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WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

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Forks: 1.8k
Open beginner issues: 6
Indexed issues: 1.3k
Avg merge: 1d 11h
Merged PRs (30d): 15

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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1,264 open issues indexed

CONTRIBUTING.md: define testing requirements for contributions Open

Issue-Feature

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microsoft/winget-cli#6394 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Strengthen contributor guidance to support Help-Wanted contributions Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6393 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Group Policy + admin setting for environment variable expansion in CLI arguments Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6389 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Support for environment variable expansion in --location Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6388 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Allow replacing RelativeFilePath prefix for portable packages Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6382 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Update-WinGetPackage -Scope System fails with 0x80070652 (ERROR_INSTALL_ALREADY_RUNNING) despite no real install in progress Open

Issue-Bug Issue-Feedback

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6381 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Cannot install `x64` release on `arm64` whenever `--locale` is explicitly specified Open

Command-Show Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6377 · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Inform users about the default installation path for a specific package Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6376 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
Winget recognize the Legacy Python Manager as an outdated version of Python even though Python is up to date Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug Needs-Attention

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6372 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Add contstraints to simplify E2E tests Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6370 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Improve Pipeline Handling of Copying Test Results Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6368 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 15, 2026
WinGet upgrade fails with 0x80070005 / 0x80073CF6 due to broken ACL inheritance on HKCU\Software\Classes\ActivatableClasses\Package Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6367 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 15, 2026
Environment variables not resolved in path type settings Open

Command-Settings Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6360 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
DSC Export creates duplicate IDs Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-cli#6353 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Update log Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6343 · Opened Jul 2, 2026
0x8a150004 : Opening manifest failed Open

Command-Download Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6342 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2026
cpprestsdk is EOL Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6341 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Add PowerShell cmdlet documentation in Windows Dev Docs Open

Issue-Docs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6337 · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Failing to add WinGet Source in non-interactive session Open

Command-List Issue-Bug Needs-Attention

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6334 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Incorrect URL for Microsoft Store Terms of Transaction Open

Issue-Docs msstore

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6331 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Check for update on "first" command Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6330 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Heroic attempt to update WinGet Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6329 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
When the index is updated, WinGet should check for updates to itself and prompt. Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6328 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
WinGet shouldn't require an additional command to enable configuration Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6327 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Mojibake in the "WinHttpSendRequest: 12002" error message in the fr-FR locale. Open

Area-Localization Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6326 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
winget reports pinned packages during update, but pin list is empty. Open

Command-Pin Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6325 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Help should indicate --proxy/--no-proxy require ProxyCommandLineOptions, or --no-proxy should have a lower-friction escape path Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6320 · Opened Jun 23, 2026
Make "winget rm" able to uninstall any MS Store app by ID, even those not in the msstore repo source. Open

Issue-Feature msstore

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6306 · Opened Jun 20, 2026
Day 0 Update: Self-update on first command when client is outdated Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6298 · Opened Jun 18, 2026
winget install . unexpectedly installs an unrelated Microsoft Store app Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6297 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 18, 2026
Extend native DSC v3 resources in WinGet Client (PackageList, Pin, and installer type) Open

DSC-Resource Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6289 · Opened Jun 17, 2026
PowerShell Module Full Parity with WinGet CLI Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6288 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 17, 2026
winget-cli uses secondary installed os langauge for output Open

Area-Localization Area-Output Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6282 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Microsoft.DSC/Include fails in two ways: relative configurationFile resolves from DSC install dir, and valid included config fails with Object vs Array error Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6268 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2026
Allow users to add a GitHub repository URL as a native WinGet manifest source. Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6266 · 6 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jun 5, 2026
WinGet list / Get-WinGetPackage shows incorrect PackageIdentifier and version mapping for multiple installed .NET runtimes (8/9/10) Open

Area-Matching Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6264 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 4, 2026
Support for Parameters and Variables in WinGet Configuration Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6263 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2026
PUA: Encrypted file detections should not block legitimate packages Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6250 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 26, 2026
Find installed packages dependent on Package X Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6247 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 23, 2026
Manifest Validation error from Pipline not rasied with local CLI Open

Command-Validate Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6245 · Opened May 23, 2026
WinGet lost track of machine-scope portable package `Gyan.FFmpeg.Shared` Open

Command-List Command-Uninstall Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6238 · Opened May 20, 2026
Clarify manifest entries usage/purpose Open

Issue-Docs

Difficulty 3/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6221 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 12, 2026
System proxy support Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6219 · 2 comments · 56 reactions · Opened May 9, 2026
winget configure test crashes with 0x8a15c00f after all resources complete Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6217 · Opened May 8, 2026
Configure: Update cached modules when no version is pinned in v2 configuration Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6216 · Opened May 8, 2026
Portable uninstall removes symlinks belonging to a different package when binary names collide Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6215 · Opened May 7, 2026
if winget-cli is installed from unelevated terminal with scope currentuser, necessary license is not installed Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6212 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2026
Suggest WinGet upgrade when newer manifest schema versions are detected in community repository Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6209 · 2 comments · Opened May 4, 2026
Add wingver command with ASCII branding (similar to neofetch) Open

Area-Output Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6198 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 2, 2026
WinGet can report on PUA coming from the "winget" source Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#6189 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2026

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