Windows Package Manager 1.7.3481-preview

This is the seventh development build after the Windows Package Manager 1.6 build for Windows 10 (1809+) and Windows 11. This build will be released to Windows Insider Dev builds and Windows Package Manager Insiders.

Experimental features are enabled in this release. Winget also supports initiating a reboot if a package requires one to complete an install. Winget resume is a new feature that will support resuming an installation when coming back from a reboot. Run winget features to see which experimental features are enabled or disabled. Add the following to your settings (winget settings) file to enable the experimental features.

    "experimentalFeatures": {
	  "directMSI": true,
          "windowsFeature": true,
          "resume": true,
          "configuration03": true,
          "reboot": true,
    },

Windows Package Manager also includes Winget configuration, which automatically handles the setup and configuration requirements for an ideal development environment on your Windows machine. WinGet configuration file helps with installing and managing software packages, applications, programming languages, frameworks, tools, or settings necessary for a project.

Check out our session at Microsoft Build to learn how to get your machine to a ready-to-code state.

A prerelease version of the Microsoft.WinGet.Client PowerShell module has been published to the PowerShell Gallery. To install the latest version of the PowerShell module, run the following command in PowerShell 7+.

Install-Module -Name Microsoft.WinGet.Client

The PowerShell module requires App Installer (winget) to be installed. The Repair-WinGetPackageManager cmdlet (work in progress) is designed to install or repair App Installer.

What's Changed

• Configuration schema property descriptions added by @alexravenna in #3499
• The initial yaml schema manifest for version 1.7.0 by @Madhusudhan-MSFT in #3876
• Move to latest cppwinrt package across all projects by @JohnMcPMS in #3868
• Add suggested dictionaries for spellchecking and remove unneeded words by @florelis in #3885
• Remove unneeded words from spellchecking by @florelis in #3890
• Update docs for winget commands by @KK-Designs in #3909
• Ignore deprecation warning by @JohnMcPMS in #3905
• Fix pipeline build error by @florelis in #3937
• Add support for double-clicking on .wingetdev files for applying configuration by @florelis in #3860
• Add a script to bootstrap running Pester tests by @JohnMcPMS in #3899
• Add WingetDSC E2E tests by @ryfu-msft in #3939
• Improve repair by @msftrubengu in #3886
• Enable cmdlets for Windows PowerShell by @msftrubengu in #3951
• Register restart for resume by @ryfu-msft in #3858
• Allow user settings to control logging channels by @JohnMcPMS in #3955
• Add package id, name, and source to install/update/uninstall result for PowerShell cmdlet by @ryfu-msft in #3954
• Update Store Certs by @yao-msft in #3968
• Introduce strong and weak comparisons between installers by @JohnMcPMS in #3956
• Include framework packages during installed packages enumeration by @yao-msft in #3975

New Contributors

• @alexravenna made their first contribution in #3499

Full Changelog: v1.7.3172-preview...v1.7.3481-preview