Windows Package Manager 1.3.1681 RC adds support for portable app installation

Over a month ago, we heard that the Windows Package Manager - also known as winget - had received initial support for installing portable apps in a software preview. Now it looks like Microsoft is ready to add full support to stable releases of winget, as the latest release candidate (RC) includes this feature.

For those who don’t know what portable or standalone apps are, they are basically software that does not require traditional installation from the Microsoft Store or using traditional .msi or .exe files. You can extract the program files to any folder and run the application immediately. One of the benefits of portable apps is that you can save them on removable storage and run them on any Windows PC without installation, which is very convenient for troubleshooting or maintenance.

Windows Package Manager 1.3.1681 is available as an RC version with the following features:

• Support for installing portable/standalone applications
• Add to manifest Add comment/info field
• Add optional URL to expected return code
• Manifest field for user manual/documentation
• Add alternative version number field to manifest to make it consistent with Correlation of entries in add/remove programs is more reliable
• Always use settings for verbose logs
• winget --info should print the system architecture
• Better progress bar
• There are also some known issues:

• Search for dotnet packages
• Allow winget to install MS Store packages without an account , just like MS Store
• --include-unknown does not work as expected
• Includes fix for application installer bug that caused crash due to reading a null pointer

The full changelog is quite long, but you can view it here.

Microsoft has noted that it has disabled experimental features in this release because this is a release candidate. It plans to release another similar version with upcoming experimental features. The latest version is available for users running Windows 10 version 1809 or later as well as Windows 11. You can download it from here.

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