Chocolatey v0.9.8.3 Release Notes
Release Date: 2011-07-07 // almost 13 years ago-
💥 BREAKING CHANGES
- Chocolatey no longer runs the entire powershell script as an administrator. With the addition of the Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin, this is how you will get to administrative tasks outside of the helpers.
🔋 FEATURES
- New chocolatey command! InstallMissing allows you to install a package only if it is not already installed. Shortcut is 'cinstm'.
- New Helper! Install-ChocolateyPath - give it a path for out of band items that are not imported to path with chocolatey
- New Helper! Start-ChocolateyProcessAsAdmin - this allows you to run processes as administrator
- New Helper! Install-ChocolateyDesktopLink - put shortcuts on the desktop
👌 IMPROVEMENTS
- NuGet updated to v1.4
- Much of the error handling is improved. There are two new Helpers to call (ChocolateySuccess and Write-ChocolateyFailure).
- Chocolatey no longer needs administrative rights to install itself.