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We recommend using the Cake dotnet tool moving forward - https://cakebuild.net/blog/2021/11/cake-v2.0.0-rc0001-released#supported-runners-and-required.net-version

There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package Cake --version 1.2.0
NuGet\Install-Package Cake -Version 1.2.0
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" Version="1.2.0" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Cake --version 1.2.0
#r "nuget: Cake, 1.2.0"
#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.
// Install Cake as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Cake&version=1.2.0

// Install Cake as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Cake&version=1.2.0

The Cake script runner.

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1.3.0 895,169 10/7/2021
1.2.0 60,794 8/29/2021
1.1.0 249,530 3/6/2021
1.0.0 90,022 2/7/2021
1.0.0-rc0003 5,859 1/29/2021
1.0.0-rc0002 10,178 12/20/2020
1.0.0-rc0001 14,384 11/5/2020
0.38.5 1,208,107 9/20/2020
0.38.4 564,560 6/26/2020
0.38.3 3,291 6/26/2020
0.38.2 130,790 6/9/2020
0.38.1 38,756 5/30/2020
0.38.0 27,935 5/30/2020
0.37.0 1,266,732 2/1/2020
0.36.0 201,503 1/11/2020
0.35.0 676,392 9/28/2019
0.34.1 755,025 7/17/2019
0.34.0 28,340 7/16/2019
0.33.0 608,202 4/1/2019
0.32.1 482,399 1/4/2019
0.32.0 38,388 1/4/2019
0.31.0 72,489 12/13/2018
0.30.0 3,842,078 8/22/2018
0.29.0 104,446 7/6/2018
0.28.1 81,613 6/19/2018
0.28.0 77,156 5/31/2018
0.27.2 61,003 5/15/2018
0.27.1 73,639 4/21/2018
0.27.0 12,920 4/19/2018
0.26.1 212,042 3/3/2018
0.26.0 56,396 2/26/2018
0.25.0 532,990 1/17/2018
0.24.0 127,373 12/29/2017
0.23.0 410,125 10/11/2017
0.22.2 90,027 9/17/2017
0.22.1 6,813 9/16/2017
0.22.0 77,853 9/13/2017
0.21.1 405,087 7/15/2017
0.21.0 39,954 7/14/2017
0.20.0 237,312 6/12/2017
0.19.5 157,131 5/4/2017
0.19.4 200,449 4/18/2017
0.19.3 28,310 4/4/2017
0.19.2 21,792 4/1/2017
0.19.1 25,569 3/24/2017
0.19.0 23,692 3/23/2017
0.18.0 62,921 3/7/2017
0.17.0 204,488 11/9/2016
0.16.2 24,999 10/11/2016
0.16.1 11,887 9/25/2016
0.16.0 88,134 9/15/2016
0.15.2 63,526 7/29/2016
0.15.1 5,425 7/28/2016
0.15.0 9,533 7/26/2016
0.14.0 13,206 7/11/2016
0.13.0 12,883 6/7/2016
0.12.0 88,971 5/25/2016
0.11.0 32,126 5/1/2016
0.10.1 15,111 4/7/2016
0.10.0 11,643 3/16/2016
0.9.0 143,887 2/23/2016
0.8.0 10,422 1/18/2016
0.7.0 7,223 12/23/2015
0.6.4 11,990 12/9/2015
0.6.3 4,527 12/7/2015
0.6.2 4,820 12/3/2015
0.6.1 5,310 12/2/2015
0.6.0 8,522 11/4/2015
0.5.5 6,038 10/11/2015
0.5.4 9,933 9/11/2015
0.5.3 5,369 8/31/2015
0.5.2 5,873 8/15/2015
0.5.1 6,271 7/27/2015
0.5.0 6,255 7/20/2015
0.4.3 5,083 7/5/2015
0.4.2 6,234 5/27/2015
0.4.1 4,854 5/18/2015
0.4.0 5,240 5/12/2015
0.3.2 6,402 4/16/2015
0.2.2 5,114 3/31/2015
0.2.1 6,155 3/17/2015
0.2.0 4,663 3/15/2015
0.1.34 4,928 3/2/2015
0.1.33 5,250 2/24/2015
0.1.32 5,361 2/10/2015
0.1.30 4,996 2/8/2015
0.1.29 4,952 1/28/2015
0.1.28 4,867 1/18/2015
0.1.27 5,167 1/13/2015
0.1.26 4,549 1/11/2015
0.1.25 5,394 1/1/2015
0.1.24 5,120 12/12/2014
0.1.23 5,019 11/21/2014
0.1.22 4,961 11/20/2014
0.1.21 5,146 9/23/2014
0.1.20 5,103 9/14/2014
0.1.19 5,342 9/3/2014
0.1.18 5,281 8/21/2014
0.1.17 5,180 7/29/2014
0.1.16 5,213 7/23/2014
0.1.15 5,258 7/20/2014
0.1.14 5,165 7/16/2014
0.1.13 4,941 7/10/2014
0.1.12 5,223 7/10/2014
0.1.11 4,997 7/1/2014
0.1.10 4,933 7/1/2014
0.1.9 5,280 6/28/2014
0.1.8 5,508 6/24/2014
0.1.7 5,270 6/20/2014
0.1.6 5,609 6/17/2014
0.1.5 5,252 6/16/2014
0.1.4 5,361 6/15/2014
0.1.3 5,288 6/14/2014
0.1.2 5,391 6/13/2014
0.1.1 5,290 6/12/2014
0.1.0 5,800 6/11/2014
0.0.8 5,817 6/11/2014
0.0.7 5,997 6/10/2014
0.0.6 5,371 6/6/2014
0.0.5 5,863 6/6/2014
0.0.4 6,086 6/5/2014
0.0.3 5,683 6/4/2014
0.0.2 5,808 6/4/2014

2690 Consider adding some kind of "GetArguments()" alias, similar to the EnvironmentVariables() one.
2578 Feature request: nuget version ranges support.
2362 Add Support for New snupkg Symbol Packages.
3429 Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection to 5.0.2.
3427 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 3.11.0.
3425 Update NuGet Client libraries to 5.11.0.
3423 Update Spectre.Console to 0.41.0.
3337 Suppress compilation warnings CS1701, CS1702, and CS1705.
3316 Bump NuGet client libraries to 5.9.1.
3314 Bump .NET SDK to 5.0.202.
3294 Clean up task builder extensions.
3281 GitVersion Tool: Remap existing verbosity values to valid GitVersion values.
3255 Update NuGet client libraries to 5.9.0.
3253 Update Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Scripting to 3.9.0 stable.
3246 Update Spectre.Console to 0.38.0.
3223 Feature request: Environment variable substitution in cake.config.
2654 NUnit3Settings should support TestParam.
2168 TypeConverter to enable Argument(...).
2030 NuGetHasSource is case sensitive.
3365 Typo in documentation of NuGetAdd alias.
3355 VSTest alias documentation contains holdover from <v0.17.0.
3283 Update GitVersion alias reference page with dotnet tool usage example.
3259 TypeLoadException: Missing implementation of RegisterLazy.
3431 Update Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 16.11.0.
3421 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.400.
3372 Update Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk to 16.9.4.
3370 Update Spectre.Console to 0.39.0.
3368 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.203 and .NET Core 3.1.409 and 2.1.816.
3250 Update .NET SDK to 5.0.200.
3248 Remove Cake.DotNetTool.Module from build.cake.
3360 using Spectre.Console; makes error CS0246.
3352 Cake Frosting Parent DirectoryPath Fails To Combine with Slash.
3243 Error messages logged via Error(...) are displayed in random places in the build log.
3226 Still can't resolve resource assemblies after GH2734.
1663 CopyFiles alias throws exception if empty enumeration is passed.