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The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

35 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 1 story, 34 comments · first 2020-05-19 · latest 2026-04-10

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  1. …documentation. All updates are manual, and are done via pull requests. Check everything in-queue: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pulls Existing versions don't tend to have their metadata updated (I'm not sure winget would accept…
    comment by kyrra · 2026-04-10 · in CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
  2. …but it at least does a signature check. The config for the latest installer is listed here: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes... which you can install with: winget install --exact --id CPUID.CPU-Z (there is a…
    comment by kyrra · 2026-04-10 · in CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
  3. …to install software with winget. Are the versions there also compromised? v1.63 updated 6 days ago https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... via https://winstall.app/apps/CPUID.HWMonitor v2.19 updated 15 days ago…
    comment by cachius · 2026-04-10 · in CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised
  4. …updates since v1.4.2 in September 2025. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/13025 https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/345601 tl;dr: ESET Antivirus flags RustDesk as a "Potentially Unsafe Application" because it is a…
    comment by wolrah · 2026-04-08 · in Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers
  5. …for Properties/Tags/xattr/ADS/XMP) e: also available in WinGet as `voidtools.Everything.Alpha` https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by Lammy · 2026-02-08 · in Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
  6. If you update via Winget, you are probably safe. Winget downloads the installer from GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...
    comment by Ayesh · 2026-02-02 · in Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
  7. I still use K-Lite Codec Pack on all of my Windows systems: https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by Lammy · 2026-01-02 · in What you need to know before touching a video file
  8. These ones actually: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/304075
    comment by janpio · 2025-10-16 · in Zed is now available on Windows
  9. Soon https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/303728
    comment by metaltyphoon · 2025-10-15 · in Zed is now available on Windows
  10. Docker Engine without Docker Desktop is available through winget as "Docker CLI"[1]. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by GrantMoyer · 2025-09-05 · in I ditched Docker for Podman
  11. …//learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/wi... It's easy enough to view the manifests (eg, https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/2ecf2187ea0bf1... ) and arguably, is better then the protection for MITM that you would get…
    comment by tim-- · 2025-06-25 · in Microsoft Edit
  12. It is available via winget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... Could be installed with winget install Microsoft.Edit
    comment by agrmohit · 2025-05-20 · in Edit is now open source
  13. …if there is an approval process it seems to be quite vulnerable to including malware. Edit: Example https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...
    comment by RamRodification · 2025-03-03 · in Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data
  14. Yes. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by reshlo · 2024-10-18 · in Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?
  15. 7.0 is now available: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/147886
    comment by lstamour · 2024-04-05 · in FFmpeg 7.0
  16. The winget community repo is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by lstamour · 2024-04-05 · in FFmpeg 7.0
  17. …moment trusting winget is still quite a bit easier, even after the burnout I had from choco. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    comment by WorldMaker · 2023-11-07 · in The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download New Software
  18. …of so much junk, but I still also appreciate being able to manage store installs with winget. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    comment by WorldMaker · 2023-10-29 · in The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed
  19. …different groups and sources and is not really about Linux or Windows in particular as much. 1: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    comment by kbenson · 2023-07-13 · in “Computer security 80% solved if we deprecate technology shown in this graphic”
  20. …in most cases either, but at least includes SHA checksums. For instance, 7zip's manifests: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... It's too bad there's still not a great option for "average user that doesn't…
    comment by WorldMaker · 2023-05-18 · in Seven.zip
  21. There are 2 sources. A community repo: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... You can, and "highly encouraged" to pull request packages The other one is the MS App Store itself
    comment by haunter · 2023-02-03 · in Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
  22. Yes, you're quite right. For future reference the GitHub manifest page seems to be the better choice: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes...
    comment by sharken · 2022-04-13 · in Git security vulnerability announced
  23. …thus being exempt from tracking?) [1] https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox#files [2] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...
    comment by Tijdreiziger · 2022-03-17 · in Each Firefox download has a unique identifier
  24. …this is what publishing a new version looks like [2]. I guess we can always build a separate UI. 1: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs 2: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/30035
    comment by wongarsu · 2021-10-11 · in Windows Package Manager 1.1
  25. …may help adoption in other distros in the future. [1] https://repology.org/project/bc/versions [2] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs [3] https://community.chocolatey.org/packages?q=%22bc%22 Hope your implementation wins ;)
    comment by ducktective · 2021-09-25 · in Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
  26. https://github.com/Microsoft/winget-pkgs Pretty much everything major with a installer is covered.
    comment by easton · 2020-12-25 · in Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
  27. …ikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Software_Center [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager) [3] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifes... [4] https://www.google.com/search?q=winget+GUI [5]…
    comment by sergeykish · 2020-06-14 · in Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB
  28. …this kind of friction with the tooling helps no-one. [0] https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pull/1241
    comment by sequence7 · 2020-06-02 · in Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
  29. …he should credited more. https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/appget/appget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes... https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/blob/master/manife...
    comment by fomine3 · 2020-06-01 · in Microsoft copied new Windows Package Manager from rival AppGet, claims developer
  30. …more credit. appget: https://github.com/appget/appget.packages/blob/master/manife... winget: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes... scoop: https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop-extras/blob/master/buck... homebrew…
    comment by waon · 2020-05-28 · in The Day AppGet Died
  31. ….exe files and then executes them. There's no dependency management. Look at the firefox "package": https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes... There isn't even any uninstall functionality. This is a package manager as…
    comment by phiresky · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Package Manager Preview
  32. Use with Windows Package Manager Community repo https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    comment by aspenmayer · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Package Manager (Winget)
  33. …Microsoft is going to actually foul up poorly here, which I... went ahead and filed an issue on: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/288 In short, a Microsoft employee added AdoptOpenJDK 8 to the repo. ...Java 8? ...In 2020?…
    comment by ocdtrekkie · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Package Manager Preview
  34. …look like there is field for dependencies of a package, but this is also a 0.1.0 release. [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
    comment by open-paren · 2020-05-19 · in Windows Package Manager Preview