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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

Inaccurate default for 'useLatest' in DSC v3 schema Open

DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5833 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Expose DSC resource schema in the COM API Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5829 · Opened Oct 24, 2025
No installed package found when attempting to update or remove Open

Command-Uninstall Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5828 · Opened Oct 24, 2025
.NET Projections for InProc NuGet Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5821 · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Packages with similar name are mixed up ( Adobe Acrobat Reader vs Adobe Acrobat) Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-cli#5820 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Add xbox store as source Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5818 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 17, 2025
Move "schema header validation" as warning only Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5816 · 7 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2025
`winget export` not writing file if path contains emoji Open

Command-Export Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5813 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 16, 2025
Interactive dependency update Open

Command-Upgrade Dependencies Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5809 · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Build Pipeline occasionally errors on component governance with ENOSPC Open

Area-Build Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5808 · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Emit _name for WinGet DSC Resource export Open

DSC-Resource Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5806 · Opened Oct 14, 2025
`winget upgrade oh-my-posh --version 27.1.2` installs a second copy of the app instead of upgrading it Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5800 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2025
Manage source order for results in "search" Open

Command-Search Issue-Feature

microsoft/winget-cli#5799 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Specify Multiple Sources Open

Command-Search Issue-Feature

microsoft/winget-cli#5798 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Increase the number of allowed tags from 16 to many more in Manifest 1.12 Open

Issue-Feature

microsoft/winget-cli#5783 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 9, 2025
Expose "export --all" via the COM API Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5778 · Opened Oct 7, 2025
"C:\Windows\Temp\winget\defaultstate " prend l'espace disponible sur la machine Open

Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-cli#5776 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 7, 2025
Repair-WinGetPackageManager failed Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5772 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Exclude software with paid upgrades from winget upgrade --all Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5769 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 4, 2025
[New Feature]: Migrate to SHA3-256 Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5771 · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 4, 2025
I can't update the Microsoft.WindowsWDK.10.0.26100 package via winget upgrade Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug Needs-Repro

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5762 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Add Configure Support to PowerShell client. Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5758 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Feature: Enhance winget upgrade --all output to show Installed Path and Before/After Version/Build Details Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5754 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 28, 2025
Winget `list --upgrade-available --include-pinned` should show the pinned clearly Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5753 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2025
Winget Needs Full Enterprise Support—SYSTEM Context, Intune Integration, and Machine-Wide Deployment Open

Issue-Feature Possible-Duplicate

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5752 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Configure export should mark packages needing elevation appropriately Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5748 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Configuration COM API always provides an input to dsc, even when none is specified Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5746 · Opened Sep 25, 2025
Winget.exe access denied & HRESULT: 0x80073CF0, Package could not be opened Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5743 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2025
Can't install Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.8 (x64) when Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.8 (x86) is installed Open

Area-Architecture Command-Install Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5731 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 19, 2025
Can't uninstall package when both x86 and x64 versions are installed Open

Area-Architecture Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5729 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Enable user operations when group policy blocks winget Open

Issue-Bug Needs-Attention

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5728 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2025
Winget changes Scooter Software's Beyond Compare from English to French on update Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5718 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2025
WinGet should skip dependencies on upgrade if they were skipped on install Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5717 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Option to change the spinner animation Open

Area-User-Interface Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5716 · Opened Sep 11, 2025
Updating Adobe Acrobat - Potential STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION ? Open

Area-External Command-Install Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5710 · Opened Sep 8, 2025
Support wildcard in `-Version` for `Repair-WinGetPackageManager Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5704 · Opened Aug 29, 2025
DSC v3 Schema doesn't find the default WinGet configuration modules folder Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5700 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2025
--module-path does not work with DSC Schema V3 Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5699 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2025
DSC Schema V3 is extremely slow when referring to V2 resources Open

Area-Performance Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5697 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2025
`winget configure` accepts a directory Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5696 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2025
SfsClient do not handle Kerberos Authentication for proxy Open

Command-Download Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5684 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Unable to update or uninstall a renamed package Open

Command-Uninstall Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5683 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2025
yt-dlp.ffmpeg not create link Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5682 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2025
winget-upgrade: The following prompt is inappropriate when all packages on a device are already up-to-date. Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5681 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2025
Failing to update Microsoft.VCRedist.2013 (x86 and x64) Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug Needs-Attention

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5679 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Path environment variable modification does not actually modify PATH. Open

Area-Path Command-Install Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 46/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5678 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 21, 2025
winget configure export generates invalid resource names Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5675 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2025
winget configure export .winget generated file points to unreachable schema Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5674 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2025
Improve error message when portable is already installed (latest version) Open

Command-Install Issue-Feature Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5673 · Opened Aug 18, 2025
`winget update -r` installed a software update that wasn't in the header Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5671 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2025

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