chocolatey/choco 2.3.0

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Read our blog post about this release.

As part of this release we had 32 issues closed.

Deprecated Feature

• Deprecate unpackself command - see #3426.

Features

• Save software install location for future use - see #3315.
• Allow viewing package creation validation rules via new choco rule command - see #3381.

Bug Fixes

• Fix - Ensure Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage does not add a trailing space to silent arguments - see #2345.
• Fix - Ensure Install-ChocolateyPath adds a new entry to the PATH when part of it is already there - see #3318.
• Fix - Using Install-ChocolateyPath -PathType Machine in a non-admin context spawns PowerShell endlessly and never completes - see #3424.

Improvements

• Allow all packages from a source to be installed - see #23.
• Allow the ability to add the configured sources when using the --source option - see #72.
• Add Uninstall-ChocolateyPath function to manage removing entries from PATH - see #310.
• Verify the checksum of a package before installation, and fail if not matched - see #1144.
• Show remembered arguments for packages - see #1310.
• Add the source URL where the package was downloaded from, to the output of the choco install and choco upgrade commands - see #1485.
• choco apikey - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #1759.
• choco config - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #1760.
• choco feature - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #1761.
• choco pin - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #1762.
• choco source - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #1764.
• choco upgrade - Exit 2 if nothing to do (enhanced exit code) - see #2200.
• Allow upgrading a pinned package without removing the pin beforehand - see #2050.
• Update OS_NAME environment variable to support Windows 11 and Server 2019/2022 - see #2754.
• Rerunning Install Script after reboot should not be necessary - see #3327.
• Improve package dependency lookup when an exact version is defined - see #3433.

Documentation

• Clarify what --include-programs option does, in the help output - see #147.
• Fix grammar in the pending reboot warning message - see #3164.
• Improve the feature DisableCompatibilityChecks help description - see #3296.
• Fix typos and punctuation in choco feature and choco config error output - see #3324.
• Clarify Proxy BypassList value must be a regular expression, in the help output - see #3401.
• Remove reference of unused zip.sh from README.md file - see #3402.