In an attempt to be as efficient as possible, Chocolatey GUI caches the information about which of the installed packages are currently outdated. Instead of running the choco outdated command every time that information is requested, the information is instead fetched from the local cache. The length of time that the outdated packages information is kept can be controlled via this configuration parameter. The default is 60 minutes, which can be increased as required.

NOTE

Any time a package operation is completed, i.e. install/uninstall/upgrade, the outdated package information cache will be invalidated.

Resources

Below is a short video which shows this configuration setting in action:

Example

To set this configuration parameter, for the currently logged in user, you can run the following:

chocolateyguicli config set --name="'OutdatedPackagesCacheDurationInMinutes'" --value="'120'"

Or to set it globally at the machine level, run the following:

chocolateyguicli config set --name="'OutdatedPackagesCacheDurationInMinutes'" --value="'120'" --global

Default Value

The default value for this configuration is 60 minutes.

Availability

The ability to control this setting from the Chocolatey GUI Settings screen has existed since Chocolatey GUI v0.17.0.

The ability to control this feature from the command line using chocolateyguicli has existed since Chocolatey GUI v0.17.0.