Cake.Core 6.2.0

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dotnet add package Cake.Core --version 6.2.0

NuGet\Install-Package Cake.Core -Version 6.2.0

This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.

<PackageReference Include="Cake.Core" Version="6.2.0" />

For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.

<PackageVersion Include="Cake.Core" Version="6.2.0" />
                    

                            Directory.Packages.props

<PackageReference Include="Cake.Core" />
                    

                            Project file

For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package.

paket add Cake.Core --version 6.2.0

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

#r "nuget: Cake.Core, 6.2.0"

#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.

#:package Cake.Core@6.2.0

#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package.

#addin nuget:?package=Cake.Core&version=6.2.0
                    

                            Install as a Cake Addin

#tool nuget:?package=Cake.Core&version=6.2.0
                    

                            Install as a Cake Tool

The NuGet Team does not provide support for this client. Please contact its maintainers for support.

Cake

Cake (C# Make) is a build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and build NuGet packages.

Documentation

You can read the latest documentation at https://cakebuild.net/.

For a simple example to get started see Setting up a new project.

Contributing

So you’re thinking about contributing to Cake? Great! It’s really appreciated.

Make sure you've read the contribution guidelines before sending that epic pull request. You'll also need to sign the contribution license agreement (CLA) for anything other than a trivial change. NOTE: The .NET Foundation CLA Bot will provide a link to this CLA within the PR that you submit if it is deemed as required.

Fork the repository.
Create a branch to work in.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Don't forget the unit tests.
Send a pull request.

Get in touch

License

Copyright © .NET Foundation, Patrik Svensson, Mattias Karlsson, Gary Ewan Park, Alistair Chapman, Martin Björkström, Dave Glick, Pascal Berger, Jérémie Desautels, Enrico Campidoglio, C. Augusto Proiete, Nils Andresen, and contributors.

Cake is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

For Roslyn, see https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/License.txt
For Autofac, see https://github.com/autofac/Autofac/blob/master/LICENSE
For NuGet.Core, see https://github.com/NuGet/Home/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt

Thanks

A big thank you has to go to JetBrains who provide each of the Cake Developers with an Open Source License for ReSharper that helps with the development of Cake.

Backers

Our wonderful backers:

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

Contribution License Agreement

By signing the CLA, the community is free to use your contribution to .NET Foundation projects.

.NET Foundation

This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.

Product	Compatible and additional computed target framework versions.
.NET	net8.0 is compatible. net8.0-android was computed. net8.0-browser was computed. net8.0-ios was computed. net8.0-maccatalyst was computed. net8.0-macos was computed. net8.0-tvos was computed. net8.0-windows was computed. net9.0 is compatible. net9.0-android was computed. net9.0-browser was computed. net9.0-ios was computed. net9.0-maccatalyst was computed. net9.0-macos was computed. net9.0-tvos was computed. net9.0-windows was computed. net10.0 is compatible. net10.0-android was computed. net10.0-browser was computed. net10.0-ios was computed. net10.0-maccatalyst was computed. net10.0-macos was computed. net10.0-tvos was computed. net10.0-windows was computed.

Product

.NET

Compatible target framework(s)

Included target framework(s) (in package)

Learn more about Target Frameworks and .NET Standard.

net10.0
- No dependencies.
net8.0
- No dependencies.
net9.0
- No dependencies.

NuGet packages (119)

Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on Cake.Core:

Package	Downloads
Cake.Cli The Cake CLI library.	7.2M
Cake.Common Provides aliases (extension methods on Cake context) that support CI, build, unit tests, zip, signing, etc. for Cake.	7.1M
Cake.DotNetTool.Module Cake Module that extends Cake with ability to install tools using dotnet cli.	4.9M
Cake.NuGet Cake Module providing NuGet install capabilities for i.e. preprocessor directives like #addin, #tool and #load	4.2M
Cake.Frosting The .NET Core host for Cake.	4.0M

GitHub repositories (8)

Showing the top 8 popular GitHub repositories that depend on Cake.Core:

Repository	Stars
FastReports/FastReport Free Open Source Reporting tool for .NET6/.NET Core/.NET Framework that helps your application generate document-like reports	3.0K
xamarin/XamarinComponents Plugins for Xamarin	2.0K
dotnet/Nerdbank.GitVersioning Stamp your assemblies, packages and more with a unique version generated from a single, simple version.json file and include git commit IDs for non-official builds.	1.6K
daveaglick/Scripty Tools to let you use Roslyn-powered C# scripts for code generation	618
axzxs2001/Asp.NetCoreExperiment 原来所有项目都移动到OleVersion目录下进行保留。新的案例装以.net 5.0为主，一部分对以前案例进行升级，一部分将以前的工作经验总结出来，以供大家参考！	360
Wyamio/Wyam A modular static content and static site generator.	146
magic-chunks/magic-chunks-dotnetcore Easy to use tool to config transformations for JSON, XML and YAML.	109
ejball/XmlDocMarkdown Generates Markdown from .NET XML documentation comments.	107

Version	Downloads	Last Updated
6.2.0	320	5/22/2026
6.1.0	377,640	3/1/2026
6.0.0	457,760	11/11/2025
5.1.0	208,179	10/4/2025
5.0.0	1,108,918	11/12/2024
4.2.0	55,583	10/23/2024
4.1.0	1,547	10/23/2024
4.0.0	834,904	11/18/2023
3.2.0	56,856	11/10/2023
3.1.0	287,574	7/9/2023
3.0.0	1,190,769	11/8/2022
2.3.0	51,308	10/14/2022
2.2.0	289,562	4/14/2022
2.1.0	81,407	2/20/2022
2.0.0	240,595	11/30/2021
2.0.0-rc0002	2,273	11/27/2021
2.0.0-rc0001	4,325	11/7/2021
1.3.0	160,041	10/7/2021
1.2.0	22,773	8/29/2021
1.1.0	235,709	3/6/2021

#4840 Add RWX as a build provider.
#4832 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.16 (net9.0) & 10.0.8 (net10.0).
#4830 Update Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.18.0.
#4822 Update Spectre.Console to 0.55.2.
#4820 Update Basic.Reference.Assemblies.* to 1.8.8.
#4794 Update NuGet.* packages dependencies to avoid transitive package vulnerable warnings.
#4784 Update Spectre.Console.* to 0.55.0.
#4776 Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens to 8.17.0.
#4771 Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 9.0.14 & 10.0.5 (net9.0&net10.0).
#4769 Update Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 9.0.14 & 10.0.5 (net9.0&net10.0).
#4765 Update Autofac to 9.1.0.
#4763 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 5.3.0.
#4442 Frosting DirectoryPath + ConvertableFilePath combines strings instead of paths.
#4158 Cannot specify empty properties when using DotNetBuild.
#2101 CakeReportPrinter should be disabled in Verbosity = Quiet.
#4834 .NET Tool installer switch from --add-source to --source for .NET 9 & 10.
#4456 DotNetMSBuild alias generates extra verbosity argument.
#4454 Impossible to retrieve package versions list with DotNetSearchPackage.
#4324 When running multiple targets, common dependent tasks are executed twice.
#4066 SetupContext.TasksToExecute only lists tasks related to first target when calling RunTargets.
#2666 GetFiles() using Glob curly braces gives empty result.