MiKTeX 25.12 unattended installation is not working

[Aayushaw]

First, I downloaded the MiKTeX Setup Utility from https://miktex.org/download.

I extracted the EXE installer and ran the following command: .\miktexsetup_standalone.exe --verbose --local-package-repository=C:\local\MiKTeX --package-set=basic download

This started creating a local repository, but the version downloaded was very old — MiKTeX 23.4.

PS C:\local> .\miktexsetup_standalone.exe --verbose --local-package-repository=C:\local\MiKTeX --package-set=basic download
this is MiKTeX Setup Service 5.5 (MiKTeX 23.4)
starting downloader...
starting download...
repository: https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/
download directory: C:\local\MiKTeX
visiting repository https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/...
repository type: remote package repository
loading package repository manifest...
downloading https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma...
0.40 MB, 11.69 Mbit/s
package repository digest: 983a5a2e6cd026b543d878a9c85ea925
going to download 215081032 bytes
downloading package database...
downloading https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb1-2.9.tar.lzma...
0.40 MB, 86.92 Mbit/s
downloading https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-zzdb3-2.9.tar.lzma...
1.90 MB, 116.19 Mbit/s
downloading https://mirror.clarkson.edu/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/miktex-lzma-bin-x64-2.9.tar.lzma (expecting 81619 bytes)...

After that, I installed the application using this command: .\miktexsetup_standalone.exe --quiet --local-package-repository="C:\local\MiKTeX" --package-set=basic install --shared=yes

Is there a way to download and silently install the latest MiKTeX 25.12 version instead of the old 23.4 build?