Software update: Chocolatey 1.2.0

Chocolatey is an open source package manager, which can be used to install, update and uninstall software on the computer via the command line or PowerShell. The Chocolatey website lists a small 9400 packages maintained by the community. Chocolatey is free to use, but there are also paid performances, which are intended for companies, among others. Version 1.2.0 has been released and its release notes mention the following changes and improvements:

Features

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

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
• Deprecate side by side installs – see #2787
• 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