WingetUI gets custom sources, filtering, performance boost, Defender block prevention

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WingetUI, which is a third-party GUI utility tool for managing CLI package managers like Winget or Scoop, received its latest update a couple of days ago. The new update, version 2.1.0, brings performance improvements related to package imports and parsing as well as CLI outputs, adds a couple of major source-related upgrades, like source filtering as well as support for custom sources, and more.

There are new special icons for installed, blacklisted, and upgradable packages. The app now also comes digitally signed so Microsoft Defender and other anti-malware products should no longer block it. You can find the full release notes below:

.NET Tool package manager is now fully supported in WingetUI

WingetUI can now filter packages depending on their source

Chocolatey installed packages have been fixed

Notifications will be shown again if enabled

WingetUI can now be installed on a local environment

Winget does now support custom sources

WingetUI is now digitally signed

Arm systems will automatically use arm64 winget versions.

Packages won't be outdated anymore on the discover packages section

Theme switching won't require restarting WingetUI. Instead, the new theme will be applied instantaneously.

Installed, blacklisted and upgradable packages will show special icons to distinguish them from regular packages.

The package importer is now much faster.

Winget will handle locales properly

Chocolatey will be added to path automatically if certain conditions are met

Command-line outputs are more responsive

Improved package parsing

Interface appearance and behaviour improvements

Custom icon databases will be configurable

Markdown parsing has been improved

Lots of other bugfixes and improvements

What's Changed

Fix typo by @HorridModz in #1252

Change Winget Releaser job to ubuntu-latest by @sitiom in #1286

Update lang_zh_CN translations by @adfnekc in #1290

Support markdown on scoop by @BastianKamp in #1317

[NPM] manage updates for global installed packages and fix uninstall command by @joguarino in #1318

Allow custom icon data base by @BastianKamp in #1319

Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #1338

Fix typo in licenses section by @reima in #1343

Automatically change theme when system theme changes by @marticliment in #1345

Finish Implement winget sources by @marticliment in #1352

Add an interface to filter packages by source by @marticliment in #1353

Add base structure of new filtering options by @marticliment in #1361

Center PackageInfoPopupWindow Position when Opened by @raghavdhingra24 in #1370

Reorganize code by @marticliment in #1375

Add support for .Net Tool by @marticliment in #1382

Update translations from Tolgee by @github-actions in #1390

Update icons and screenshots from the excel file by @github-actions in #1391