NuGet: Things You Didn’t Know

NuGet: Things You Didn’t Know Claire Novotny Senior Product Manager, NuGet @clairernovotny

Package Authors vs Consumers How many of you have authored or maintain a NuGet package? How many of you consume internal packages for work? How many of you are familiar with multi-targeting?

Authoring Best Practices PackageIcon ReadMe License Symbols Source Link

Package Validation Potential Issues Validations Breaking changes Mismatching public API & impl Incompatibilities across TFMs Baseline version Compatible runtime Compatible framework

Multi-targeting Create libraries that work on multiple platforms • Might need native interop Why not just .NET Standard 2.0? • .NET Framework • New API’s: Performance, new features like Span<T> Different dependencies based on target platform Critical that public surface area is compatible

Versioning Lots of opinions… we aim for immutable, guaranteed reproducibility • Tags can be changed • Build / env variables can be changed NerdBank.GitVersioning • • • • Part of the .NET Foundation Version increment per commit, branch patterns for prerelease Version bumps in file CLI / MSBuild Task / Node.js support

Supply Chain Trust Whole other talk! Key points • Increasingly sophisticated attackers • Target dependencies (libraries, packages, build systems, repositories, etc) Recent Incidents • • • • • • • 2016 – left-pad (npm) 2017/2018 – Python Package Highjacking (PyPi) 2018 – event-stream (npm) 2019 – Account takeovers of popular packages (Ruby Gems) 2021 – Dependency confusion (all) 2021 – Log4J (maven) 2022 – node-ipc and peacenotwar (npm)

Think of it this way… We download code From the internet Written by unknown individuals That we haven’t read That we execute With full permissions On our trusted devices Where we keep our most important data It’s a miracle this all works

Supply Chain Trust – What is NuGet doing? Package Source Mapping • Source mapping tool Package Signing • Tamper resistance • Provenance: see what feed it came from, who created it • Specify allowed publishers CVE alerts / auditing • Vulnerability alerts in CLI, VS Mandatory 2FA on NuGet.org Prefix Reservations

Central Package Management Manage common dependencies for many projects Directory.Packages.props • PackageVersion items, Version attribute Overrides: PackageOverride attribute Transitive pinning: CentralPackageTransitivePinningEnabled Requires NuGet 6.2 / .NET SDK 6.0.300 / VS 17.2 p3 • Works with legacy projects, just needs newest tooling

Upcoming Plans - Highlights Package Scoring Machine readable dotnet list package commands Package Source Mapping tooling See transitive deps in Package Manager UI (PMUI) Search by TFM Latest on GitHub: https://aka.ms/nuget/roadmap

Questions? Twitter: @nuget, @clairernovotny Slides: https://noti.st/clairernovotny/hNUsOI/nuget-things-you-didnt-know

Thank you!