Chocolatey GUI provides package metadata with v2 feed but not with v3 feed

[gep13]

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What You Are Seeing?

Chocolatey GUI provides Downloads, Total Downloads, and Last update metadata when drilling in to a package. The screenshot below is when the bob package is viewed with a v2 feed:

However, when changing to a v3 feed, the Downloads and Last update package metadata breaks. See below:

A customer ran across this using Sonatype Nexus, and I confirmed it using Inedo ProGet and Sonatype Nexus.

I'm including two Fiddler sessions on this issue, one named Fiddlerv2 and one named Fiddlerv3, to see the differences between the different calls.

Fiddlerv2.saz

Fiddlerv3.saz

What is Expected?

This package metadata should be present no matter what type of feed is used, but if only one can be defined, it needs to be v3 as v2 is deprecated.

How Did You Get This To Happen?

1. Choose (or create) a package for testing and push it to a private source.
2. Set the Chocolatey source to use a v2 feed.
3. Open Chocolatey GUI and double-click the chosen package to get a baseline for the package metadata.
4. Download the package several times to see the numbers climb when using the v2 source.
5. Change the source to a v3 source (and disable the Chocolatey feature usePackageRepositoryOptimizations if you have not already done so).
6. Open Chocolatey GUI and double-click the chosen package to verify the package metadata is now broken.
7. You can use Fiddler to see the differences in the traffic if desired.

System Details

• Operating System: Windows Server 2025
• Windows PowerShell version: 5.1
• Chocolatey CLI Version: 2.4.3
• Chocolatey Licensed Extension version: 6.3.1
• Chocolatey License type: BusinessTrial
• Terminal/Emulator: Windows PowerShell

Installed Packages

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Output Log

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Additional Context

• ZenDesk Ticket
• Original GitLab Issue

[gep13]

If you look at the response from the V2 feed, you can see the following:

Which inlcudes information about Download Counts, and last updated. However, from the V3 feed, you will see the following:

Where that information is not included.

This is one of those situtations where we are reliant on the information coming back from the server, and it simply isn't there.

My suggestion for this issue would be to determine the default value for each property, and only show it, if it is something other than the default value.

[gep13]

Additionally, to complete this issue, we would need some additional docs, either in Chocolatey GUI, or as an FAQ somewhere, to explain why items are shown sometimes, but not the others.

[gsal]

We have an in-house hosted instance of artifactory and I can use it just fine from the command line....I can add it as a source, I can push packages, I can install.

Then, I learned about chocolateygui; I installed it and it works as expected, except , it does not know how to talk to our in-house instance of artifactory.....maybe something about V2 vs V3 ?

When I add the source and the URL is something like ...api/nuget/<myrepo>, I get the "No matching packages" message.

When I add the source and the URL includes V3, ...api/nuget/v3/<myrepo>, the failure is more catastrophic, with the program actually terminating: