Release history since v1.0

v1.0.7 latest

Reliability fixes on top of v1.0.6 — and the first PowerShell Gallery release that contains the v1.0.6 changes.

• PSF default selection on Windows PowerShell 5.1 — the module import and Set-MSIXActivePSFFramework -Framework TimManganPSF now pick the newest release by version. The release folders use different tag formats (2026-2-22, 2026.05.01); they were compared as text, and Windows PowerShell 5.1 picked an older release than PowerShell 7.
• Renamed Get-MSIXVirtualRegistryKeysAndValues (v1.0.6) to Get-MSIXVirtualRegistryKey, in line with Set-/Remove-MSIXVirtualRegistryKey.
• Clean error stream — Import-Module no longer leaves entries in $Error, Close-MSIXPackage removes the temporary folder including the hidden hive logs, and Add-MSIXFixSSMS22 no longer reports a StopUpstreamCommandsException on Windows PowerShell 5.1.
• PowerShell Gallery tags — trimmed to the essentials: MSIX, AppX, PSF, PackageSupportFramework, Packaging, Repackaging.
• Cmdlet reference — lists exactly the exported cmdlets.
• VC++ runtime without installation — the PSF fixups need msvcp140.dll / vcruntime140.dll in the package, and Tim Mangan’s PSF does not ship them. The new script Tools\Export-VCRuntimeForPSF.ps1 collects them on a machine that has the VC++ Redistributable, in the PSF folder layout (amd64\, win32\), so a packaging machine does not need the redistributable installed.

v1.0.6

Tooling survives module updates, public virtual-registry cmdlets, cleanup fixes.

• Tooling survives Update-Module — the downloaded tooling (PSF builds, Windows SDK packaging tools, MSIX Core) now lives in a Tooling folder in the module root, next to the version folders, instead of inside a version folder. The import banner points out tooling left behind by an older version, and the new Copy-MSIXTooling takes it over without downloading it again. See Where the tooling lives.
• Virtual registry cmdlets are public — Get-MSIXVirtualRegistryKeysAndValues (renamed to Get-MSIXVirtualRegistryKey in v1.0.7), Set-MSIXVirtualRegistryKey, Remove-MSIXVirtualRegistryKey and Remove-MSIXVirtualRegistryValue read and write the package hives (User.dat = HKCU, Registry.dat = HKLM) directly, so app defaults can be set in your own scripts without writing an Add-MSIXFix* cmdlet. The cmdlets were reworked on the way: a value larger than 4 KB no longer hangs the reader in an endless loop, DWord/QWord/Binary data comes back as numbers and bytes instead of garbled text, all common value types (String, ExpandString, MultiString, DWord, QWord, Binary) are written correctly, removals are idempotent, -WhatIf is supported, and errors name the Win32 cause. Writing to the hives of a real package needs an elevated PowerShell.
• Invoke-MSIXCleanup — on Windows PowerShell 5.1 the .pdb/.tmp/.log cleanup also matched 8.3 short names and could delete unrelated files (e.g. X.Logic → X4FD2~1.LOG); only real extensions match now. Removing empty folders no longer loops endlessly with -WhatIf or when a folder cannot be deleted.
• New fix: Add-MSIXFixSumatraPDF — excludes %LOCALAPPDATA%\SumatraPDF from write virtualization, so SumatraPDF-settings.txt lives in the real LocalAppData and the external editor opened via “Advanced Options” finds it (Windows 10 build 20348+ / Windows 11).
• New fix: Add-MSIXFixSSMS22 — fixes “Error opening the connection dialog – Element not found (0x80070490)” in SSMS 21/22 packages by recreating the Visual Studio setup instance (state.json) the connection dialog looks up. It also drops the packaging machine’s NGEN images, the VS Installer payload, the captured account stores, the captured services (VS Installer elevation and diagnostics collector; keep them with -NotRemoveServices), the unused WindowsAppRuntime dependency and the .NETFramework machine keys, and removes the Visual Studio Installer app and its Start menu entry.
• Close-MSIXPackage — the “No config.json.xml found” warning now only appears when the package contains PSF launchers; packages without PSF close quietly.
• Source layout — the ready-made Add-MSIXFix* cmdlets now live together in src/Public/Fixes (see Build your own fix).

v1.0.5

PSF reliability fixes, application-variant and configuration improvements.

• PSF config reliability fixes — isReadOnly and the monitor wait flag are now written into config.json as JSON booleans (previously quoted strings), which fixed a FixupEntryPoint 0x23e that could stop a fixed app from starting. Windows paths whose segments look like escape sequences (e.g. \firefox.exe, \b, \t) are now escaped correctly when generating config.json, fixing corrupted executable paths.
• New-MSIXApplicationVariant — -DisplayName sets the cloned application’s Start-menu name, and -NoExtensions clones a pure launcher variant without the FTA/protocol extensions. Clones reuse the source application’s icon assets — no regeneration required.
• Set-MSIXForceletsConfiguration — -PSFDebugLevel now takes named levels ('0=Disable' … '20=Debug supermax') instead of raw numbers, and the new -PSFEnableReportError toggles the PSF error dialogs for debugging.
• Set-MSIXActivePSFFramework — tab-completion for -Framework offers the installed families and the downloaded release builds.
• Add-MSIXPSFMonitor — -Executable is now optional (defaults to the in-package PsfMonitor path) and a monitor process exclusion is added automatically so the monitor is not re-injected into itself.
• Remove-MSIXDependencies — -Name now accepts wildcards, e.g. Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime*.
• Typo fix — Add-MSIXPSFShim — the misspelled cmdlet Add-MSXIXPSFShim was renamed to Add-MSIXPSFShim, and its parameter -MISXAppID (also used by several other cmdlets) to -MSIXAppID. The old names are kept as aliases, so existing scripts keep working.
• Add-MSIXPSFDefaultRegLegacy — with -AllowRedirectHKLMWrites the conflicting HKLM read-only rules (Full2R/RW2R) are now omitted; they would otherwise downgrade the HKLM open to read-only and defeat the HKLM2HKCU redirect.
• Console-output hygiene — suppressed stray pipeline output from Add-MSIXPSFDefaultFRF, Add-MSIXPSFFileRedirectionFixup and Add-MSIXDisableWriteVirtualization (internal XML nodes were leaking to the console).

v1.0.3

File type associations, application editing, icon repair, packaging refinements.

• File type associations — Add/Get/Set/Remove-MSIXFileTypeAssociation manage windows.fileTypeAssociation entries (extensions, verbs, logo) per application.
• Set-MSIXApplication — rename the Id (-NewId), repoint the launcher (-Executable), set the working directory and default parameters (uap11) and toggle autostart (windows.startupTask) via -Autostart.
• Set-MSIXApplicationIcon — regenerates transparent icon assets (incl. unplated target sizes) and wires them into an application’s VisualElements in one call — fixing boxed/plated Start-menu and taskbar icons.
• Packaging refinements — New-MSIXAssetFrom -IncludeUnplatedTargetSizes; Close-MSIXPackage -PrettyPrint / -RegenerateResource (makepri); reworked flexible virtualization (Disable / Directory / Registry sets with selective HKCU-key and AppData-folder exclusions); Add-MSIXDesktop7Shortcut -SubFolder plus package-level shortcut handling; Set-MSIXSignature -NoTimestamp; Open-MSIXPackage resolves relative -MsixFile paths; Get-MSIXApplications also returns uap11 working directory/parameters and autostart state.
• Breaking change — Add-MSIXDisableVREGOrRegistryWrite renamed to Add-MSIXDisableWriteVirtualization (clearer name; covers file-system and registry write virtualization).

v1.0.2

Tags, Update-MSIXTMPSF format fix, umbrella update cmdlet.

• Update-MSIXTMPSF — now handles both Tim Mangan PSF release formats: the legacy single ZipRelease*.zip wrapper and the newer DebugPsf.zip + ReleasePsf.zip pair (introduced in v2026.05.01). Without this fix the cmdlet silently fell back to the previous release that still shipped the wrapper.
• Install-MSIXForceletsAllRequirements — new umbrella cmdlet that downloads/updates the MSIX tooling (MSIX Core + SDK Packaging Tools), Tim Mangan’s PSF and the Microsoft PSF in one call. Use -Skip* switches to opt out of individual parts; -Force re-downloads existing components.
• Discoverability — expanded PowerShell Gallery tags: CodeSigning, Signing, Manifest, AppAttach, AVD, AzureVirtualDesktop, Repackaging, desktop7, AppV.

v1.0.0

Initial PowerShell Gallery release.

• Full MSIX/AppX edit workflow — Open-MSIXPackage / Close-MSIXPackage, Set-MSIXPublisher, Set-MSIXSignature, Set-MSIXPackageVersion, Test-MSIXSignature.
• Package Support Framework integration — Add-MSIXPsfFrameworkFiles, Add-MSIXPSFShim, MFRFixup, RegLegacyFixups, FileRedirectionFixup, DynamicLibraryFixup, EnvVarFixup, PSF PowerShell scripts, FTA/COM and monitor/tracing helpers.
• desktop7:Shortcut management — Add/Get/Remove/Repair-MSIXDesktop7Shortcut with per-user-location defaults and custom icon support.
• Ready-made application fixes — Acrobat Reader DC, GIMP, LibreOffice, Notepad++, SSMS, WinRAR (incl. modern shell) and more.
• Assets, variants & App Attach — New-MSIXAssetFrom, New-MSIXApplicationVariant, capabilities, services, dependencies, App Attach (New-MSIXAppAttachImage, New-MSIXDynamicAppAttachDisk) and self-signing certificates.
• Tooling helpers — Update-MSIXTooling, Update-MSIXTMPSF, Update-MSIXMicrosoftPSF. Large binaries (MSIX SDK, PSF redistributables) are downloaded on demand and are not shipped in the package.

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