How do you list available updates including pinned, like winget upgrade?

[o-l-a-v]

Related to #4375.

How do you even list available updates with Microsoft.WinGet.Client? Including pinned?

Here's the available cmdlets in v1.7.10861:

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Cmdlet          Add-WinGetSource                                   1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Assert-WinGetPackageManager                        1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Disable-WinGetSetting                              1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Enable-WinGetSetting                               1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Export-WinGetPackage                               1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Find-WinGetPackage                                 1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Get-WinGetPackage                                  1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Get-WinGetSettings                                 1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Get-WinGetSource                                   1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Get-WinGetUserSettings                             1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Get-WinGetVersion                                  1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Install-WinGetPackage                              1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Remove-WinGetSource                                1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Repair-WinGetPackageManager                        1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Reset-WinGetSource                                 1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Set-WinGetUserSettings                             1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Test-WinGetUserSettings                            1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Uninstall-WinGetPackage                            1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client
Cmdlet          Update-WinGetPackage                               1.7.10861  Microsoft.WinGet.Client

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Before posting I found this:

• How can I extract a list of IDs from winget upgrade? #2589 (reply in thread)

$installed = Get-WinGetPackage -Source winget
$updatable = $installed | Where-Object IsUpdateAvailable | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Id
$updatable

That does not seem like a complete solution. For instance, you can't do --include-pinned or --include-unknown, like winget upgrade. With winget upgrade --include-pinned I get:

C:\Users\olavb>winget upgrade --include-pinned
Name           Id               Version       Available     Source
------------------------------------------------------------------
Discord        Discord.Discord  1.0.9017      1.0.9035      winget
Microsoft Edge Microsoft.Edge   123.0.2420.81 123.0.2420.97 winget
NTLite         Nlitesoft.NTLite 2024.3.9819.0 2024.4.9860.0 winget
3 upgrades available.

C:\Users\olavb>

With Get-WinGetPackage -Source 'WinGet' | Where-Object -Property 'IsUpdateAvailable' I get nothing.

Get-WinGetPackage -Source 'WinGet' -Id 'Discord.Discord' does not list a newer available version, like winget upgrade --include-pinned does.

[sagisar1]

@o-l-a-v , i don't know if this is relevant, but you can try this
$upgradables = winget upgrade | findstr winget

foreach ($line in $upgradables) {
# Updated regex to accept optional '<' before version numbers
if ($line -match '^(.?)\s+(\S+)\s+<?\s(\S+)\s+<?\s*(\S+)\s+winget$') {
$packageId = $matches[2]
# Output Package id
$packageId
}
}

[o-l-a-v]

Thanks for the workaround, but not relevant. I think the PowerShell module should be able to do this too.

[sagisar1]

When I tried the PowerShell module as proposed in #4375 , it didn’t list all available packages that can be upgraded
This is why I use this code

[Trenly]

What version of the PowerShell module are you using?

Here is my list of pins:

Name                         Id                         Version              Source Pin type
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft Teams              Microsoft.Teams            25163.3603.3726.6482 winget Pinning
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft.VisualStudioCode 1.100.2              winget Pinning
Notepad++ (64-bit x64)       Notepad++.Notepad++        8.7.9                winget Pinning
TeamViewer                   TeamViewer.TeamViewer      15.68.5              winget Pinning
AutoHotkey 1.1.37.02         AutoHotkey.AutoHotkey      1.1.37.02            winget Blocking
Google Chrome                Google.Chrome              139.0.7258.67        winget Pinning
OBS Studio                   OBSProject.OBSStudio       31.0.2               winget Pinning
Dropbox                      Dropbox.Dropbox            229.4.5197           winget Pinning
Microsoft OneDrive           Microsoft.OneDrive         25.137.0715.0001     winget Pinning
Python 3.12.9 (64-bit)       Python.Python.3.12         3.12.9               winget Pinning

And the same command that isn't working for you, is working for me, and is showing pinned packages that have upgrades:

PS C:\Users\kaleb> Get-WinGetPackage -Source winget | Where-Object -Property IsUpdateAvailable

Name                         Id                         Version       Available      Source
----                         --                         -------       ---------      ------
7-Zip                        7zip.7zip                  25.00         25.01          winget
AutoHotkey                   AutoHotkey.AutoHotkey      1.1.37.02     2.0.19         winget
Notepad++                    Notepad++.Notepad++        8.7.9         8.8.4          winget
TeamViewer                   TeamViewer.TeamViewer      15.68.5       15.68.6        winget
paint.net                    dotPDN.PaintDotNet         5.1.8         5.1.9          winget
Google Chrome                Google.Chrome              139.0.7258.67 139.0.7258.128 winget
GitHub CLI                   GitHub.cli                 2.76.1        2.76.2         winget
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit          Nvidia.CUDA                12.9          13.0           winget
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Microsoft.VisualStudioCode 1.100.2       1.103.1        winget
Dropbox                      Dropbox.Dropbox            229.4.5197    230.4.8797     winget
OBS Studio                   OBSProject.OBSStudio       31.0.2        31.1.2         winget
Discord                      Discord.Discord            1.0.9163      1.0.9202       winget
Element                      Element.Element            1.11.106      1.11.109       winget
Python 3.12                  Python.Python.3.12         3.12.9        3.12.10        winget
Microsoft Teams              Microsoft.Teams            25163.3603.3… 25198.1109.38… winget

[lonmiller]

What command did you run to get that list of pinned packages?

[o-l-a-v]

winget pin list

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/pinning#subcommands