Software Update: Chocolatey 0.10.7

Chocolatey is an open source package manager, which can be used to install, update and remove software on the computer via the command line or powershell. On the Chocolatey website there are about 5000 so-called packages maintained by the community. Chocolatey is free to use, but there are also paid performances, which are intended, among other things, for companies. Chocolatey’s version 0.10.7 was recently released and the changelog for that release looks like this:

Breaking changes

Set requested execution level back to asInvoker while determining more advanced elevated scenarios – see #1324

After much deliberation with the community, we’re moving execution policy back to the default of asInvoker to make it work like it did prior to 0.10.4. However we are leaving it open for you to change it to whatever execution level you want by keeping the manifest external from choco.exe. We will be looking more at advanced scenarios – the discussion is at #1307. If you don’t have a GitHub account, feel free to start a thread on the mailing list (and if you are a customer, you have private channels to voice your opinions on this change).

Moving to “asInvoker” means that Chocolatey will not ask for elevated privileges prior to execution, so you will need to remember to do that yourself. If you go to $env:ChocolateyInstall, you will find choco.exe.manifest, and you have freedom to adjust the execution level as you see fit. There is one catch, you will need to do it on every install/upgrade of Chocolatey until #1206 has been implemented.

Bug fixes

• Add file/file64 not as aliases, but use them to set url/url64 if empty – see #1323
• Automatic Uninstaller doesn’t split multiple paths – see #1327
• choco list / search / info – fails with local directory source – see #1325
• When version is four digits, Chocolatey version heading is not shown – see #1326
• search / list – page/page-size not honored for exact search in 0.10.6 – see #1322
• Deserializing failures on package info files should not fail the choco run – see #1328

Improvements

• Use $packageArgs in default template for uninstall script – see #1330