Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator v0.3.0 Preview

We're excited to announce that we've added several new features to the tool. Some of the most notable ones include creating new manifests and updating existing manifests with multiple installer urls as well as prompting for optional defaultLocale fields when creating a new manifest.

Regarding usage with multiple installer urls, we have noticed that some installer manifests specify an architecture that is different from what is detected in the installer binary. To handle these discrepancies, we have implemented architecture detection based on regex string matching from the installer url.

We've had a lot of great feedback and feature suggestions from the community, special thanks to @OfficialEsco, @tiziodcaio, @apetresc, @chausner for giving feedback/suggestions and helping us make the tool better!

Features:

• 180725d Add settings configuration for specifying winget-pkgs repo owner/name (#112)
• 636b37e Add Installer Url Matching for Update Command and Improve Error Messages (#108)
• f7b91a7 Add prompts for optional string fields (#106)
• 457094c Adding support for multiple URLs in new and update command (#102)
• cd54329 Add Telemetry Opt-Out and Settings Command (#94)

Bugs:

• 8cfa45c Handle bad credential exception and block update submissions with no changes (#100)
• 0b90d07 Handle redirect urls and unbounded positional arguments (#104)

Noteworthy changes

• ec1258a Update docs with multiple url usage (#109)
• e17fba2 Removing BOM prefix from manifest content (#91)
• 918c759 Fixing OWC submission syntax in release pipeline and documentation (#88)
• 9a663ed Display installers with mismatched detected arch for successful updates (#114)
• f262066 Rename WindowsPackageManagerRepository setting and Add Documentation (#113)

Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator v0.2.0 Preview

We've added a few features and fixed some bugs, many submitted by the community. In addition, we had some PRs submitted by community members, thanks @timsneath, @jedieaston, and @JanDeDobbeleer!

Features:

• #30 Modifies Update command to be case-insensitive when searching for PackageIdentifier
• #79 Added standalone wingetcreate-self-contained.exe
• #67 Modified Update command to update ProductCode for MSIs
• #54 Add duplicate id check for existing package identifiers
• #63 Adding schema link headers to serialized manifests
• #7 Removed initial token requirement for Update command when not submitting to GitHub

Bugs:

• #73 Fixed burn/wix installerType parsing
• #58 Fixed "Unhandled exception. System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format." issue
• #59 Removed redundant internetClient capability
• #56 Fixed where different downloads with same filename would collide and cause installer hash mismatch

Noteworthy changes

• 83ab6e3 Adding a self-contained standalone exe to our release for users without .NET installed (#79)
• 6295f53 Adding parsing logic for Burn installerType (#73)
• 4e44a92 Modifying Update command to update ProductCode for MSIs (#67)
• 8e6ec72 Add duplicate id check for existing package identifiers (#54)
• a5a01e5 Adding schema link headers to serialized manifests (#63)
• 471e25e Modifying logging to only call string.Format if there are format arguments (#58)
• 1b79d39 Removing redundant internetClient capability (#59)
• f86c71a Clean up temp files from installer download (#56)
• 6b69c51 Remove token requirement for update command (#7)

This list of changes was auto generated.

Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator v0.1.0.1 Preview

This is the initial preview release of the Windows Package Manager Manifest Creator. This tool designed to simplify the process for creating a valid manifest for the Windows Package Manager and it aids in the submission to the GitHub repository. It was designed both for human interaction and CI/CD scenarios. To get usage instructions, execute wingetcreate --help.

After it is installed, developers can run wingetcreate via the Windows Terminal, PowerShell, or the Command Prompt.

Features

wingetcreate exposes the following commands and options for the preview.

  new       Launches a series of questions to help generate a new manifest
  update    Updates fields of an existing manifest
  submit    Submits a valid manifest directly to the Windows Package Manager repo
  token     Modifies the GitHub auth token cache* --help Provides command line help

For complete documentation, check https://github.com/microsoft/winget-create