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