Resilience and UX Fixes - August 19, 2026

Added

• Package icons in every list, taken from the package's manifest or its homepage
• Clean Index action, discarding the cached index and icons so both rebuild

Fixed

• A package that winget still reports as installed right after its uninstaller claimed success (slow uninstallers) no longer lingers in lists for the whole cache window — the next view opening re-checks it
• Package data queries that fail transiently are retried once before reporting an error
• Upgrade All discloses when its pre-run refresh changed the number of updates compared to the list you launched it from
• The "winget not found" error now distinguishes a missing installation from the known Raycast worker-environment issue, with the fitting remedy for each
• Long installs (e.g. Visual Studio) are no longer stopped after 5 minutes of installer silence — the progress toast reports the silence instead, and cancelling stays available
• The detail pane no longer briefly shows the previous package's details when moving between rows
• The primary Upgrade action shows ↵ in the action panel instead of ⌘U

Changed

• Upgrade All no longer retries an update whose exact offered version already failed for a reason tied to the installer (broken vendor packaging, technology mismatch, installer crash): the skip is disclosed, the row shows a dimmed update arrow, a manual Upgrade always retries, and the version is retried automatically once winget offers a different one. Failures caused by the environment (app in use, busy installer, no network, disk full, cancelled prompts) are never skipped
• Install Version… gained a detail pane showing each version's own manifest (release date, publisher, license)
• The version shown for same-named packages moved from beside the name to the right edge of the row, so long names no longer truncate against it

Stale Data Fixes - July 27, 2026

Fixed

• Upgrade All refreshes stale package data before upgrading
• Uninstalling a package that is no longer installed corrects the list instead of failing
• A failed data refresh no longer shows an empty package list; the error toast offers Retry

Locale and Upgrade Fixes - July 17, 2026

Fixed

• Installed and upgradable lists no longer come up empty on non-English Windows: table parsing is structural instead of language-based, and package details parse on all of winget's shipped display languages
• Updates winget lists but cannot actually apply ("no applicable upgrade", or an installer whose reported version winget cannot match) are hidden from upgradable views until winget offers a different version
• Operations that fail because they need administrator rights are retried with winget relaunched elevated, so the UAC prompt is the only confirmation (works during Upgrade All too)
• Installer failures with a documented Windows Installer exit code show its meaning instead of the bare number, an upgrade blocked by another running installation is retried once, and a silent installer aborted because the app is open reports "App in use, close it first"
• Operations no longer fail when the Upgrade All Packages command is disabled (#29525): they run inside the view that started them instead — the in-flight package finishes even if the view closes, at the cost of live progress toasts

Ground-Up Rewrite - July 14, 2026

A full architectural rewrite of the internals, with the command set expanded from three to six: Show Upgradable and Upgrade All Packages split out from the old Upgrade command, and Export and Import are new.

Added

• Show Upgradable, Upgrade All Packages, Export, and Import commands (Export/Import expose winget's manifest options)
• Ranked local search over a cached package catalog, with an Index Refresh Interval preference
• Install Version… (auto-pins the chosen version), Download Installer, Repair, and Pin/Unpin actions
• Uninstall All on Show Installed (excludes Raycast and App Installer)
• Long operations (install/upgrade/uninstall/repair/download/import) run detached: starting one returns you to root with a live progress toast that survives closing the window, and notifies on completion either way
• A global operation lock so only one winget operation runs at a time; an in-progress operation can be cancelled, and a crashed one is recovered and reported as interrupted
• Confirmation prompts for destructive actions (Uninstall, Uninstall All, Upgrade All, Cancel)
• Release Date in the detail pane; detail prefetch around the selection
• Test suite covering the concurrency protocol and winget-output parsing against captured fixtures

Changed

• Install/upgrade outcomes (including no-ops and bulk summaries) are determined from winget's exit codes and its documented return-code table rather than matching English output text, so results no longer depend on the system language
• Bulk upgrades report upgraded / skipped / failed separately and name the failed packages; upgrades winget immediately re-offers (installer reports an unmatchable version) are called out
• Cold start is staged: installed and upgradable data load first and those views become usable immediately, while the full catalog (which powers Search) builds in the background
• Installed and upgradable data refresh on open when stale and after every operation
• Empty states explain themselves, including why Microsoft Store apps don't appear in Search

Fixed

• Show Upgradable now includes packages winget lists in its separate "require explicit targeting" table, which the previous version omitted
• Package names winget truncates (…) or renders in double-width (CJK) scripts are parsed correctly instead of being misaligned or dropped; truncated names are repaired from the catalog

Simplify Package Actions - June 10, 2026

• Remove the View Details action from package action panels
• Make Install Package and Update Package the primary actions in search and upgrade lists

Fix localized upgrade parsing - April 23, 2026

• Fix winget table parsing on localized outputs by mapping table columns by position

Reliability & Details Improvements - April 21, 2026

• Improve install and upgrade reliability by respecting winget exit codes (no false success toasts)
• Show clear feedback for no-op installs (already installed / no newer version available)
• Align Installed Packages “Upgrades Available” with the Upgrade Packages view
• Add preference to hide packages without a known source in Installed Packages
• Improve package details: show source tags, hide Unknown version, and render license URLs as links
• Provide a friendly details view for unmanaged packages (no winget metadata available)
• Standardize action shortcuts and fix duplicate key warnings in lists

Initial Release - April 12, 2026

• Search packages in the winget repository and install them
• List all installed packages with upgrade and uninstall actions
• View and upgrade outdated packages individually or all at once
• Optimistic removal from list immediately after uninstall
• Run install and upgrade actions in the background with HUD notifications
• Automatic list refresh with feedback after install, uninstall, and upgrade
• Manual refresh action with ⌘ R shortcut on all views
• Detailed package view with publisher, homepage, license, tags, and installer type
• Copy package ID and command shortcuts to clipboard
• Configurable winget executable path preference
• Graceful error messages when winget executable is not found