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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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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

DSCv3 user settings file enhancements Open

Issue-Feature

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microsoft/winget-cli#5425 · Opened May 2, 2025
Use human-readable error codes when reporting out an error Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5419 · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Wrong scope detected for Gluon.SceneBuilder Open

Area-External Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5414 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2025
Unable to upgrade an installed package Open

Issue-Bug Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5401 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2025
Non-interactive winget download does not work - Error: 0x80070520 : A specified logon session does not exist. Open

Command-Download Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5398 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Apr 21, 2025
I am facing a bizarre issue with the build. Two copies of the repo, each at commit 6096b5e, one builds and the other fails. Open

Area-Build Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5394 · 14 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2025
Feature Request: Add option to filter winget upgrade for major version updates only Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5391 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2025
winget source fails to update when invoking via a secondary administrator account Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5385 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2025
Can you make the error messages better? Open

Area-Output Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5384 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 12, 2025
Can't install/download last version of Company Portal (9WZDNCRFJ3PZ) Open

Command-Download Issue-Bug msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5377 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 11, 2025
winget configure command fails from admin powershell with "unrecognized command". Retry works. Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5376 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
`securityContext: elevated` does not have an effect with the PowerShell module Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5369 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Error with winget update - Failed in attempting to update the source: winget Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5366 · 25 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Numerous Issues with WinGet Open

Issue-Bug

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microsoft/winget-cli#5362 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2025
path is not properly set on scope machine on fresh windows install Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5361 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 8, 2025
Output a tip if resource requires elevation but doesn't specify `securityContext` Open

Area-Output Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5358 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Configuration notes Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5357 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Add an exclude explicit targeting flag for the winget upgrade command Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5353 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 4, 2025
ArchiSteamFarm upgrade removes config file Open

Command-Upgrade Portable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5351 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Group Policy to specify sequencing for multiple sources Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5347 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Add settings for source sequencing Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5346 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Deduplicating results from multiple sources Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5345 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2025
winget install julia -s msstore wants to install other software Open

Area-External Area-Matching Issue-Bug msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5344 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 1, 2025
Running dsc3 throws sequence contains no elements Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5342 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 1, 2025
WingetUtil ValidateManifest function support for manifests serialized as json Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5336 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 28, 2025
WinGet download hash mismatch cache issue Open

Command-Download Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5334 · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Add support for Windows patches and drivers Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5332 · 6 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Mar 28, 2025
Winget downloading stops for no reason. Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5322 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Uninstall of portable application hangs while using 8-10% CPU Open

Command-Uninstall Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5321 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2025
Upgrade flags --all and --unninstall-previous naively includes own running shell Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5316 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2025
Visual Studio workloads do not work on ARM64 Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5314 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2025
COM DownloadPackagesAsync Cache Issue Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5303 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Add `info` as alias for `show` Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5300 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2025
[OPTIMIZATION] Use %LocalAppData% instead of hardcoded paths Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5298 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 13, 2025
`winget install` errors with `The package is pinned and cannot be upgraded` Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5297 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 13, 2025
FEATURE: Please only show the winget version as the version Open

Area-External Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5292 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2025
Winget.exe reparse links in %appdatalocal%\Microsoft\WindowsApps point to inconsistent and incorrect targets Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5291 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2025
[SOLVED]Version 1.10.340 is broken Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5286 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2025
Old Winget Version Files Exist Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5277 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2025
update should provide a numeric list and ask which package via it, possibly including ranges ( 1-3,4,6,9-10 ) Open

Area-User-Interface Command-Upgrade Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5268 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 3, 2025
Winget upgrade doesn't recognize preview versions Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5267 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 2, 2025
WinGet configure command on WS 2025 - System.Runtime load error Open

Command-Configure Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5260 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 28, 2025
`winget list` and `upgrade` do not match installed packages to available packages in configured sources Open

Area-REST Command-List Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5249 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2025
WinGet upgrade breaks when additional installer type in new manifest Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5247 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2025
winget pin is ignored and package is upgraded anyway Open

Command-Pin Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5244 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2025
More granular control for winget import Open

Command-Import Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5238 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 22, 2025
0x80072ee7 0x80072efd Open

Issue-Bug

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microsoft/winget-cli#5232 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2025
Winget error 0x80070490 Open

Issue-Bug

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microsoft/winget-cli#5229 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 20, 2025
Separate Install and Upgrade Workflows Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5224 · Opened Feb 19, 2025
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command: 0x80072f8f : unknown error Open

Issue-Bug msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5218 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2025

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