UniGetUI 3.1.1 beta 1

Changes

• The WinGet COM APIs are now used to fetch installed packages and updates.
• An issue where System Chocolatey wouldn't work has been fixed
• Fixed more issues with character garbling and issues with the encoding

SHA256: 74AF0240FF9F7C5933B5643B9EFAA1B67CF5EF3E14170EBDDC0C1A78588210B5

UniGetUI 3.1.1 beta 0

Changes

• Added back bundled WinGet compatibility. This fixes:

  • No WinGet packages showing.
  • Microsoft.WinGet.Client not working/crashing
  • Microsoft.WinGet.Client not being compatible with Windows Server 2019

• Issues with package encoding

  • WinGet will be found on systems where the user does not have a ascii-only username
  • WinGet packages showing garbled packages

SHA256: 3AECDE9E71B0968555AB2EC4C9308C0F7FCA95629E2D3C214254BF55265BD60E

UniGetUI 3.1.0

NOTE: WingetUI is now UniGetUI. Refer to #1900 for more details

Changelog

• WingetUI is now UniGetUI. A new icon completes the rebranding
• The Package Engine has undergone an entire redesign
  • Package managers that support so fetch packages via APIs (WinGet uses COM, NuGet-Based use REST nuget APIs, etc.). This leads to important speed improvements
  • The way in which icons are loaded has been renewed. Package managers that support so will provide the icons directly to the packages.
  • Microsoft Store (winget: msstore) packages show their screenshots on the details page.
  • System WinGet is now used by default. Bundled WinGet is no longer used to fetch or to install packages.
    • WinGet Packages will not show ellipted anymore.
  • Lifecycle of Packages, PackageDetails and InstallationOptions have been modified to not have duplicated instances of the same data in ram. Package data that has been already loaded will not be loaded again, and will be recycled from an older load instead.
  • Widgets for UniGetUI will now load packages faster, and does not rely on the interface as much as it used to.
  • When a package manager is missing a dependency, the user will be prompted to install it.
• Important improvements across the entire interface
  • The Software Pages have been rebuilt with ItemsView in favour of ListView. This decreases the amount of used RAM (70~100mb less aprox.)
  • The Package Details page has been rebuilt with RichTextBlock. Content does not overflow and is overall better presented. Bold, italic and greyed out fonts are used to make the interface more understandable. Text and URLs can be copied.
  • The Logs pages have been rebuilt, to provide more important information better. Different levels of logs have been introduced, easing the process of debugging and understanding issues.
  • The Settings page has been reorganized into more coherent categories
  • Improvements to ContentDialogs. Dialogs that do not prompt the user for a decision have a "Close" button at the top-right corner of the dialog.
• The Package Engine has been internally decoupled from the Interface.
• The System Tray has new, pixel-perfect icons.
• The installer will ensure WinGet and Microsoft.WinGet.Client are present on the system.
• The installer will allow the user to not install Chocolatey
• Tons of bugfixes and improvements.

What's Changed

• [Not priority] Fix random mistakes in README (mainly typos) by @tiagorangel2011 in #2011
• Dotnet runtime bootstrapper by @marticliment in #1970
• Show 'Update' Button in Tray Notification When Only One Update is Available by @CoolSpy3 in #2055
• Update readme.md by @marticliment in #2057
• Fix #1995: [BUG] Notification tray icon by @CoolSpy3 in #2072
• Winget COM API compatibility by @marticliment in #2035
• fix scoop-search autofix error by @ercJuL in #2086
• Update installation step via Scoop by @Goooler in #2079
• Adds additional description to package manager toggles by @turw41th in #2107
• Fixed a bug in package search by @ArtyomZabroda in #2091
• README mistakes by @skanda890 in #2126
• Update Code of Conduct, Contributing Guidelines and Security.md by @skanda890 in #2127
• Update bug-issue.yml and hard-crash.yml to Correct spelling mistakes by @skanda890 in #2130
• Rebrand WingetUI to UniGetUI by @marticliment in #2032
• Fix ParentContainsErrorRecordException if a Windows limited user resets Winget sources by @pomodori92 in #2150
• Add Missing Line Break in CLI Parameters Section of README by @CoolSpy3 in #2175
• Very basic start by @Atrejoe in #2176
• Separate UniGetUI into modules by @marticliment in #2161
• ICU message format for translations by @flatron4eg in #2045
• Use Windows display language instead of regional format by @KimCM in #2285
• Better Package Manager Loggers by @marticliment in #2292
• Keyboard navigation by @marticliment in #2307
• Update licenses, disclaimer on the about page by @marticliment in #2309
• Package data lifecycle optimization by @marticliment in #2317
• Decouple loading and "holding" packages from the UI - Creation of PackageLoaders by @marticliment in #2328
• Replace ListView with ItemsView by @marticliment in #2335
• Move message formatter in LanguageEngine, add locale for message formatter by @flatron4eg in #2326
• Update SECURITY.md by @skanda890 in #2129
• Update bug-issue.yml by @marticliment in #2341
• This removes grammatical mistakes from the code. by @skanda890 in #2340
• Update readme.md by @skanda890 in #2360
• Update translations from Tolgee by @github-actions in #2363
• Add translation string in the installer ("Install Chocolatey") by @mapi68 in #2369
• Update icons and screenshots from the excel file by @github-actions in #2370

New Contributors

• @tiagorangel2011 made their first contribution in #2011
• @CoolSpy3 made their first contribution in #2055
• @ercJuL made their first contribution in #2086
• @Goooler made their first contribution in #2079
• @turw41th made their first contribution in #2107
• @ArtyomZabroda made their first contribution in #2091
• @skanda890 made their first contribution in #2126
• @pomodori92 made their first contribution in #2150
• @Atrejoe made their first contribution in #2176
• @KimCM made their first contribution in #2285

Full Changelog: 3.0.2...3.1.0

SHA256: 4b0dc505ca5ac64c76b5acb0ea84f70cb9f3b35adc5d2d5ee24862a4e9dc9ecb
Note: Both installers are the same file. WingetUI.Installer.exe has been left for compatibility with the autoupdater, and may be removed in future releases.

UniGetUI 3.1.0 beta 2

IMPORTANT:
This is the third beta release to implement the UniGetUI rebranding.
Instaling this release will automatically migrate settings and other data to new folders (WingetUI -> UniGetUI), so rolling back to older versions of WingetUI may cause settings to be reset.

NOTE: This release attempts to fix unexpected issues with the dependency installers. Assuming no more issues are found after this release, UniGetUI 3.1.0 stable will be published.

Changes

• Fixes to the dependency installers
• Improvements to how Microsoft.WinGet.Client is installed by the installer
• Improvements to the Settings and Log pages.
• Other bugfixes

SHA256: 81af84438e7203eb6765e43c9bd2d19f915f670852956ca8550de5bac39ad223

UniGetUI 3.1.0 beta 1

IMPORTANT:
This is the second beta release to implement the UniGetUI rebranding.
Instaling this release will automatically migrate settings and other data to new folders (WingetUI -> UniGetUI), so rolling back to older versions of WingetUI may cause settings to be reset.

NOTE: This release attempts to fix an unexpected issue with the WinGet package manager interop. Assuming no more issues are found after this release, UniGetUI 3.1.0 stable will be published.

Changes

• This release adds a built-in dependency manager, that checks and prompts the user to install missing dependencies for UniGetUI (let's say, for example, Microsoft.WinGet.Client or Scoop-Search).
• Other minor issues have been fixed on this release.

SHA256: CAFE3438B5852C32A6E18CE52C3B2848F968530E0A13ABA73240624E29766FD5

UniGetUI 3.1.0 beta 0

IMPORTANT:
This is the first beta release to implement the UniGetUI rebranding.
Instaling this release will automatically migrate settings and other data to new folders (WingetUI -> UniGetUI), so rolling back to older versions of WingetUI may cause settings to be reset.

Note: When it comes to features, this release should be quite similar to the stable 3.1.0 release

Changes

• Packages will be loaded and stored by a Package Loader, instead of being loaded by the interface.
• Package lists have been rebuilt to use ItemsView, causing UniGetUI to use less ram (~290mb max -> ~210mb max)
• The Widgets API has been optimized. Packages load up to way faster on the widgets.
• The Package Manager logs have been rebuilt from the grounds up.
  • Package Manager logs for each manager can be isolated
  • Normal and Verbose views available
• Improvements to keyboard navigation
• Chocolatey can be set to not be installed by the UniGetUI Installer
• Lots of internal code changes and optimizations.
• Other bugfixes

SHA256: 79D8266736B46D8B8959DD775702B275AE4B1936EE6485D01C31A1F62418B8DB

UniGetUI 3.1.0 alpha 1

IMPORTANT:
This is the second development release to implement the UniGetUI rebranding.
Instaling this release will automatically migrate settings and other data to new folders (WingetUI -> UniGetUI), so rolling back to older versions of WingetUI may cause settings to be reset.

Changes

• Improvements to the rebranding
• lots of bugfixes and improvements
• Improvements to cache handling with GSudo
• By popular demand, window position and size will be saved across app restarts
• Change how information is rendered on the Package Details tab. Links should be copyable and should not show cut anymore

SHA256: 2B01939FC4E41B3CAF9D9E994B8E57DD3CEA016DFD03DA6CA8378819263EEF04

UniGetUI (formerly WingetUI) 3.1.0 alpha 0

IMPORTANT:
This is the first development release to implement the UniGetUI rebranding.
Instaling this release will automatically migrate settings and other data to new folders (WingetUI -> UniGetUI), so rolling back to older versions of WingetUI may cause settings to be reset.

Changes

• Rebranding from WingetUI to UniGetUI
  • Any occurrences of WingetUI have been changed to UniGetUI
  • Settings have been moved from user profile to AppData\Local
• Improvements to the package managers
  • All dotnet-based package managers do call the nuget api when possible. This dramatically speeds up find packages and loading package details, as well as provides more reliability.
  • All dotnet-based packages will load the official package icon
  • WinGet implements the WinGet COM Api, for improved performance and reliability. WinGet packages do not show elypsis (...) anymore.
  • Microsoft Store packages (currently msix only) will show icons and screenshots
  • The icon caching mechanism has been rebuilt from the grounds up, providing more compatibility with Widgets for WingetUI
• Improvements to Software pages
• Better search experience on the Discover Software page
• Refactoring. Lots of refactoring
• Other improvements and internal changes.

SHA256: 0ec58bc34ff63f0bc1904fe88e8cdd247a2348e259ce8394911979aef5477281

WingetUI 3.0.2

Important note: WingetUI will soon become UniGetUI. Please see #1900 for more details

Changelog

• This unplanned release does fix recent crashes introduced by .NET 8.0.4. It also attempts to fix issues with the App Sdk.
• WingetUI can now be run as administrator from local accounts
• No more changes have been introduced by this release

Full Changelog: 3.0.1...3.0.2

SHA256: 76034ef29c504b27c176041b2215d15e1b2545a433e17f006dd8c22df7b37679

WingetUI 3.0.1

Important note: WingetUI will soon become UniGetUI. Please see #1900 for more details

Changelog

• Fixed an issue where some parts of the interface would not adapt to WingetUI's theme, becoming il·legible
• Fixed an issue where updating scoop packages would incorrectly report an error
• Fixed an issue where running an operation as administrator would fail
• Fixed an issue where some NPM packages wouldn't render correctly
• Fixed an issue where enabling parallel installs for a specific manager wouldn't work
• Package sorting is handled in a more visible way
• Accessibility improvements
• Fixed broken characters on Command-Line outputs
• Fixed an issue where successful operations would disappear from the list when set to not disappear automatically
• Fixed scoop sources not being listed
• Improvements in winget sources reset script
• More efficient handling of WebView objects
• The Interface will now adapt better to wider window sizes
• Other general improvements and fixes

New Contributors

• @mvaneijken made their first contribution in #1940
• @SpaceTimee made their first contribution in #1957
• @Schtenk made their first contribution in #1962

Full Changelog: 3.0.0...3.0.1

SHA256: dabf9a8115e8cf4f3dab56a61b69d354fbfeb5eaacdd50e96be9c2597b0691fe