to check Cake scripts for outdated references.

When I started working on Cake in 2014, I did it to scratch an itch I had. Fake existed (which has been a tremendous initial inspiration), but I didn't know F# enough to be confident enough to bet our build process on it. A lot has happened since then; .NET has changed, and so has Cake. We've moved from a separate Roslyn and Mono engine to a unified one based on Roslyn. We've added support for C# 6, 7, 8, and just recently 9. In addition to .NET Framework, we've added support for every version of .NET Core, from the early beta to .NET 5. The project has also gone from a single maintainer to nine, which I think is the biggest reason for its success.

Version 0.38.5 of Cake has been released.

In this version, we've just addressed an issue where the upcoming .NET 5 wasn't identified as .NET Core application but .NET 4 / Mono.

This could cause issues with Cake.Tool for example when running .NET Framework executable on non-Windows platforms or scripts reused cross-runtime.

Even though .NET 5 isn't released, we choose to release this as a hotfix so early adopters wouldn't hit this roadblock, but also for our own dogfooding - as we're building Cake with Cake and have started the process of porting Cake to .NET 5.

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

Version 0.38.3 of Cake has been released...in 0.38.4.

Because of a configuration error the hot fixes didn't go into 0.38.3, we corrected this in 0.38.4.

In this version, we are releasing two bug fixes that were identified after shipping our 0.38.2 release. One is a fix for how braces are escaped in console messages and the other is ensuring valid dates in zip files.

Contributions were included from:

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

Version 0.38.2 of Cake has been released.

In this version we are releasing a small bug fix which was identified after shipping our 0.38.0 release.

One of the new features that shipped in 0.38.0 was support for ANSI escape codes. Turns out, this feature breaks the service message logging in some CI systems. The problem was identified when Cake was running in TeamCity, but it is possible that other systems are affected.

Contributions were included from:

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