title	description	author	ms.author	ms.date	ms.topic
NuGet 5.4 Release Notes	Release notes for NuGet 5.4 including new features, bug fixes, and DCRs.	JonDouglas	jodou	09/06/2019	conceptual

NuGet 5.4 Release Notes

NuGet distribution vehicles:

NuGet version	Available in Visual Studio version	Available in .NET SDK(s)
5.4.0	Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4	3.1.100¹

¹Installed with Visual Studio 2019 with .NET Core workload

Summary: What's New in 5.4

Faster solution load time - Overhead running NuGet code during first solution load has been reduced via partial-ngen to reduce JIT cost - #6007
New helper function - given a list of package ids and versions, get the likely top level packages. - #8316
New nuget/setup-nuget action for installing and configuring NuGet.exe on GitHub Actions. - #8818

Bugs

Plugin: Logging time accuracy is off on linux/Mac - #8747
Disposing of a plugin can sometimes throw and fail the whole operation. - #8732
Stop displaying version duplicates in allowed and blocked versions list in PMUI - #8679
Lock File not properly generated - framework ordering should not impact the restore with lockedmode - #8645
LockFile validation fails for projects with <RuntimeIdentifiers> set in SDK 3.0.100 - #8639
Signing Validation will now properly reject signatures with timestamps which have 2 values under the same OID - #8629
Update the license list - #8544

DCRs