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boxstarter - 3.0.3 Latest Release

Published by choco-bot about 1 year ago

As part of this release we had 1 issue closed.

Bug Fix

Bootstrapping Boxstarter fails due to Chocolatey directory already existing - see #548.

boxstarter - 3.0.2

Published by choco-bot over 1 year ago

As part of this release we had 2 issues closed.

Bug Fixes

Fix - Certain Chocolatey commands, such as choco list, do not work as intended as parameters are not passed correctly - see #536.
F9x - Boxstarter (weblauncher) always installs latest version of Chocolatey - see #537.

boxstarter - 3.0.1

Published by choco-bot over 1 year ago

As part of this release we had 7 issues closed.

Bug Fixes

Fix - Lots of verbose output noise when installing Chocolatey packages using Boxstarter 3.0.0 - see #501.
Fix - Update iconUrl to a domain owned directly by Chocolatey - see #508.
Fix - Launch from Web: Script is only executed on second execution - see #518.
Fix - Bootstrapper is failing with Chocolatey v2.0.0 - see #532.

Documentation

Fix broken link to documentation site - see #510.
Fix typo in README.md - see #511.

boxstarter - 3.0.0

Published by gep13 over 2 years ago

As part of this release we had 13 issues closed.

Boxstarter version 3.0 marks the beginning of a new era of Boxstarter and Chocolatey.

Bug Fixes

Unable to use Boxstarter when using a licensed version of Chocolatey - see #247
Install-BoxstarterPackage and boxtarter.bat not behaving the same - see #423
Prevent the $env:temp variable from being changed on every run of Install-BoxstarterPackage - see #442
Parameter '-StopOnPackageFailure' should work without requiring parameter '-RebootCodes' - see #451
Prevent error when installing more than one Chocolatey font package - see #455

Improvements

Use the installed version of Chocolatey rather than shipping chocolatey.dll as part of Boxstarter - see #394
Add ability in Set-WindowsExplorerOptions cmdlet to allow for enabling and disabling of check boxes next to items - see #443
Add Chocolatey specific metadata to all nuspec files - see #448

Documentation

Provide clarity about how Chocolatey is used/executed when running under Boxstarter - see #369

boxstarter - 3.0.0-beta-20220427-21

Published by gep13 over 2 years ago

Everything that was shipped in this beta release has been rolled into the 3.0.0 release.

boxstarter - v2.13.0

Published by gep13 about 4 years ago

As part of this release we had 15 issues closed:

Security:

CVE-2020-15264 Boxstarter folder allows write access for standard users;

Bug:

#405 Improper parsing of Chocolatey parameters
#265 Boxstarter is not parsing Chocolatey pin and source parameters correctly
#420 Chocolatey fails to install due to chocolatey.org TLS 1.2 requirements not being set in install script
#376 Boxstarter should detect if Chocolatey can be installed and stop gracefully
#389 Boxstarter -RebootCodes Parameter is not consistent
#336 Remove Boxstarter desktop shortcut at uninstall and document uninstall process

Documentation:

#435 Document the -DelegateChocoSources parameter
#424 Document Set-TaskbarOptions -AlwaysShowIconsOn cannot be used with other options
#331 Fix documentation for BoxstarterConnectionConfig

Enhancement:

#399 Add multiple monitor support to Set-TaskbarOptions
#382 Stop Boxstarter continuing on first package install failure
#387 Add feature to manage page file
#26 Add option to disable desktop icon
#308 Add support for SnapAssist

boxstarter - v2.12.0

Published by gep13 almost 6 years ago

2.11.0 packages missing chocolatey dlls for remote installs
Build script install deprecated package WindowsAzurePowershell
implement DelegateChocoSources switch to enable source feed passing
Chocolatey Package - include verification/license files
Chocolatey Packages - Don't include XML files
SignTool error when running build.bat
No Visual Studio Prereqs Specified In Docs

boxstarter - v2.11.0

Published by gep13 over 6 years ago

Revert vendored Chocolatey to stable 0.10.5
Add a ShowRibbon for Windows Explorer
Use System.IO.Compression.FileSystem for boxstarter module expansion on modern PowerShell versions
Add file64 param to fix 64 bit binary installs

boxstarter - v2.10.3

Published by mwrock about 7 years ago

Revert vendored chocolatey to stable 0.10.5
Fix HRESULT code for WU_E_INSTALL_NOT_ALLOWED
Handle the case where the Windows Update Agent is updating itself
Install boxstarter to macine instead of user

boxstarter - v2.10.0

Published by mwrock about 7 years ago

Revert vendored chocolatey to stable 0.10.5
Fix HRESULT code for WU_E_INSTALL_NOT_ALLOWED
Handle the case where the Windows Update Agent is updating itself
Install boxstarter to macine instead of user

boxstarter - v2.9.26