Download Chocolatey 2.0.0

Chocolatey is an open source package manager that allows you to install, update and remove software on your computer via the command line or PowerShell. There are more than 9,700 on the Chocolatey website packages that are maintained by the community. Chocolatey is free to use, but there are also paid performances, which offer more options or are intended for companies. The changelog for version 2.0.0 can be found below.

Breaking Changes

• Change behavior of chocolate list to be local only – see #158.
• Prevent usage of leading 0 in package version numbers – see #1174.
• choco config list –limit-output does not limit output as expected – see #2013.
• Remove Get-BinRoot Chocolatey helper function – see #2623.
• Remove the default push location when uploading/pushing packages – see #2629.
• Remove deprecated configurations from Config – see #2630.
• Remove deprecated Chocolatey shims (chocolatey, cinst, clist, cpush, cuninst, cup) – see #2642.
• Upgrade to target version 4.8 of the .NET Framework – see #2738.
• Fix spelling mistake in the extract_binary_file_from_assembly function – see #2776.
• Remove side-by-side installs – see #2788.
• Migrate from Rx-* packages to System.Reactive.* packages – see #2896.
• Switch to use only the recommended TLS versions without fallback to earlier insecure options – see #2902.
• Rename or migrate away from custom HashCode class – see #2909.
• Remove WebPI alternative source – see #2980.
• Remove the –remove option in apikey command and replace with remove subcommand – see #2984.
• choco config list should only include information about config – see #2986.
• Disallow passing in a path to a NUPKG file directly when installing/upgrading packages – see #3008.
• Introduce upper limit when querying for packages and warn when threshold is close to being hit – see #3014.

Bug fixes

• Fix – NuGet does not deal with blocking version conflicts from existing installed packages – see #116.
• Fix – NuGet doesn’t handle conflicts of versions in an install request when HighestVersion dependency – see #507.
• Fix – Filenames that contain apostrophes aren’t handled correctly when calculating checksums – see #1590.
• Fix – Chocolatey CLI does not override NuGet proxy with its own – see #1720.
• Fix – choco pack command fails with error on Linux when using file greater than 2 GB – see #2278.
• Fix – choco info command with no package id defined returns 0 packages found rather than provide a warning – see #2899.

Documentation

• Fix broken URLs in repository README file – see #2888.
• Update Minimum Windows Server OS to Server 2008 R2 – see #2903.
• Update package files to reflect current Chocolatey Community Repository moderation requirements – see #2920.
• Fix typos and spelling errors – see #2990.

Improvements

• Ability to specify a default source when doing choco push – see #62.
• Upgrade to target version 3.1.0 of Chocolatey.NuGet.Client assemblies – see #508.
• Support Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (semver) – see #1610.
• Ensure that the client version used when querying a repository is the version of the underlying NuGet.Client library – see #1935.
• Alphabetically sort the output from the feature config source and apikey list command – see #2814.
• Add ability to get status of an individual feature (choco feature get) – see #2815.
• Provide ability to navigate directly to online version of help documentation for a command – see #2867.
• PowerShell tab completion should only show commands/options for currently installed license – see #2887.
• Adjust visibility / remove non-interface public methods on CygwinService – see #3028.
• MSI Build should be present in this repository – see #3061.
• Chocolatey products should no longer warn about possible errors when upgrading from versions before 1.0.0 – see #3097.
• Sort list of installed/upgraded packages – see #3112.