Significate changes (PR #43708 & #45390, damon-atkins) have been made to the pkg execution module. Users should test this release against their existing package sls definition files.
-``pkg.list_available`` no longer defaults to refreshing the winrepo meta database.
-``pkg.install`` without a ``version`` parameter no longer upgrades software if the software is already installed. Use ``pkg.install version=latest`` or in a state use ``pkg.latest`` to get the old behavior.
-``pkg.list_pkgs`` now returns multiple versions if software installed more than once.
-``pkg.list_pkgs`` now returns 'Not Found' when the version is not found instead of '(value not set)' which matches the contents of the sls definitions.
-``pkg.remove()`` will wait upto 3 seconds (normally about a second) to detect changes in the registry after removing software, improving reporting of version changes.
-``pkg.remove()`` can remove ``latest`` software, if ``latest`` is defined in sls definition.
- Documentation was update for the execution module to match the style in new versions, some corrections as well.
- All install/remove commands are prefix with cmd.exe shell and cmdmod is called with a command line string instead of a list. Some sls files in saltstack/salt-winrepo-ng expected the commands to be prefixed with cmd.exe (i.e. the use of ``&``).
- Some execution module functions results, now behavour more like their Unix/Linux versions.
Execution module cmdmod
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Windows cmdmod forcing cmd to be a list (issue #43522) resolved by "cmdmod: Don't list-ify string commands on Windows" PR #43807. Linux/Unix OS command & arguments requires a list. Windows was being treated the same. Windows requires commands & arguments to be a string, which this PR fixes.
