NuGet-3.4-RC.md

title	NuGet 3.4-RC Release Notes
description	Release notes for NuGet 3.4 RC including known issues, bug fixes, added features, and DCRs.
author	JonDouglas
ms.author	jodou
ms.date	11/11/2016
ms.topic	conceptual

NuGet 3.4-RC Release Notes

NuGet 3.3 Release Notes | NuGet 3.4 Release Notes

NuGet 3.4-RC was released March 3, 2016 alongside the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC and was built with a few tenets in minds:

• Cross-Platform support
• Performance improvements
• Minor UI improvements

The following features are available in this RC, with more planned for the 3.4 final release.

New Features

• NuGet clients now support gzip content-encoding from repositories
• Support for PDBs from packages in xproj projects
• Support for iOS and Android build actions in the contentFiles element
• Support for the netstandard and netstandardapp framework monikers

New User Interface Features

• Significant performance improvements especially on the Installed, Updates, and Consolidate tabs
• Installed and Updates tabs are now sorted alphabetically
• Added a Refresh button that allows a search to be refreshed

Updates and Improvements

• Packages referenced in project.json that have a floating version will not update on every build. Instead, they will update only when forced to restore, clean, rebuild, or modify project.json.
• nuget.org repository sources are no longer forced into a project configuration when you use the NuGet configuration UI.
• NuGet no longer restores packages in shared projects nor writes a lock file.
• We've improved network failure and retry handling for unreachable or slow-to-respond servers.
• Keyboard and mouse behaviors are improved in the Visual Studio Package Manager UI.
• We now support the latest project.json schema in DNX.

Known Issues

We continue to track issues on our GitHub issues list which can be found at: https://github.com/nuget/home/issues