Show NuGet package release notes
This issue is tracked in the NuGet repo regarding VS2015.
https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/1823
This still seems to be an issue in Visual Studio 2019 as at March 2021. We publish a number of nuget packages internally using Azure. The Package Release Notes show up in the Azure UI but not in Visual Studio. However, the "Description" does show up in Visual Studio, so I've tweaked the Description to include the release notes. This is actually from the Directory.build.props file, but could equally well be embedded in the project file:
<PackageReleaseNotes>
Release notes added to .nuspec file as <Release Notes> and also to end of Description
</PackageReleaseNotes>
<!-- Don't indent text, it makes it hard to read in the nuget package manager-->
<Description>
Description:
This is the description of our internally produced nuget package
Release Notes:$(PackageReleaseNotes)
</Description>
Found this out myself.
The release notes are displayed if I open the "Manage NuGet packages" dialog from the project
.
but not when I open it from the solution
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The behaviour is the same for my own packages as well as nuget.org