Latest WingetUI gets new UI, faster loading performance, and lots more

WingetUI, which is a third-party GUI utility tool for managing CLI package managers like Winget or Scoop, has received its latest update today. The new update, version 1.7.0, adds a new interface that allows users to ignore updates, pin packages, among other things. There is also caching improvements in this release which means loading times of packages are much faster. There are many more improvements in this release.

You can find the full changelog below:

New features:

• A new interface is available to ignore updates. It allows:
  • Pinning packages
  • Skipping a version of a package.
  • Viewing and removing single packages from the blacklist
• The Package Details window has a new section that allows to customize the install:
  • All the options are under a collapsable widget
  • User can modify:
    • Architecture to install
    • Installation environment (user or machine, local or global, etc.)
    • Version to install (can automatically blacklist packages when installed, so older versions don’t get updated when installed manually)
    • Custom parameters to pass to the installer. There is now a textbox to be able to do that
  • The Command label has been improved to adapt to the new options and toggles.
• Notifications have been reworked:
  • Notifications will now show buttons on them, to make quick actions easier to reach.
  • Notifications can now be enabled/disabled depending on their category.
• A new, system-integrated share popup has been implemented
• Administrator preferences have been reworked:
  • Package managers can be automatically elevated.
  • The user has the option to cache administrator rights.

Improvements

• WingetUI Interface has been improved:
  • Context menus have more options, and more organized
  • Toolbars show more relevant actions, removing some redundancies with the context menus
  • Scrolling has been improved, featuring:
    • Smooth mouse scrolling
    • Better support for keyboard scrolling
    • Reurn to top buttons
  • The launch popup has been improved.
  • TreeWidgets StyleSheets have been improved to use more efficiently the space available on the window
  • Transparencies have been reworked across the interface, in a way where the interface is now much more responsive
• Chocolatey support has been improved:
  • Installations won’t show a 20-second delay anymore
  • More information is available in the details window
• Scoop support has been improved:
  • Packages are now cached, so loading times are notably faster.
  • More information is available in the details window
  • Error handling has been improved on already-installed updates.
  • Auto-elevation has been improved on uninstalls
• Winget support has been improved:
  • Packages are now cached, so loading times are notably faster.
  • Error handling has been improved on already-installed updates.
  • “Unknown”updates are now properly handled (thanks to the new version skipping feature)