Chocolatey

As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Bug Fix

• Corrupted package prevents new package installations.
  • See #3875 by Kylotan, resolved in !3901 by vexx32.

Contributors

2 contributors made this release possible.

SHA256 Hashes of the release artifacts

• 3ae5e9cc9cfa8347d243662006fc4e75936561cfb1c6605f6c37d81edf48fbc7 chocolatey-2.7.3.0.msi
• 40778cc59245b3eb6ea5147aeef5bea5d577419e5abce22a224189740dc16db5 chocolatey.2.7.3.nupkg
• a4879a4260f162c029a318791cbd90a7d191ee9d815e9981bcfee6e433ec83a2 chocolatey.lib.2.7.3.nupkg
• 561b4ea32936d794f2b938a9a5f00488d0a92116182bd8640a78728d06bbf9bf chocolatey.v2.7.3.tar.gz

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As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Dependency Change

• Update support branch bundled 7zip executables to v26.01.
  • See #3889 by corbob resolved in !3892 by corbob.

Contributors

1 contributors made this release possible.

Read our blog post about this release.

As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Dependency Changes

• Upgrade log4net to 3.3.1.
  • See #3887 by corbob, resolved in !3886 by corbob.
• Update bundled 7zip executables to v26.01.
  • See #3888 by corbob.

Contributors

1 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Bug Fix

• Linux docker container (v2.7.0-linux) does not find choco.exe.
  • See #3867 by Montellese, resolved in !3869 by gep13.

Contributors

2 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 4 issues closed.

Dependency Changes

• [Security] Update to version 2.11.0.20260219 of NuGet.Core.
  • See #3852 by corbob resolved in !3847 by corbob.
• Update bundled 7zip executables to v26.00.
  • See #3857 by AdmiringWorm resolved in !3859 by AdmiringWorm.

Contributors

2 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 11 issues closed.

Dependency Change

• Update bundled 7zip executables to v26.00.
  • See #3857 by AdmiringWorm, resolved in !3858 by AdmiringWorm.

Enhancements

• Capture the source that was being used when searching for packages.
  • See #3849 by gep13, resolved in !3850 by gep13.

Bug Fix

• Chocolatey does not handle passwords with non ASCII characters when interacting with authenticating sources
  • See #3600 by pfremy, resolved in !3762 by AdmiringWorm.

Contributors

2 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 117 commits which resulted in 11 issues being closed.

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Bug Fixes

• Paths for TMP & TEMP are overridden when running "refreshenv" as "SYSTEM".
  • See #3681 by michiexe, resolved in !3787 by corbob.
• Installing a new license enables chocolatey.licensed source even if it was originally disabled.
  • See #3802 by sync-by-unito[bot], resolved in !3803 by vexx32.

Enhancements

• Include software install path in choco info output.
  • See #1901 by Foadsf, resolved in !3317 by TheCakeIsNaOH, !3801 by corbob.
• Record and display the source location used to install package.
  • See #3804 by DarwinJS, resolved in !3801 by corbob, !3806 by corbob.
• Update tab completion script with new options added in Chocolatey Licensed Extension.
  • See #3817 by AdmiringWorm, resolved in !3818 by AdmiringWorm.

Contributors

8 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Bug Fix

• Unable to install additional packages in the Docker image due to addition of backports repository - see #3756 by LordAro.

Dependency Change

• Update bundled 7zip executables to v25.01 - see #3767 by nagten resolved in !3778 by gep13.

Contributors

3 contributors made this release possible.

As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Dependency Change

• Update bundled 7zip executables to v25.01 - see #3779 by gep13 resolved in !3780 by gep13.

Contributors

1 contributors made this release possible.

Read our blog post about this release.

As part of this release we had 41 issues closed.

[!NOTE]

The new --include-headers option as well as some of the expanded tab completions will not fully function with Chocolatey Licensed Extension. See our tracking issue for more information.

Features

• Add choco license command.
  • See #2829 by mkevenaar, resolved in !2847 by JPRuskin.
• Add choco support command.
  • See #3668 by gep13, resolved in !3676 by gep13.

Bug Fixes

• Execution of the refreshenv command incorrectly removes % (percent) characters from environment variable values.
  • See #1664 by johnyesberg, resolved in !1678 by MPagel, !3688 by gep13.
• choco upgrade command fails with error message The string is missing the terminator: '. when useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is enabled.
  • See #2410 by BlythMeister, resolved in !2804 by BlythMeister, !3705 by AdmiringWorm.
• Chocolatey CLI outputs errors/warnings when validating a license file with --limit-output option enabled.
  • See #2851 by corbob, resolved in !2857 by corbob.
• Execution of the refreshenv command fails when an environment variables contains a | (pipe) character.
  • See #3294 by notexactlyawe, resolved in !3688 by gep13.
• Incorrect environment variable name being used in documentation and in the template generated by the choco new command.
  • See #3685 by gep13.
• Unable to list template information via the choco template command when template name includes capital letters.
  • See #3694 by gep13, resolved in !3732 by gep13, !3736 by gep13.

Improvements

• Throw error (with suggestion on how to fix) when usage of -v option in conjunction with a version number is detected.
  • See #123 by ferventcoder, resolved in !3730 by AdmiringWorm.
• Expand the ChocolateyTabExpansion.ps1 file with completions for multiple Chocolatey CLI commands.
  • See #669 by ferventcoder, resolved in !3725 by gep13, !3728 by AdmiringWorm.
• Add ability for Chocolatey CLI to calculate hash for large files (over 2 GB).
  • See #747 by ruckc, resolved in !2714 by TheCakeIsNaOH.
• Add ability to pass multiple arguments to the Install-ChocolateyFileAssociation PowerShell function.
  • See #1176 by bazzilic, resolved in !1169 by bazzilic, !3684 by gep13.
• Add ability for package maintainers to know the package version of previously installed package version during choco upgrade command.
  • See #1713 by FranklinYu, resolved in !3689 by gep13.
• Add a headers row to the output from all appropriate Chocolatey CLI commands when using --limit-output option.
  • See #2591 by corbob, resolved in !2856 by corbob.
• Add $env:ChocolateyPackageId environment variable to represent the id from the nuspec file for a package.
  • See #2781 by schittli, resolved in !2900 by steviecoaster.
• Remove verbose wording for confirmation messages when installing and upgrading packages.
  • See #2848 by lemonlambda, resolved in !2849 by lemonlambda.
• Add the ability for package maintainers to know when the --not-silent option is being used by Chocolatey commands.
  • See #3666 by TheCakeIsNaOH, resolved in !3695 by gep13.
• Improve readability, maintainabilty, and correctness of the ChocolateyTabExpansion.ps1 file.
  • See #3700 by gep13, resolved in !3701 by gep13.
• Add --order-by option to choco search command to extend ability to order package results.
  • See #3709 by AdmiringWorm, resolved in !1619 by bartvanandel.
• Add short -n option to the choco new and choco config commands to improve consistency with other commands.
  • See #3713 by gep13, resolved in !3714 by gep13.
• Add ability for choco list command to ignore packages that are pinned using --ignore-pinned option.
  • See #3717 by gep13, resolved in !3727 by gep13.
• Add ability to always ignore the HTTP request cache when running Chocolatey CLI commands.
  • See #3718 by gep13, resolved in !3729 by gep13.

Documentation

• Fix documentation for Install-ChocolateyZipPackage output.
  • See !2357 by Ana06.
• Fix typo in --online option.
  • See !3593 by gep13.

Contributors

19 contributors made this release possible.