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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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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

Portable Install uses `void` return methods frequently Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5215 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 17, 2025
Better differentiation between errors and warnings Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5208 · Opened Feb 15, 2025
Winget confuses vim.vim and vim.vim.nightly Open

Area-External Area-Matching Blocking-Issue Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5196 · 15 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Feb 11, 2025
Unexpected package installed Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5185 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2025
both choco install or choco reinstall winget fail under win11 24H2 - ERROR: The type initializer for '<Module>' threw an exception. Open

Area-External Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5181 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 4, 2025
Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winger maintainers + This file does not have an app associated with it Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5177 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2025
Garbled characters when installing an EXE Open

Area-Output Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5175 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 2, 2025
winget upgrade does not list some applications but list does Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5165 · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Improved architecture handling for Microsoft.Rest type source(s) Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5145 · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Add `.targets` and/or `readme.txt` to NuGet packages Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/winget-cli#5143 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2025
[Feat]: Support for setting download links for different regions in manifests Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5138 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2025
--uninstall-previous doesn't seem to be working Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5136 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 14, 2025
WinGet Progress Bar on PowerShell Module Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5130 · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 13, 2025
Additional details should be contained when using a pipeline with commands like Update-WinGetPackage Open

PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5129 · Opened Jan 12, 2025
LAV Filters 0 0.79.2-20 is detected as updatable to 0.79.2 Open

Issue-Docs

microsoft/winget-cli#5124 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 10, 2025
'winget upgrade --all' hangs Open

Command-Upgrade Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5119 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 8, 2025
WinGet Database getting corrupted on multi-user systems when using GSudo-like elevation methods Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5109 · 4 comments · 27 reactions · Opened Jan 5, 2025
unpredictable package locale Open

Area-Localization Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5107 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 5, 2025
Add a "Newly Added Packages" Feature to "winget source update" for Better Discoverability Open

Command-Source Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5106 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2025
PortableCommandAlias fails when ArchiveBinariesDependOnPath Open

Issue-Bug Portable

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5105 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 2, 2025
"winget add -a x64 --scope machine BbtN.FFmpeg.GPL" works; "winget rm --id BtbN.FFmpeg.GPL" says "No installed package found matching input criteria." Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5102 · 16 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 1, 2025
Installed Package shows with 2 different ID's Open

Command-List Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5097 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 24, 2024
Add support to pass multiple package ID's to all WinGet PowerShell cmdlets Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5094 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2024
Update Docs for WinGet GPO Open

Issue-Docs

microsoft/winget-cli#5090 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 19, 2024
WinGet supports installing PowerShell modules as a portable application Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5087 · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2024
WinGet supports .jar as a portable application Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5086 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2024
WinGet supports .cmd as a portable application Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5085 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2024
WinGet supports .bat as a portable application Open

Issue-Feature

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microsoft/winget-cli#5084 · 1 comment · 8 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2024
Support other portable application formats Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5083 · 2 comments · 29 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2024
`Microsoft.WinGet.DSC/WinGetPackage`: The type initializer for '<Module>' threw an exception. Open

Command-Configure DSC-Resource Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5069 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 15, 2024
WinGet Configuration clarifications regarding WinGet Settings Open

Issue-Docs

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5064 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 13, 2024
Microsoft.WinGet.Client release notes Open

Issue-Docs PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5058 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Full upgrade run december 2024, v1.10.40-preview Open

Issue-Feedback

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5056 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 11, 2024
DSC Feature Flags / Optional Units Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5049 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2024
Feature Request: Enable Command Chaining for "winget show" and "winget install" Open

Issue-Docs

microsoft/winget-cli#5046 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 7, 2024
Add support for WinGet Export and WinGet Import in PowerShell module. Open

Issue-Feature PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5041 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Add WinGet Import & WinGet Export to COM APIs Open

Area-COM-API Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5040 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 5, 2024
Support ISO InstallerType Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5039 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 5, 2024
WinGet download doesn't work through a proxy Open

Command-Download Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5030 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2024
`winget configure` should update configuration modules Open

Command-Configure Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5029 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Option to install both 32 and 64 bit versions of a Software Open

Area-Architecture Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5025 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2024
Rest API endpoint is not found. Possibly related to removal of Paint 3D from MS Store Open

Issue-Bug msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5024 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 1, 2024
`--log` Command Does Not Save Logs Open

Issue-Docs

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5019 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 29, 2024
Adding a vcpkg for API Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#5017 · Opened Nov 27, 2024
Improve documentation for building WinGet Configuration Files Open

Command-Configure Issue-Docs

microsoft/winget-cli#5007 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 25, 2024
Add commandline parameter to set temp directory Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-cli#4989 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 19, 2024
Cannot install MSIX packages with WinGet on Windows Sandbox (Exit code: 0x80070002) Open

Command-Install Issue-Bug Windows-Sandbox

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

microsoft/winget-cli#4982 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Repair-WingetPackageManager -force does not force repair Open

Issue-Bug PowerShell

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

microsoft/winget-cli#4981 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Doesn't list the package despite the package existing Open

Area-External Issue-Bug msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#4978 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Winget download does not work on OS packages that do support winget install Open

Area-External Command-Download msstore

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

microsoft/winget-cli#4976 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 15, 2024

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