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[!WARNING]

This is a pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI and it is NOT suitable for production use! A pre-release version will have bugs that could have a detrimental impact to your environment. Ensure all necessary due diligence steps are taken before using in your environment.

[!WARNING]

This pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI only works with the beta version of the Chocolatey Licensed Extension.

[!NOTE]

If you run into any problems when using this beta version of Chocolatey CLI we would ask that you comment on this discussion, which is where we will be collating issues, and providing workarounds, etc. We will not be accepting issues raised against this beta release.

Known Issues

See this list for known issues with this pre-release.

Breaking Changes

In addition to the breaking changes listed in the previous alpha release below, the following changes have been made:

• choco config list should only include information about config - see #2986.
• Remove the --remove option in choco apikey command and replace with remove subcommand - see #2984.
• Remove WebPI alternative source - see #2980.
• Rename or migrate away from custom HashCode class - see #2909.
• Migrate from Rx-* packages to System.Reactive.* packages - see #2896.
• Remove side-by-side installs - see #2788.
• Fix spelling mistake in the extract_binary_file_from_assembly function - see #2776.
• Remove deprecated Chocolatey shims (chocolatey, cinst, clist, cpush, cuninst, cup) - see #2642.
• Remove deprecated configurations from Config - see #2630.
• Remove the default push location when uploading/pushing packages - see #2629.
• Remove Get-BinRoot Chocolatey helper function - see #2623.
• choco config list --limit-output does not limit output as expected - see #2013.
• Change default behavior of choco list to be local only - see #158.

Enhancements

• Ability to specify a default source when doing choco push - see #62.
• Remove re-instated Chocolatey commands which were added in v1.0.1 - see #2678.

As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Bug Fix

• chocolateyBeforeModify.ps1 does not get called for dependent packages - see #1092.

[!WARNING]

This is a pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI and it is NOT suitable for production use! A pre-release version will have bugs that could have a detrimental impact to your environment. Ensure all necessary due diligence steps are taken before using in your environment.

[!WARNING]

This pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI only works with the alpha version of the Chocolatey Licensed Extension.

[!NOTE]

If you run into any problems when using this alpha version of Chocolatey CLI we would ask that you comment on this discussion, which is where we will be collating issues, and providing workarounds, etc. We will not be accepting issues raised against this alpha release.

Known Issues

See this list for known issues with this pre-release.

Bug Fixes

• Fix choco search command that was providing invalid results when using the --version option.
• Fix dependency resolution problems during execution of choco upgrade and choco install.

Enhancements

• Add back support for the --disable-repository-optimizations option which was missing in previous alpha releases.
• Improvements made to warnings that are emitted when a dependency fails to be resolved during a choco upgrade or choco install.

[!WARNING]

This is a pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI and it is NOT suitable for production use! A pre-release version will have bugs that could have a detrimental impact to your environment. Ensure all necessary due diligence steps are taken before using in your environment.

[!WARNING]

This pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI only works with the alpha version of the Chocolatey Licensed Extension.

[!NOTE]

If you run into any problems when using this alpha version of Chocolatey CLI we would ask that you comment on this discussion, which is where we will be collating issues, and providing workarounds, etc. We will not be accepting issues raised against this alpha release.

Known Issues

See this list for known issues with this pre-release.

Breaking Changes

In addition to the breaking changes listed in the previous alpha release below, the following changes have been made:

• Introduce upper limit when querying for packages and warn when threshold is close to being hit - see 3014.
• Disallow passing in a path to a NUPKG file directly when installing/upgrading packages - see 3008.

Enhancement

• Add back validation messages after upgrade to NuGet v3+ - see 3000.

Documentation

• Fix typos and spelling errors - see 2990.

As part of this release we had 6 issues closed.

Deprecated Features

• Deprecate WebPI alternative source - see #2958
• Deprecate usage of direct path to nupkg or nuspec in choco install command - see #2981
• Deprecate the --remove option in the apikey command - see #2983
• Deprecate choco config list including output from features/sources/apikeys etc - see #2985
• Deprecate unnecessary public methods on CygwinService - see #3026

Bug Fixes

• File not found error when using --source=cygwin to install packages - see #2953

[!WARNING]

This is a pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI and it is NOT suitable for production use! A pre-release version will have bugs that could have a detrimental impact to your environment. Ensure all necessary due diligence steps are taken before using in your environment.

[!WARNING]

This pre-release version of Chocolatey CLI does NOT work with the Chocolatey Licensed Extension. It will actually prevent the loading of the Chocolatey Licensed Extension if it is installed.

[!NOTE]

If you run into any problems when using this alpha version of Chocolatey CLI we would ask that you comment on this discussion, which is where we will be collating issues, and providing workarounds, etc. We will not be accepting issues raised against this alpha release.

Known Issues

See this list for known issues with this pre-release.

Breaking Changes

• Upgrade to target version 4.8 of the .NET Framework - see #2738.
• Prevent usage of leading 0 in package version numbers - see #1174.

Bugs

• choco pack command fails with error on Linux when using a file greater than 2 GB - see #2278.
• Filenames that contain apostrophes aren't handled correctly when calculating checksums - see #1590

Documentation

• Fix broken URLs in repository README file - see #2888.
• Update package files to reflect current CCR moderation requirements - see #2920.

Enhancements

• Upgrade to target version 6.4.0 of NuGet.Client assemblies - see #508.
• Support Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (semver) - see #1610.

Bug Fixes

• Running choco new --file returns "Cannot Combine Path" Error when Chocolatey Licensed Extension is installed and other assemblies are present in the extensions folder - see #2865
• Selecting [A] Yes to all at package script prompt does not work correctly - see #2872
• Attempting to upgrade multiple packages at once causes an error to be thrown about configuration backups - see #2884

As part of this release we had 29 issues closed.

[!NOTE]

As part of this release, we have added the functionality to allow officially signed extensions, other than Chocolatey Licensed Extension, to be loaded dynamically. See #2693.

Feature

• Allow post/pre hooks to run on upgrade/install/uninstall - see #1185

Deprecated Features

• Deprecate side-by-side installs - see #2787

Bug Fixes

• Fix - Upgrade all reuses overridden package parameters when useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is turned on - see #1443
• Fix - Wrong item set for overriding credentials when using remembered arguments during upgrade - see #2752
• Fix - Python alternative source doesn't create arguments correctly due to spelling mistake - see #2777
• Fix - Directory permissions not set when installed from PowerShell 7.2.5 - see #2789

Improvements

• [Security] Unable to extract files from nupkg when different file name encoding is used - see #2816
• Add cmdlet for acquiring paths set in environment variables that should not be used directly - see #2860
• Add support for the --pin option on the install and upgrade commands - see #798
• Packages.config should include all options (including ignorechecksums) - see #886
• Add option to skip file logging for Zip file extraction in the Get-ChocolateyUnZip and Install-ChocolateyZipPackage cmdlets - see #1332
• List parameters in templates - see #2500
• ChocolateyTabExpansion.ps1 can cause slow auto-complete in PowerShell - see #2556
• Change source type on source runners to be a generic string - see #2791
• Remove trailing semicolon in templates and tests - see #2807

Documentation

• Minor spelling errors in chocolatey/choco - see #2465
• Update brand names - see #2747

:warning: WARNING

If you use Chocolatey Licensed Extension you will need to install v2.2.0 of Chocolatey Licensed Extension to use all the new functionality that has been added to Chocolatey CLI v0.11.0.

Breaking Changes

• Disable importing / loading of DLL in the extension folder - see #2333
• choco list -e -a returns pre-releases even when --pre is not passed - see #2304

Bug Fixes

• Fix - Prevent creation of empty nuget.config in user appdata folder - see #2233
• Fix - Upgrade all with remembered arguments changes packages to pre-release - see #2111
• Fix - Software applications are being reported as not being managed by Chocolatey when their associated package is installed - see #2092
• Fix - Unable to remove API Key with choco apikey command - see #1889
• Fix - Not all package versions are returned when running running choco list --all-versions --exact - see #1843
• Fix - Upgrade all reuses overridden package parameters when useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is turned on - see #1443
• Fix - choco pack fails when running on Mono when current directory is not the same one that contains the .nuspec being packed - see #2263
• Fix - Running choco pack on Mono on Linux will not include any files in .nupkg if there is no files element in the .nuspec - see #2258
• Fix - Nuspec files with forward slash creates nested layer of directories when packed on Windows - see #2166
• Fix - Prevent loading of Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension assembly - see #2078
• Fix - Working directory always being replaced with configured cache location when using Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin - see #2051
• Fix - Temp location can change unexpectedly when using System credentials - see #2044
• Fix - Incorrect output regarding package files when package can't be found to be downloaded - see #1962

Improvements

• [Security] XML External Entity attack in log4net (CVE-2018-1285) - see #2266
• Provide ability to export all currently installed packages to a packages.config file - see #357
• Provide ability to execute PowerShell script right before installation starts when using Install-ChocolateyPackage - see #1060
• Add ChocolateyExitOnRebootDetected feature setting to environment variables for usage within package scripts - see #1983
• Only search top level package folders when running the remove pending packages task - see #1866
• Change default repository in the chocolatey.config to community.chocolatey.org - see #2231
• Support UnzipLocation as an alias to Destination parameter in the Get-ChocolateyUnzip function - see #2203
• API - Allow Lets.GetChocolatey to not initialize logging - see #2124
• Provide ability to install msp patch files using Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage function - see #2112
• Add ability to use authorization headers in the Get-WebFile function - see #1998
• Ensure nuspec files generated from the choco new command use UTF-8 without a byte order mark - see #1364
• Provide top level help command explaining what commands can be executed - see #944
• Ensure correct path separator in nuspec files is used on different operating systems - see #502
• Remove unused variable in uninstall template generated from choco new command - see #2114

Documentation

• Clarify the SpecificFolder parameter for helper functions - see #2190
• Update deprecation notice to use outdated command when using version command - see #2048
• Include information about --version option in choco help documentation - see #2049
• Fix examples for Install-ChocolateyPackage function - see #1899
• Terminology improvements in choco.exe help output - see #1861
• Wrong error message shown when using Get-ChocolateyWebFile and forcex86 - see #1859

Release Video

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Bug Fix

• Fix - Chocolatey Licensed Extension is not loaded into PowerShell process when using v0.11.0 - see #2340

Release Video

A short video explaining what is included in this release can be found here: