2022.10.24

• Added $au_GalleryPackageRootUrl as a slightly more flexible alternative to $au_GalleryUrl (#250)
  • $au_GalleryUrl global variable is still maintained for compatibility
  • Can specify as an environment variable $env:au_GalleryPackageRootUrl when working with Update-AUPackages (update_all.ps1) (#254)
  • Can specify as a global variable in update.ps1 to override on per package basis.
• Plugins:
  • History:
    • History plugin now ignores merges (#258)
    • Package_Source_Root_Url param added to History plugin so links can be configured for non-Github users. (related to #257)
  • Report:
    • Package_Source_Root_Url param added to Markdown report type so links can be configured for non-Github users. (#257)
    • Package_Source_Branch parameter added to Markdown report type to configure the branch name for the package source if not using master. (#244)
  • PullRequest: New plugin that creates a GitHub pull request for the updated packages. (#269)

2021.7.18

• Fixed bad packaging of previous version

2021.6.27

• Linux support (#234)
• TLS settings updated (#216)
• Plugins:
  • Git: Added AddNew parameter to allow adding new packages, created by the AU script (#239)
  • Git: Changed Branch parameter to create branch if it doesnt exist
  • History: Changed so it looks into all branches for AU commit messages

2020.11.21

• Get-RemoteFiles now considers $Latest.Options.Headers
• TLS settings updated (#216)
• Support ChocolateyPackageFolder environment variable (#255)
• Improved Powershell 7 compatibility (#208)
• Set the AU version to the last commit date (#217)

Plugins:

• GitLab: new plugin (#195)
• Gist: option for secret gist and Enterprise API
• GitReleases: Added a Branch parameter (#227)

2019.5.22

• Get-RemoteChecksum: New parameter Headers
• Plugins:
  • New plugin: Gitter
  • New plugin: Snippet

Bugfixes

• Fixed header handling during request (#164)
• Push errors are not repeated or ignored on (#175)
• Few small changes and fixes

2018.5.18

• Update-Package:
  • Now you can pass HTTP/HTTPS headers to $Latest.Options.Headers to avoid Unauthorized errors while checking URLs.
  • Package Gallery URL is no longer hard-coded but taken from the $au_GalleryUrl if it exists (#95)
• Update-AUPackages: Added NoCheckChocoVersion option.
• Plugins:
  • Git: Added Branch parameter to specify a branch name
  • Mail: Added From parameter to be used with mail servers that do not allow non-existent email addresses.

Bugfixes

• Gist plugin: Security protocol is set according to updated Github requirements.
• Get-RemoteFiles: Fixed wrong checksum type being set on 64bit url

2018.1.11

• Update-AuPackage
  • New feature streams that extends au_GetLatest with option to return multiple HashTables (one for each stream).
  • New parameter IncludeStream to force update of specific stream.
• au_BeforeUpdate and au_AfterUpdate now have parameter Package of type [AUPackage] which you can use among other things to modify the Nuspec data.
• Added new function Set-DescriptionFromReadme that is called automatically when README.md is present in the package folder (#85). See documentation.
• Plugins:
  • New plugin: GitReleases creates Github release on successifully pushed packages.
  • Git: new parameter Strategy with options on how to commit repository changes
  • Report: symbols in markdown report to mark embedded and stream packages

2017.8.30

• Update-AUPackages
  • New options to handle update.ps1 errors: IgnoreOn, RepeatOn,RepeatCount,RepeatSleep. See documentation. (#76)
  • New option WhatIf option that will trigger WhatIf on all packages.
  • New AUPackage properties: Ignored (boolean) and IgnoreMessage.
  • Report plugin: IgnoreMessage is added in the ignore section.
• Update-AuPackage
  • Added parameter WhatIf that will save and restore the package. See documentation. (#30)
  • au_GetLatest can now return ignore to make package ignored in the updateall context.

Bugfixes

• Git plugin: package that changed $Latest.PackageName was not pushed when updated (#66).

2017.3.29

• Get-RemoteFiles
  • NoSuffix switch to not add _x32 and/or _x64 suffix at the end of the file names.
  • Now also sets ChecksumTypeXX and FileNameXX and accepts Algorithm parameter.

Bugfixes

• Fix ps1 files encoded in UTF8 without BOM being treated as ANSI.
• Fix chocolatey.org package check using wrong package name when overridden in update.ps1.

2017.1.14

NOTE: License changed from MIT to GPL2.

• New function Get-RemoteFiles. See documentation.
• Update-Package
  • Support newer TLS version support by setting the SecurityProtocol property of ServicePointManager.
• Posh 5 dependency removed for chocolatey package because it is not practical.

Bugfixes

• Fix encoding of nuspec (UTF-8 NO BOM) and ps1 (UTF-8 BOM) files.