Published Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Category Author Release Notes devlead Version 0.18.0 of Cake has been released. This release of Cake sees a number of new features added, as well as some bug fixes, however, most importantly, there’s a couple of breaking changes. The minor breaking changes involve the old obsoleted DNU alias have been removed and WiXHeat had an incorrect signature which have been corrected. The bigger breaking change is that with this release addins must target at least Cake.Core version 0.16.2 or later, addins targeting older versions will abort script execution. Many addins have already been updated and the many of those who have not yet upgraded, have pull requests ready for them. If any of the addins you use should be affected by this, please raise an issue in that addins repository. We’ve tried to reach out to all authors, but with hundreds of addins we’ve surely missed one or two. We do recommend you pin your builds to the version of Cake you using, that way you reduce the risk of builds failing because breaking changes. Instead you can do a controlled upgrade and take your time to sort any issues. Amongst the more notable new features is MSBuild / Visual Studio 2017 support and support for loading scripts from NuGet. We’re also pleased to announce that from this release and forward all official Cake binaries will be signed with a .NET Foundation certificate, this isn’t strong naming, so it won’t affect addins in any way, just ensure the authenticity of the binaries. Worth noting in a near future release we will update to and unify around latest stable version Roslyn scripting — this means Mono scripting engine will be removed, we will still run on Mono, but we will require a newer version of Mono than we do today. This will bring a lot of benefit for Cake as we will be able to support the latest C# features and reduce the maintenance burden and error process of maintaining multiple scripting engines. Please let us know if you run into any issues with this latest release. Once again, the Cake Team have been overwhelmed by the number of contributions from our Community Members. Simply put… THANK YOU! Contributions were included from: Full details of everything that was included in this release can be seen below. As part of this release we had closed. 59 issues Breaking changes Remove obsoleted DNU aliases #1396 WiXHeat misleading signature- no mode operates on file list #1276 Features Add “build tools” path for MSBuild 2017 to MSBuildResolver #1518 Add ChocolateyNew Alias #1492 Add support for NuGet Init and Add commands #1481 NUnitSettings does not have X86 property #1466 Enhance TeamCity provider #1416 Support for TF Build Commands #1399 Provide ability to add Custom attributes when creating AssemblyInfo #1381 Support for uninstall packages using Chocolatey #1377 Provide ability to specify name for xunit report #1374 MSBuild support for Visual Studio 2017 (aka “15”) #1369 Add support for importing namespaces at the assembly level #1352 Add DotCover Merge #1301 Allow modules to listen for script lifecycle events #1249 Support optional parameters on alias methods #1166 Support downloadable .cake script directive #1053 Extending the Sign command #887 ParseAssemblyInfo does not work .vb #600 Bugs Duplicate depedencies references in project.json for Cake.Testing.XUnit #1483 Cake.Testing package depends on xunit.core package #1448 Optional parameter codegen not invariant #1441 XBuildRunner#GetToolExecutableNames returning wrong executables #1427 Space in Reference Preprocessor Directive Throws Illegal characters in path #1426 Spaces in #load path will cause an Illegal characters in path error. #1389 Add CakeNamespaceImport for BuildSystem Aliases #1386 HeatSettings.OutputGroup is unusable #1363 OctoPack not passing — format to octo.exe #1349 Error: Unknown Token when directory contains @ character. #1342 Using reserved name for parameter name causes a parser failure #1260 Improvements signtool.exe should be called only once when signing multiple files #1513 Missing MSBuild15 on enum NuGetMSBuildVersion for VS 2017 #1510 Add ChocoPush alias for an IEnumerable #1504 Add ChocoPack alias for an IEnumerable #1503 Usage of -NoCache on installing tools and addins #1487 Mac OSX is not properly detected when running on Mono #1469 NuGet Tool Locator system paths on mac need updating #1463 Logging throws exception when there are curly braces in the string #1455 CopyDirectory — Missing Log information #1439 Teach XmlPeek to silence warnings, if needed #1438 Http call in unit test #1424 Add optional Go.CD Server URL Parameter to GetHistory #1403 Add RedirectStandardError to ProcessRunner #1379 Cake’s default tools / addins / modules paths are not so default as they seem. #1344 ArgumentException with illegal character information #1338 Add mechanism to validate addins #1293 Support XUnit’s x86 .exe runner #670 Add Gitter and Twitter Notifications #568 Documentation DownloadFile typo in docs #1501 Typo in SignTool docs #1495 Fix typos in GitVersion documentation #1489 Correct issue with GitLink Alias Category #1472 Fix commented example for DotNetCoreTest #1434 Fix doc comments in InnoSetupAliases #1388 Fix typo in comment #1373 Fixed Spelling Mistake. #1372 Originally published at cakebuild.net .
