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Windows Software Management Automation - Manage zips, scripts, binaries & installers with PowerShell and deploy everywhere!

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If your imaging process feels slow or bloated, this session’s for you. October Unwrapping Chocolatey webinar, “Streamlining Your Baseline,” is now on-demand!
See how Chocolatey helps you simplify Windows prep, shrink golden images, and boost efficiency.

🎬 Watch the replay → bit.ly/4pxkMHb
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining your Baseline
Watch the on demand recording of our Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream to discover how to integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep steps, and boost efficiency.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🚗💨 Driver updates slowing you down? Join us live for Unwrapping Chocolatey: Deploy Drivers Dependably on Nov 20 @ 12 PM EST / 5 PM UTC. Learn to simplify, template, and automate driver updates — for good! 🍫

👉 Register now: bit.ly/3JnjRsy
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Deploy Drivers Dependably
Is delivering driver updates a pain in the rear? It doesn't have to be, and in this edition of Unwrapping Chocolatey, we’ll show you how to make driver management a treat! Join us 20 November 2025.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Chocolatey was recently featured by XDA Developers as one of the essential command-line utilities every power user should know.

See how Chocolatey brings a Linux-style package management experience to Windows. Read the full article: www.xda-developers.com/essential-co...
6 essential command-line utilities every power user needs to master
These CLI tools will make you wonder how you ever lived without them
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October 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Missed our October Unwrapping Chocolatey session? It’s now on-demand and free to watch! 🎥

Learn how to:
💡 Integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process
⚙️ Shrink golden images
🚀 Reduce Windows prep steps
💪 Streamline your baseline for faster, cleaner builds

👉 Watch now: mailchi.mp/chocolatey/u...
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining your Baseline
Watch the on demand recording of our Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream to discover how to integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep steps, and boost efficiency.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⏰ Happening TOMORROW!
Join us for Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining Your Baseline to discover how to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep, and make your process more efficient.

🎥 Live + interactive
📅 Tomorrow — be there!

Register here ➡ mailchi.mp/chocolatey/u...
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining your Baseline
On 16 October 2025, we’re zeroing in on streamlining your baseline in our next livestream. Discover how to integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep steps, and boost efficiency—all while getting your top q
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October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Big performance update! Our latest blog dives into repository optimizations that make Chocolatey faster, more reliable, and better for everyone.
Whether you’re a maintainer, package author, or user — you’ll want to see what’s under the hood.

🔍 Read more: blog.chocolatey.org/2025/09/choc...
Chocolatey Software Blog | Chocolatey Community Repository Optimizations
The Chocolatey Community Repository gets a boost!
blog.chocolatey.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
⚡ Don’t miss this one! Next week, Unwrapping Chocolatey will dive into practical ways to streamline your baseline.

You’ll see step-by-step tutorials AND get your questions answered live by the Chocolatey experts.

📅 Save your spot today → mailchi.mp/chocolatey/u...
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining your Baseline
On 16 October 2025, we’re zeroing in on streamlining your baseline in our next livestream. Discover how to integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep steps, and boost efficiency—all while getting your top q
mailchi.mp
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We’re proud to announce that Chocolatey is a sponsor at KCDC2025!
Join us as we support the security and developer community at one of the top conferences in the space.
Learn more about our involvement, what we’ll be showing there, and how you can connect with us: blog.chocolatey.org/2025/09/choc...
Chocolatey Software Blog | Chocolatey Sponsors KCDC 2025
Chocolatey Software was proud to sponsor KCDC 2025, held in Kansas City, Missouri, August 14-16, 2025.
blog.chocolatey.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🚀 Chocolatey has officially crossed 4 billion installs from the Community Repository!

It took:
➡ 9 years to hit 1 billion
➡ 2.3 years to hit 2 billion
➡ 1.7 years to hit 3 billion
➡ Just 1.2 years to hit 4 billion

📊 Where do you think 5 billion will land? Place your bets →
October 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Missed our September Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream? 🎥 Good news: it’s now available on-demand & free to watch!

Learn everything you need to know about package extensions:
✔ What they are
✔ Why you’d build them
✔ How to create them
✔ Real-world examples

👉 Watch now: mailchi.mp/chocolatey/u...
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Packaging Extensions
Watch the recording of our Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream on Packaging Extensions! Learn the different ways you can make them, why you'd want to make them, and see examples of some existing extensions you can reference as you build your own.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We have completed maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository and are now back to operating normally. Thank you for your patience during this time.
We are starting scheduled maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository now and expect this to be finished by 22:00 UTC.

Please follow our status page for updates: status.chocolatey.org/issues/2025-...
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository (community.chocolatey.org) on 2025-09-28, between 21:00 and 22:00 UTC. Please visit our status page for updates.

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September 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We are starting scheduled maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository now and expect this to be finished by 22:00 UTC.

Please follow our status page for updates: status.chocolatey.org/issues/2025-...
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository (community.chocolatey.org) on 2025-09-28, between 21:00 and 22:00 UTC. Please visit our status page for updates.

status.chocolatey.org/issues/2025-...
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
📢 New month, new Unwrapping Chocolatey!

October's Live session is all about streamlining your baseline. Learn how to:
✔ Integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process
✔ Shrink golden images
✔ Reduce Windows prep steps
✔ Boost efficiency

🎥 Register now: bit.ly/4pxkMHb
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Streamlining your Baseline
On 16 October 2025, we’re zeroing in on streamlining your baseline in our next livestream. Discover how to integrate Chocolatey into your imaging process to shrink golden images, reduce Windows prep steps, and boost efficiency—all while getting your top q
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September 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We will be performing scheduled maintenance on the Chocolatey Community Repository (community.chocolatey.org) on 2025-09-28, between 21:00 and 22:00 UTC. Please visit our status page for updates.

status.chocolatey.org/issues/2025-...
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Find out how Chocolatey For #Business enables you to mitigate #risks in your organization with simple, repeatable and rapid #automated #software #deployment.

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Chocolatey for Business - Features
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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September 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
⏰ Happening TOMORROW -18 September!

Tomorrow's Unwrapping Chocolatey webinar is all about package extensions. Learn how to create them, when to use them, and see examples in action.

🎥 Live with the Chocolatey team
📅 Tomorrow at 12 PM ET/4 PM UTC

Register here ➡ mailchi.mp/900ec8ab5530...
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Packaging Extensions
Join our monthly Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream on 18 September 2025 to learn about Packaging Extensions: different ways you can make them, explain why you'd want to make them, and give you a couple of existing extensions as examples you can reference a
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September 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For each Chocolatey product we have release notes covering features, improvements, bug fixes and any other changes made.

To find out what has changed in your favorite Chocolatey product, check them out on the left side navigation bar of our Docs site!

docs.chocolatey.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🎉 FOUR. BILLION. INSTALLS. 🎉

From 51 packages in 2011 to over 264,000 today, this growth is thanks to our amazing community of maintainers and moderators. 🙌

Dive into the full story + fun data in our latest blog: blog.chocolatey.org/2025/08/four...
Chocolatey Software Blog | Four Billion Installs?
This blog post is being published on 5h September 2025, however, the roll over to 4 billion downloads happened on the 27th August 2025, which is why the blog post uses that date.
blog.chocolatey.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Can you use Chocolatey packages in Intune?

Yes!

Join us as we go through the process of converting, pushing and using Chocolatey packages with Intune.

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Chocolatey CLI Intune Integration Overview
Join Stevie as he goes over the documentation and steps necessary to get started using the Intune Integration, introduced in Chocolatey Licensed Extension v3...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
⬆️ Ready to level up your Chocolatey skills?

Join our next Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream to learn how extensions can expand your packaging capabilities.
✔ Step-by-step tutorial plus examples
✔ Real-time Q&A with the Team

🗓️18 September 2025 at 12 PM ET/4 PM UTC
👉 Save your spot: bit.ly/4ni6uZd
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Packaging Extensions
Join our monthly Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream on 18 September 2025 to learn about Packaging Extensions: different ways you can make them, explain why you'd want to make them, and give you a couple of existing extensions as examples you can reference a
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September 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Did you know that Chocolatey Community assistance is available on our Discord server?

Connect with the Chocolatey Team and Community members, experts and seasoned pros and ask the questions you need answers to!

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September 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Did you know that Chocolatey Community assistance is available on our Discord server?

Connect with the Chocolatey Team and Community members, experts and seasoned pros and ask the questions you need answers to!

ch0.co/community
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🚀 New month, new edition of Unwrapping Chocolatey!

This September, we’re diving into package extensions: what they are, why you’d build them, and how to get started. Plus, we’ll share real examples you can reference.

📅 18 September 2025 at 12 PM ET/4 PM UTC
Don’t miss it: bit.ly/4ni6uZd
Unwrapping Chocolatey: Packaging Extensions
Join our monthly Unwrapping Chocolatey livestream on 18 September 2025 to learn about Packaging Extensions: different ways you can make them, explain why you'd want to make them, and give you a couple of existing extensions as examples you can reference a
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September 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Chocolatey
Four Billion Installs? blog.chocolatey.org/2025/08/four... via @chocolatey.org

Any guesses to the answers of the questions at the end of the blog post? :-)
Chocolatey Software Blog | Four Billion Installs?
blog.chocolatey.org
September 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We have just released v2.5.1 of the Chocolatey CLI!

Release notes can be found here:

docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/...
Chocolatey Software Docs | Release Notes
Release Notes for Chocolatey CLI
docs.chocolatey.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM