Home: Release Notes in the Package Manager UI

[TonioOoOo]

Hello,

In the very nice NuGet 3 Visual Studio 2015 User Interface (thank you for your work), it lacks two very useful things for me and my team:

With 2013 :

1. We have access to Nuget Gallery via a link on ID property ;
2. You can read the release notes instead of the description (useful especially on the update screen)

Same screen in 2015 :

[TonioOoOo]

Thx !
I think description is needed on Browse/Install screen and release notes on update screen only...

[xavierdecoster]

I think the link formats need to be configurable through service document at https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json (similar to ReportAbuseUrl, the server should be able to declare this feature, client can fallback to nuget.org default)

[eeinworks8]

I see the clickable link issue was tagged, but is there any plan to add Release Notes back into VS 2015???

[yishaigalatzer]

We can't reliably add a gallery link - like we discussed this only works for nuget.org (so perhaps if we could identify that a package comes from nuget.org, we can do that, but that is not always clear)

[themadat]

Bringing back Release Notes would be VERY USEFUL. I would like to see what I am potentially doing when upgrading without have to go out to our repository and search each package I want to upgrade

[rohit21agrawal]

@yishaigalatzer @harikm86

Where should the release notes be placed? (A UI Mockup might be helpful here?)

And what's the final decision on the gallery link?

[yishaigalatzer]

We should add a gallery link

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Where should the release notes be placed? (A UI Mockup might be helpful here?)

And what's the final decision on the gallery link?

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[harikmenon]

@yishaigalatzer @rohit21agrawal lets chat in the office on Monday. I have a couple of questions I want to clarify before we make this change.

[rohit21agrawal]

@yishaigalatzer @rrelyea @harikm86

I've got this feature working with V2 feeds(snapshot attached below). For V3 feeds, we need the server to send the galleryUrl and releaseNotes in the json.

[Dalmirog-zz]

Hi Nuget Team. Are there any updates on bringing back the Release Notes for V3?

[fernandobeltranjsc]

Bringing back Release Notes would be VERY USEFUL for us! Any update?

[yishaigalatzer]

It is currently slated to 3.6 RC (look at the milestone tab). RC should coincide with VS15 RC release time.

Reality check: Given that we have a long list of issues to resolve for 3.6RC, this item is at a moderate risk of not making it.

[DmitryLobanov]

Having release notes back would be great. Thanks!

[304NotModified]

+1 for bringing back the release notes. I was surprised that it was suddenly removed.

[rocklan]

+1 for bringing back the release notes !

[steven-dawkins]

+1 for bringing back release notes

[lonnkvist]

+1 for bringing back release notes

[element533]

I would like to see release notes as well. I use Jenkins to generate release notes for my packages from Jira issues linked to a given release. Letting other engineers see them would improve adoption of new versions of my libraries.

[mikek65]

Is this feature ever going to make it in?

[thashepherd]

Please re-add this feature! It's a huge boost to dev quality of life in our workflow.

[cvvvlad]

+1 for bringing back release notes

[aKzenT]

Is there any update on this?

[thashepherd]

Fantastic to see this prioritized! My chief interest is in regards to https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/2834; it would be very useful for release note metadata to be accessible to Octopus. The idea is for some extra context to be displayed when selecting package versions from this screen:

Releases notes were displayed here before Octopus updated to 3.5+ internally, and it'd be great to have them back!

[shahabhijeet]

Please let me know if this can be prioritized sooner.
We have Azure Cognitive services nuget packages trying to depend upon release notes for their acquisition experience primarily pointing to updates to service samples.

[rohit21agrawal]

@shahabhijeet please send email to NuGet team with the business justification

[KyleInJB]

+1 for bringing back release notes

[sungam3r]

+1

[gotdablues]

Are the release notes available in VS 2017 (15.7.3)? If so, where are they located.

[sheitmann]

+1

[Nehmiabm]

+1

[bjuraga]

Is this still up for grabs? I can contribute some time in adding release notes to the client/s.

[grigoremircea]

+1. In our business, we use NuGet packages for dependency management. Our IDE needs to display release notes for each package in order for users to know if they should upgrade to a certain version or not. Right now, users have to go through unnecessary steps to read and understand release notes. Would be very helpful to bring these back.

[tomarikawa]

+1 very important feature

[bjuraga]

I am looking into how to build the solution and generate a VSIX i found this article:
https://github.com/NuGet/Home/wiki/Setting-up-the-NuGet-Development-Environment

It seems outdated and not relevant, as well as the Readme file here and on the Home repository.

If i install the generated VSIX from the dev branch to my VS2017 the NuGet Client breaks due to missing Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentModelHost, Version=16.0.0.0.

Any help to get the built Client to work in VS2017 is appreciated. I presume there is a branch or tag i should be using instead of the latest on the dev branch?

I already managed to track down and update all the places where release notes need to be added, just for my curiosity and would like to test my changes.

[VivaLaPanda]

+1 if I'm maintaining a package and release an update, I want users to have an easy way to see whether they should update. This seems like a basic feature and a really simple change.

[HaGGi13]

Well this ticket was created before nearly 4 years, is there some information when the issue will be fixed?

In my opinion it is a major feature to provide update information about a new package version.

Currently Visual Studio 2017 displays no release notes for package updates. Can somebody confirm that behavior too?

[ChristopherTheunissen]

Not even Visual Studio 2019 16.3.7 displays them.

[michal-ciechan]

Still not shown.... :(

[nkolev92]

Fixing up the issue title as the gallery link part has been fixed: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/5299.

cc @anangaur This requires server work in addition to client work.
Open an issue on the gallery to make the server side change: https://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery/issues/7956

[marcselis]

+1