Software Update: Chocolatey 1.1.0

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 website of Chocolatey there are a small 9000 packages maintained by the community. Chocolatey is free to use, but there are also paid performances, which are intended, among other things, for companies. Version 1.1.0 has been released and its release notes mention the following changes and improvements:

Bug Fixes

• Fix – Python alternate source does not handle all keyword correctly – see #2540
• Fix – Incorrect error message is displayed when chocolatey.config becomes corrupt – see #2525
• Fix – When running the choco outdated command the wrong exit code is shown when there is a pinned package and the –ignore-pinned option is being used – see #1896
• Fix – Windows PowerShell incorrectly identifies a PowerShell file that is UTF8 encoded with a BOM as being signed if it is a single newline – see #2663
• Fix – Unable to install Chocolatey using PowerShell Core – see #2083

Improvements

• Support installation checks for incompatible Licensed Extension when running choco upgrade chocolatey – see #2659
• Support runtime checks for incompatible Chocolatey CLI and Chocolatey Licensed Extension versions – see #2660
  • When triggered, these checks will output a warning and the beginning of the command execution, and at the end of it. To acknowledge these warnings you can either pass the –skip-compatibility-checks option when executing a command, or you can enable the DisableCompatibilityChecks feature using the following command choco feature enable –name=”‘disableCompatibilityChecks'”
• Include the latest version of 7zip (v21.07) within Chocolatey installation – see #2650