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By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Friday, November 8, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what are Chocolatey Template Packages!

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey
• #community

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, October 18, 2024

We have just published episode 9 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Thursday, October 17, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what are Chocolatey Template Packages!

• #community
• #community repository
• #moderation

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Wednesday, October 9, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what are Chocolatey extension packages!

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey
• #community

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, September 20, 2024

We have just published episode 8 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Friday, September 20, 2024

For immediate release - Alex Aveldanez joins Chocolatey as a full-time Full Stack Software Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Kim Nordmo|Posted Thursday, September 19, 2024

We are excited to announce the release of Chocolatey Central Management v0.13.0.

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business

By Chris White|Posted Friday, August 30, 2024

We're going back-to-basics on discussing one of our biggest licensed features; Chocolatey Central Management!

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Monday, August 19, 2024

Exporting a list of packages, to then install onto another computer, is very simple with Chocolatey CLI!

• #chocolatey
• #how to
• #packages

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, August 16, 2024

We have just published episode 7 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, July 19, 2024

We have just published episode 6 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Josh King|Posted Friday, July 12, 2024

You've got manual Chocolatey packaging under your belt, now take that to the next level with automation!

• #automation
• #back-to-basics
• #community
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Josh King|Posted Monday, July 1, 2024

Chocolatey Software was proud to sponsor the PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2024. Join us as we recap the event!

• #community
• #powershell
• #powershell summit
• #sponsorship
• #video

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, June 21, 2024

We have just published episode 5 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Josh King|Posted Thursday, June 20, 2024

You're now able to run the Chocolatey Test Environment using Hyper-V rather than just VirtualBox.

• #packaging
• #test-environment

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Wednesday, June 5, 2024

We are excited to announce the release of Chocolatey CLI v2.3.0, Chocolatey Licensed Extension v6.2.0, and Chocolatey Ag

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Friday, May 31, 2024

The Chocolatey Community Repository has reached THREE BILLION INSTALLS!

• #chocolatey
• #chocolatey community repository
• #community
• #news
• #press release

By Josh King|Posted Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Take a peek behind the curtains of the Chocolatey Community Repository and a recent change to its search functionality.

• #api
• #chocolatey community repository
• #community
• #elasticsearch

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, May 17, 2024

We have just published episode 4 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Thursday, May 2, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what is Chocolatey GUI, Self Service and the

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey
• #chocolatey agent
• #community
• #self service

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Monday, April 29, 2024

We have just published episode 3 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Friday, April 12, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what is Chocolatey!

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey
• #community

By Josh King|Posted Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Whether you need a refresher or are just started on your packaging journey, let go back-to-basics on Chocolatey packagin

• #back-to-basics
• #community
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Thursday, March 21, 2024

We have just published episode 2 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Thursday, March 21, 2024

As we close Chocolatey's 13th year, we look back at the last 12 months of achievements for the Chocolatey Team and our C

• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, March 15, 2024

We want to prepare our customers and community on upcoming changes to the Chocolatey Community Repository.

• #api
• #chocolatey community repository
• #community

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, March 1, 2024

We are excited to go back-to-basics on all things Chocolatey by discussing what is the Chocolatey Community Repository!

• #back-to-basics
• #chocolatey community repository
• #community

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Thursday, February 15, 2024

We have just published episode 1 of our livestream, and podcast, Unpacking Software.

• #livestream
• #podcast

By Kim Nordmo|Posted Thursday, January 25, 2024

We are excited to announce the first public release of our Community Validation Extension, that extends Chocolatey CLI w

• #chocolatey cli
• #chocolatey community repository
• #community
• #news
• #open source

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Chocolatey Extensions - the strength of ten packages, plus two!

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Dive into the festive spirit with our Christmas gift to tech enthusiasts — a guide on creating custom Chocolatey package

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, December 18, 2023

Dive into the festive tech wonderland with the magic of Chocolatey — unwrap the secrets of exporting packages for a smoo

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Friday, December 15, 2023

Spice up your holiday coding with a festive twist – create a Chocolatey package adorned with a jolly large binary!

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, December 14, 2023

��✨ Elevate your coding experience with Chocolatey meta packages, orchestrating a symphony of installations for a tech m

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Sprinkle enchantment on computer configurations with Chocolatey's magical packages – where code becomes a technicolor dr

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Spreading Joy with Chocolatey! Creating a Festive Script Package for the Holidays

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, December 11, 2023

Unwrap the magic of deploying simple executables with with Chocolatey Packages

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Friday, December 8, 2023

Unwrap the festive magic of software deployment with Chocolatey Zip Packages

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, December 7, 2023

Explore the holiday magic of Chocolatey MSI packages in our Christmas-themed guide and unwrap the gift of seamless softw

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, December 6, 2023

On the first day of Christmas, Chocolatey gave to me.... Environment Setup!

• #12 days of Chocolatey 2023
• #chocolatey for business
• #packaging
• #tutorial

By Stephanie Hays|Posted Tuesday, November 28, 2023

We are delighted to announce the release of Chocolatey Central Management v0.12.0, featuring seamless Deployment Plan cr

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Monday, October 16, 2023

Chocolatey Software is sponsoring PackagingCon 2023 taking place in Berlin on October 26th to 28th.

• #news
• #packagingcon
• #sponsorship

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, October 6, 2023

We recently made a small but significant change to the Chocolatey CLI install script that stops installation if the dest

• #chocolatey cli
• #chocolatey for business
• #open source

By Rain Sallow|Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2023

We are delighted to announce the release of Chocolatey Central Management v0.11.0, including import/export for Deploymen

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2023

For immediate release - Derek Walker joins Chocolatey as a full-time Infrastructure Operations Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Thursday, August 31, 2023

Gary Ewan Park was recently a guest on the .NET Rocks podcast, where he chatted with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin

• #chocolatey for business
• #open source
• #podcast
• #team

By Stephanie Hays|Posted Thursday, July 27, 2023

At Chocolatey Software, we are thrilled to share an exciting moment of recognition in the world of technology on Linus T

• #business
• #chocolatey cli
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2023

We are delighted to announce the major release of Chocolatey CLI, Chocolatey GUI, Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension vers

• #chocolatey agent
• #chocolatey cli
• #chocolatey for business
• #chocolatey gui
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

As we close Chocolatey's 12th year, we look back at the last 12 months of achievements for the Chocolatey Team and our C

• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2023

We are excited to release the first alpha version of Chocolatey CLI v2.0.0 with .NET 4.8 and NuGet v3 feed support!

• #chocolatey cli
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Josh King|Posted Friday, January 20, 2023

Package Verifier and Scanner moderation services have been upgraded to use Windows Server 2019.

• #chocolatey community repository
• #packaging

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2022

We are very happy to announce that Chocolatey Central Management 0.10.0 has just been released.

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, August 26, 2022

We want to outline changes to the package validation process for the Chocolatey Community Repository that package mainta

• #chocolatey community repository
• #packaging

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, July 25, 2022

For immediate release - Scott Sader joins Chocolatey as Chief Information Security Officer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Friday, June 17, 2022

We are very happy to announce that Chocolatey Central Management 0.9.0 has just been released.

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Thursday, June 2, 2022

In the next version of Chocolatey Central Management, slated for release in June, SQL Server versions of 2012 or later w

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business

By Manfred Wallner|Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Announcing Boxstarter v3.0 Beta.

• #boxstarter
• #news
• #open source

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2022

In light of the recent CVE raised against 7-Zip, we wanted to provide a quick response. The CVE confirms that it covers

• #chocolatey cli
• #security

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Friday, April 15, 2022

Our goal in the recent releases of Chocolatey CLI and Chocolatey Licensed Extension has been to make it easier for custo

• #chocolatey for business

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Friday, April 1, 2022

We wanted to address customer concerns with the recent discovery of the Spring4Shell vulnerability.

• #azure
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release
• #quick deployment environment

By Gary Ewan Park|Posted Thursday, March 31, 2022

Gary Ewan Park was recently a guest on the RunAsRadio podcast, where he chatted with Richard Campbell about what's new i

• #chocolatey for business
• #open source
• #podcast

By Paul Broadwith|Posted Thursday, March 24, 2022

A recent phishing campaign against targets in France used Chocolatey to install software on the target computers. There

• #chocolatey community repository
• #security

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, March 21, 2022

Eleven years ago today the start of Chocolatey was born. We look back at those eleven years at the amazing achievements

• #news
• #press release

By Stephanie Hays|Posted Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Script Builder allows you to bulk install Chocolatey packages in just a few clicks. It provides clear, step-by-step inst

• #ansible
• #chef
• #chocolatey community repository
• #configuration management
• #integrations
• #open source
• #powershell
• #powershell dsc
• #puppet

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, February 16, 2022

We are happy to announce that the Chocolatey Ansible Collection 1.2.0 has just been released.

• #ansible
• #chocolatey
• #collection
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, February 10, 2022

We are excited to announce the release of Chocolatey GUI 0.20.0 and Chocolatey GUI Licensed Extension 0.4.0.

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By TheCakeIsNaOH|Posted Tuesday, January 25, 2022

The first official Chocolatey Docker images have just been released and I am excited to provide you with an overview and

• #docker
• #linux
• #news
• #open source

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2022

We are excited to announce the release of Chocolatey CLI 0.12.0 and Chocolatey Licensed Extension 3.1.0.

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, December 13, 2021

We wanted to address customer concerns with the recent discovery of the Log4j vulnerability.

• #azure
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release
• #quick deployment environment

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, December 9, 2021

We are very happy to announce that Chocolatey Licensed Extension 3.0.0 has just been released.

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Tuesday, October 12, 2021

It's that time of year again. It's October. And that means it's also Hacktoberfest! This year Chocolatey have added 24 o

• #hacktoberfest
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, September 16, 2021

We are very happy to announce the recent release of many Chocolatey products.

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, September 9, 2021

We are about to release a major update to the Chocolatey Licensed Extension that includes a number of bug fixes, some fe

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2021

We are very happy to announce that the Chocolatey for Business QDE Azure Environment has been released on the Azure Mark

• #azure
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release
• #quick deployment environment

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, August 5, 2021

We are very happy to announce that Chocolatey Central Management 0.6.0 has just been released.

• #chocolatey central management
• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Tuesday, June 1, 2021

For immediate release - Cory Knox joins Chocolatey as Junior Software Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Using Jenkins behind a proxy is a pretty straightforward process. However, some proxy configurations provide additional

• #ci
• #jenkins
• #open source
• #pipeline

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Monday, May 10, 2021

For immediate release - Josh King joins Chocolatey as a full-time Infrastructure Operations Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Monday, May 10, 2021

For immediate release - Community member Kim Nordmo joins Chocolatey full time as Package Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Monday, May 3, 2021

For immediate release - James Ruskin joins Chocolatey as Packaging and Infrastructure Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, April 28, 2021

On the 27th April 2021, the Package Scanner Service was fully integrated into the Package Moderation Service that is run

• #chocolatey community repository
• #news
• #open source
• #package scanner
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Friday, January 22, 2021

To achieve speed and to honor our value of simplicity, we need to deconstruct some of the internal infrastructure into s

• #chocolatey community repository
• #news
• #open source
• #press release

By Mukesh Sharma, Chocolatey COO & Co-Founder|Posted Friday, December 11, 2020

Imagine IT as a factory. Imagine walking through the IT factory and seeing that Windows software management is the combi

• #chocolatey for business
• #deployments
• #news
• #press release
• #qde

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Monday, November 16, 2020

We are excited to release the latest version of Chocolatey Central Management Deployments which includes Deployment Sche

• #chocolatey for business
• #deployments
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Monday, August 17, 2020

For immediate release - Ryan Richter joins Chocolatey as Support Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Team|Posted Thursday, May 21, 2020

Deployments will allow you to manage your Windows endpoint machines simply, efficiently, and securely. Your simple and c

• #chocolatey for business
• #deployments
• #news
• #press release

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2020

The Chocolatey Community Repository has reached one billion installations thanks to our amazing community!

• #news
• #press release

By Mukesh Sharma, COO & Co-Founder|Posted Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The customer success team at Chocolatey is helping teams use Chocolatey Self-Service to deliver Remote Work during the C

• #news
• #press release

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2020

As part of the current pandemic, Chocolatey Software is responding in a number of ways. One of those ways is to enable o

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Operations Team|Posted Thursday, January 23, 2020

We will be removing support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 from the Chocolatey Website on 3 February 2020.

• #infrastructure
• #news
• #status

By The Chocolatey Team|Posted Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Community Repository has had numerous disruptions last month. Let's talk about it

• #community
• #community repository
• #news
• #service availability

By Chocolatey Operations Team|Posted Sunday, October 20, 2019

We will be upgrading part of our infrastructure which will result in services being unavailable on 26 October 2019 betwe

• #infrastructure
• #news
• #status

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Friday, September 20, 2019

Chocolatey's website has all new features and improvements to help you get started or maintain your Chocolatey project!

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Monday, August 5, 2019

For immediate release - Adil Leghari joins Chocolatey full time as Solutions Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Events Team|Posted Saturday, April 27, 2019

Chocolatey Fest returns in 2020. Find us at the following conferences this year.

• #announcements
• #chocolatey fest
• #chocolatey for business
• #conference
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Sunday, January 27, 2019

For immediate release - Stephen Valdinger joins Chocolatey as Senior Technical Support Engineer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Events Team|Posted Monday, September 17, 2018

For immediate release - Stephanie Hays joins Chocolatey as a full-time Front-End Web Developer.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2018

For immediate release - Long time community member Paul Broadwith joins Chocolatey full time as Senior Technical Enginee

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey Events Team|Posted Friday, June 15, 2018

For immediate release - Chocolatey announces inaugural conference focused on Windows Automation (WinOps).

• #announcements
• #conference
• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Thursday, June 7, 2018

For immediate release - The Boxstarter project has now moved under the Chocolatey GitHub Organization.

• #news
• #press release

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Sunday, February 11, 2018

For immediate release - Long time community member Gary Ewan Park joins Chocolatey full time as Senior Software Engineer

• #news
• #press release

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Chocolatey's most epic feature is now here! Synchronize a system to bring all software under Chocolatey management in un

• #chocolatey for business
• #news
• #package synchronizer
• #press release
• #sync
• #video

By Chocolatey News Team|Posted Friday, October 14, 2016

For immediate release - Chocolatey names Mukesh Sharma as second executive.

• #news
• #press release

By Derek Robinson|Posted Thursday, October 13, 2016

Your manager may chuckle when you say you’re going to use Chocolatey, but after a little scripting the only sound you’ll

• #how to
• #packaging

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Are you a developer? Want to win two free t-shirts?

• #news

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Saturday, September 17, 2016

Recently Chocolatey's community repository (this site in the packages section) surpassed 50 million package installs! 50

• #news

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The community repository has quite a few packages out there that have great logic. Learn how to take advantage of them w

• #how to
• #internalize
• #packaging

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Friday, April 22, 2016

Chocolatey for Business and Chocolatey Professional availability is coming May 2, 2016.

• #business
• #news
• #professional

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Chocolatey recently underwent a bit of a fancy facelift. We are excited to unveil what that looks like!

• #news

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Monday, March 28, 2016

The Chocolatey team remembers the last 5 years with Chocolatey. Did you know that Chocolatey derives its name from NuGet

• #news

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Creating Chocolatey packages can save you a lot of time. And Chocolatey has ways to make that process much smoother.

• #how to
• #packaging

By Rob Reynolds|Posted Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Hosting your own server can be easy. Here's what you need to know.

• #how to
• #packaging
• #server