2016.12.17

NOTE: Minimal PowerShell version required to run AU is now 5.0 instead of 4.0. This wont affect AppVeyor builds, but might affect local runs. Please update your local PowerShell version (cinst powershell) if you run it locally.

• New function Get-RemoteChecksum that can be used instead of automatic checksum.
• Get-AuPackages now accepts array of globs, for example lsau 'cpu-z*','p*','copyq'.
• Update-AUPackages
  • New plugin History that creates markdown report of package updates grouped by dates.
  • Report plugin
    • Added link to packageSourceUrl and projectUrl.
    • New parameter Title to change report title.
    • New parameters for markdown report - IconSize and NoIcons. Icons are now shown by default.
  • Plugins documentation updated.
  • Test-Package: new parameter VagrantNoClear that will not delete existing packages from the vagrant package directory.
  • update.ps1 script can now return keyword ignore to cause udpateall to not report it as an error in output.
• Update-Package
  • au_GetLatest can now force update by setting $global:au_Force = $true.
• Refactoring code to use PowerShell 5 classes, functions now return [AUPackage] object.

Bugfixes

• Git plugin bugfixes.
• Small fixes and tweaks all around.
• Packages shouldn't drop from the results now no matter what happens with the updateall thread.
• $Latest.FileType is not overwritten when its set in the au_GetLatest.

CD

Changes in au-packages-template:

• Added new script test_all.ps1 to force test all desired packages and randomly test package groups. See wiki page setting up the force test for how to set this up on AppVeyor.

2016.11.5

• Update-Package
  • It now automatically adds $Latest.Filetype based on the extension of the first URL it finds.

CD

• Added script scripts\Install-AU.ps1 to install any AU version or branch using git tags.

Changes in au-packages-template:

• Added new AppVeyor commit command [PUSH pkg1 ... pkgN] to push any package to the community repository.

Bugfixes

• Fixed missing temporary directory for package download ref.

2016.10.30

• Update-Package
  • Show 'URL check' in output.
  • $global:au_Version can now be used when update is forced to explicitly provide version.
  • Invalid version in the nuspec file doesn't throw error any more but uses version 0.0 with warning.
• Update-AUPackages
  • Added BeforeEach and AfterEach scripts to Options.
  • New Option UpdateTimeout to limit update total execution time (#38).
  • Git plugin: only push files that are changed, not entire package content.
• Test-Package
  • New string parameter Vagrant and global variable $au_Vagrant that contain path to the chocolatey test environment so you can test the package using the Vagrant system.
• PowerShell documentation improved.

Bugfixes

• Fixed frequent URL check timeout #35.
• AU updated nuspec file to UTF-8 with BOM #39.
• Checksum verification mode didn't work with updateall #36.
• Small fixes.

CD

Changes in au-packages-template:

• update_all.ps1 now accepts ForcedPackages and Root parameters.
• AppVeyor commit message parsing for AU options.

2016.9.25

NOTE: This update breaks compatibility with existing update_all.ps1 scripts - parameter Options
is now of the type ordered HashTable ( [ordered]@{...} ). This is the only required change for the script
to continue working and behave the same as before, however, other things are required in order to fully use AU features:

• Remove the user scripts Save-XXX.ps1 as improved versions now come with AU (plugins).
• Take a look at the update_all.ps1
  to see how plugins are used and setup. Migrate current custom options to the new style.
  See plugins section for details.

Take a look at the working example and plugin wiki page.

Changes

• Update-Package
  • Support for Semantic Versioning #21.
• Test-Package
  • Optional parameter Nu to test package from the .nupkg, .nuspec or directory.
  • Test chocolatey uninstaller.
  • Refactoring.
• Installer improvements.
• Update-AUPackages
  • Plugin system with the following default plugins included:
    • RunInfo - Save run info to the CliXml file and exclude sensitive information.
    • Report - Saves run info as a report file via included templates (currently markdown and text).
    • Gist - Save files as anonymous or user gists.
    • Git - Commits package changes to the git repository.
    • Mail - Send mail with attachments.
  • New parameter NoPlugins (by default $Env:au_NoPlugins to disable all plugins.
  • New option parameter PluginPath to specify additional path where plugins are located.
  • Output now shows if Push and Force options are used.
• Created au-packages-template to quick start AU.
• Documentation is rewritten and wiki created.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug due to the typo when pushing and sorting packages when executing Update-AUPackages.

CD

• New ./test.ps1 script that run some or all of the tests.
• AU version environment variable added to appveyor.yml.

2016.9.21

Bugfixes

• Push was not working when package was updated.

2016.9.14.233253

• Update-Package
  • New alias lsau.
  • Return an object of type AUPackage instead of text.
  • New parameters
    • NoHostOutput to not show any Write-Host output.
    • Result to hold the name of the global output variable.
    • Verbose parameter.
  • NuspecVersion added to the $Latest HashTable.
  • Pester tests.
  • run standalone, update in the package directory calls ./update.ps1.
• README.md made available via man about_au.
• Consider global variable $au_root when looking for AU packages.
• Optimization and refactoring.
• Bugfixes
  • Update-Packages exception when au_GetLatests returned nothing.
  • $Latest.Version remains set to remote version when forcing update.

CD

• Build module script.
• Build chocolatey package script.
• Script to publish to Github, Chocolatey and PSGallery.
• install.ps1 script to install/remove Powershell module in the current system.
• AppVeyor automatic build.

2016.8.15

• Choco fix notation with Force parameter.
• ChecksumXX and ChecksumTypeXX hash keys can be provided in au_GetLatest.
• Force option in updateall
• Consider cached nuget api key
• Bugfixes

2016.8.13

• Fixed cpack collision with that of CMake

2016.8.12

• Fixes for choco version 0.10.0

2016.8.7

• Automatic checksum
• Raise errors on search pattern not found
• Bugfixes and small improvements