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The Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator command-line tool (aka wingetcreate)

Stars: 651
Forks: 114
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 104
Avg merge: 7h 52m
Merged PRs (30d): 3

Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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104 open issues indexed

Suggest widely used translations for `Proprietary` Open

Issue-Feature Needs-Triage

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microsoft/winget-create#701 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Link PR to issue with an option Open

Issue-Feature Needs-Triage

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

microsoft/winget-create#700 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Crash in small terminal window Open

Issue-Bug Needs-Triage

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

microsoft/winget-create#697 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Update to .NET 10 Open

Issue-Feature Needs-Triage

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

microsoft/winget-create#696 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Multiline `ReleaseNotes` Open

Issue-Feature Needs-Triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

microsoft/winget-create#680 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Auto-fill `ReleaseNotes` from GitHub Open

Issue-Feature Needs-Triage

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

microsoft/winget-create#679 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Expose GitHub App authentication for CI/CD publishers Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#677 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 6, 2026
Auto-detect PackageDependencies from installer PE import table Open

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microsoft/winget-create#676 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Automation targeted improvements Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#668 · Opened May 19, 2026
Zip files with same Relative File Path but different Aliases are combined across Installers Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#660 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Ability to change Package Identifier easily Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#658 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Support multiple manifest roots in all scenarios Open

Issue-Feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/winget-create#647 · Opened Jan 27, 2026
wingetcreate reports new error I never got before about "Multiple matches found for Neutral Msix installer detected" Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

microsoft/winget-create#643 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 9, 2026
Winget.exe can download, wingetcreate.exe cannot Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#642 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Show which .exes in multi-.exe portable ZIPs that "Failed to parse the package from (…)" errors are about. Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#640 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 31, 2025
Generate manifests for fonts Open

Issue-Feature

microsoft/winget-create#639 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 22, 2025
Wingetcreate update a manifest file Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#638 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2025
Notify winget-pkgs in PR that PR was generated by wingetcreate Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#636 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2025
cannot find https://github.com/microsoft/XmlNotepad/releases/download/2.9.0.17/XmlNotepadPackage_2.9.0.17_AnyCPU.msixbundle Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#635 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2025
"wingetcreate new" with private bits Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#633 · Opened Nov 5, 2025
Add --upgrade-behavior parameter to update command Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#632 · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Don't show first time telemetry notice in `wingetcreate show` command Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#630 · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Skip headings in `wingetcreate show` command Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#629 · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Unhandled exception. Octokit.ForbiddenException: Resource protected by organization SAML enforcement. You must grant your OAuth token access to this organization. Open

Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/winget-create#628 · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Download manifests from a PR for editing and testing locally Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#626 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 25, 2025
Add support for Advanced Installer Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#622 · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Detect self extracting installers Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#610 · Opened Jul 8, 2025
update winget-create and remove dependencies on outdated libraries Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#601 · 5 comments · Opened May 23, 2025
PackageIdentifier - Input does not match the valid format for this field Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#600 · 2 comments · Opened May 20, 2025
Support fine-grained tokens Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#595 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2025
wingetcreate new asks for same info twice. PackageIdentifier, Publisher and PackageName Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#589 · Opened Mar 13, 2025
Have to press enter twice for installerURL Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#588 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 13, 2025
GnuWin32.Wget Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#587 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2025
Unnecessary DisplayVersion added Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#582 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 24, 2025
Failed to parse the package: CudaText 1.220.0.4 and Urls with ?viasf=1 Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#578 · Opened Jan 7, 2025
update/new does not work when additional architecture are added for a package Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#570 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2024
Custom PR body on submit command Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#569 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 16, 2024
The number of new installer packages must match the number of existing installer packages Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#559 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2024
Locale overrides for --release-notes-url flag Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#556 · Opened Sep 19, 2024
add option to add extra comments to the pull request description for `update` command Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#531 · Opened May 17, 2024
Cannot update if name of EXE file has changed inside ZIP Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#530 · 1 comment · Opened May 7, 2024
Support object input for overrides Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#521 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 10, 2024
Add support for removing manifests Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#517 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 20, 2024
Support .tar.gz archives Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#509 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 14, 2024
`wingetcreate update` / `wingetcreate update -i` Installer version problem Open

Issue-Bug

microsoft/winget-create#503 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 9, 2024
`wingetcreate update` based on GitHub release Open

Issue-Feature

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

microsoft/winget-create#497 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 28, 2023
"ERROR: Path does not exist" when using trailing \ on manifest path (submit) Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#492 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2023
It totally crashes when I run wingetcreate which module not found on Windows 11 23H2 Release Preview. Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#487 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 27, 2023
There is an issue about specific package which wingetcreate unable to parse the installer Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#482 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 25, 2023
Zip archive fails to parse on portable package update Open

Issue-Bug

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

microsoft/winget-create#479 · 9 comments · Opened Nov 20, 2023

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