chocolatey/choco 2.1.0

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Refer to our Upgrade Guide for recommendations before upgrading from 1.x versions to 2.x.

As part of this release we had 17 issues closed.

Bug Fixes

• Fix - Warning about threshold not shown for multiple sources - see #3190.
• Fix - System proxy settings (automatically detect settings) are no longer used in v2.0.0 - see #3181.
• Fix - Incorrect implementation of the RuleIdEqualityComparer.Equals method - see #3182.
• Fix - choco pin remove -n packagename removes pin for a different package - see #3196.
• Fix - Package version normalization is not being applied everywhere - see #3174.
• Fix - Chocolatey CLI tries to load the licensed environment settings when the licensed extension assembly is not supposed to be loaded - see #3224.
• Fix - Initial chocolatey.config configuration file is initialized with empty descriptions - see #3201.
• Fix - Chocolatey CLI does not use the cachelocation which is configured within the chocolatey.config file - see #3225.
• Fix - Checking for presence of Chocolatey license file in tab expansion PowerShell script generates $error - see #3218.

Improvements

• Create PowerShell helper function to read config values - see #2854.
• Add command to allow purging of cached HTTP queries - see #3194.
• Provide option for Chocolatey CLI commands to skip cached query results - see #3193.
• Degraded performance after upgrading to version Chocolatey CLI v2.0.0 - see #3183.
• choco search command does not use previously cached results - see #3125.

Documentation

• Update contributing documentation to be clearer for newcomers - see #3108.