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feat: Add advanced dynamic search for package managers - #4955
Adds background package-catalog search to the Install tab. Curated applications are filtered by the selected manager, and up to 15 additional matches appear under the collapsed Package Manager Results category. Switching managers refreshes the search and deselects incompatible selections.
Dynamic results use official catalog links and initials badges. Selected results survive later searches, while unmatched tiles are hidden. Session-only packages are excluded from configuration exports with a warning. Category filters, offline mode, and active jobs suppress dynamic search. WinGet searches target the community winget source.
Includes main through 48885d7c and the missing commits through PR #4906 head 63d91501. This PR remains stacked on #4906; its rendering and service-maintenance changes are still included until that dependency merges. The integration retains the current job layer, session logging, and Install-tab initialization.
Pester 5.8.0 full suite: 899 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped.
Script Analyzer with project settings: completed with no errors; repository convention warnings remain.
Local Codex review: no actionable correctness findings after the worker-thread taskbar fix.
Windows PowerShell 5.1 real-WPF smoke test, using the actual shared runspace pool: separate result tiles, collapsed state, card-click selection, retained selections, manager switching, category filtering, and clean worker shutdown passed. Package results were deterministic fixtures; no packages were installed or removed.
Live read-only WinGet and Chocolatey searches: parsed successfully.
Independent CodeRabbit CLI review: one multi-category tweak-label issue found and fixed; the follow-up review raised 0 issues. Codex re-review and a real-WPF multi-category smoke test also passed. The latest two GitHub findings are fixed in e5076f8a: manager-specific package-ID deduplication and searching all supported StackPanel entry controls. Seven added regressions pass; real-WPF combo-label and later radio-option checks pass. Codex and CodeRabbit CLI re-reviews raised no issues.
f227db66 coalesces catalog searches to one active worker and the latest pending query, coordinates process-wide encoding with installed-package detection, and retries failed catalog requests without caching failures.
Two independent local Codex reviewers examined the PR, exchanged findings, requested abnormal-exit cleanup, and re-reviewed the final fixes. Both reported no outstanding issues. Hosted Codex review is unavailable; these local reviews are the replacement evidence.
Focused search suite: 50 passed. Full Pester 5.8.0 suite: 895 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped. Compile and diff checks passed. Focused Script Analyzer: no errors; existing warnings remain.
Windows PowerShell 5.1: real WPF/shared-pool stress executed only the active query and latest query, discarded intermediate/stale results, and released worker ownership. Existing selection/manager-switch smoke checks passed. An independent two-runspace check confirmed encoding serialization/restoration on success and native failure.
Current-main integration
Merged main through 48885d7c, resolving the architecture documentation conflict by retaining the session log path, live UI status, and DISM discard behavior. Both independent local reviewers rechecked the integrated PR and agreed there are no actionable findings. A merge-scope CLI review flagged a possible mixed-class nested driver-export edge case in the ISO script; both reviewers confirmed this file is byte-identical to main and no real export reproduction was established, so it is an upstream follow-up rather than a change in this PR. Full Pester: 895 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped; compile, diff validation, real WPF/shared-runspace search checks, and cross-runspace encoding success/failure checks passed. Final local Codex review against current main found no actionable regression and independently reran the full suite successfully. CI passed on 329d112b.
Initial-render feedback
e9765e37 reapplies package-manager filtering after every render batch, including empty searches. Categories hidden before asynchronous entries existed recover as entries arrive, incompatible entries stay hidden, and collapsed headers remain collapsed. Both independent local reviewers agreed clean, and the final local Codex review found no correctness issues. Compile, 55 focused tests, the full Pester suite (899 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped), and independent real-WPF checks for both managers and both header states passed.
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New Features
Application search now includes up to 15 relevant Chocolatey or WinGet results, with manager-specific filtering and refreshed results when switching managers.
Search results remain available during subsequent searches but are excluded from configuration exports.
Package links now open the appropriate Chocolatey or WinGet catalog pages.
Package searches are skipped while offline or during active package operations.
ISO mounting and cleanup now handle timeouts and failures more reliably.
Incompatible selected apps are automatically deselected when changing package managers.
Documentation
Updated application search and system safety guidance.
Walkthrough
The change adds package-manager catalog search and dynamic application results. It updates search filtering, manager switching, export behavior, logging, system detection, repair rollback, UI construction, and related tests and documentation.
Changes
Package manager search flow
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Package manager search and availability functions/private/Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps.ps1, functions/private/Test-WinUtilPackageManager.ps1, pester/package.Tests.ps1
Chocolatey and Winget searches return normalized package objects. Availability checks now require all selected commands.
Search orchestration and stale-result handling functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1, pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1
Search requests reuse tokens, filter curated entries by manager, cache results, reject stale responses, and limit catalog results to 15.
Manager changes refresh results and remove incompatible selections. Dynamic entries use encoded keys and are excluded from exports.
Application maintenance
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Tweak filtering and UI construction functions/private/Find-TweaksByNameOrDescription.ps1, functions/public/Invoke-WPFUIElements.ps1, pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1
Tweak searches use literal matching and preserve category state. UI construction can yield to the dispatcher and reapply filters after controls are built.
System detection validation functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilCurrentSystem.ps1, functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilTweaks.ps1, pester/system-helpers.Tests.ps1
Detection uses explicit iteration and stricter aggregate service validation.
Logging and repair operations functions/private/Write-WinUtilLog.ps1, functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISO.ps1, functions/public/Invoke-WPFFixesUpdate.ps1, docs/src/content/docs/code-reference/architecture.mdx
Logging adds error tracking, debug filtering, serialized writes, and transcript handling. ISO cleanup and Windows Update repair add failure handling and rollback.
sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant InstallTab
participant FindApps as Find-AppsByNameOrDescription
participant PackageSearch as Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps
participant Catalog
User->>InstallTab: enter search or switch manager
InstallTab->>FindApps: submit current search and manager
FindApps->>PackageSearch: start tokenized catalog query
PackageSearch->>Catalog: run Winget or Chocolatey search
Catalog-->>PackageSearch: return package rows
PackageSearch-->>FindApps: return normalized results
FindApps-->>InstallTab: render curated and dynamic results
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Merge Risk:🟠 High · up to 945c0
The current evidence indicates broken tests and several user-facing workflow defects, including an ISO that can remain mounted after failure. These should be resolved before merge.
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Remove the unrelated behavior changes from this PR, or move them to separate pull requests. Keep the package-manager search, manager-change refresh, incompatible-selection removal, export handling, related tests, and required documentation.
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Lines 329 and 331 perform the same comparison with no code between them. Delete one of them.
♻️ Proposed fix
if ($sync.LatestPackageManagerSearch -ne $SearchString) { return }
- if ($sync.LatestPackageManagerSearch -ne $SearchString) { return }-
if ($null -ne $sync.ItemsControl -and $null -ne $sync.ItemsControl.Dispatcher) {
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1` around lines 329 - 331,
Remove the duplicated LatestPackageManagerSearch comparison in the stale-search
validation block, keeping a single check that returns when it differs from
$SearchString.
The silent guard removes user feedback on invalid state.
The function now returns without any message when $sync.ItemsControl or the catalog is missing. The project keeps user-feedback patterns for search actions. Add a Write-Debug or Write-Warning call so a failed Install-tab search is diagnosable from the session log.
As per coding guidelines: "Preserve existing logging and user-feedback patterns for long-running or destructive operations."
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In `@functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1` around lines 55 - 57, Add
diagnostic feedback to the early guard in Find-AppsByNameOrDescription by
issuing an appropriate Write-Debug or Write-Warning message before returning
when sync state, ItemsControl, configs, or applicationsHashtable is missing.
Preserve the existing validation and return behavior, and match the function’s
established search-action logging style.
Both handlers contain the same three lines. Move them into a small helper, for example Update-WinUtilInstallSearchResults, and call it from each handler. This keeps the two package managers in sync when the refresh condition changes.
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.
In `@scripts/main.ps1` around lines 137 - 148, Extract the shared install-search
refresh condition and Find-AppsByNameOrDescription call from the
ChocoRadioButton and WingetRadioButton handlers into a helper named
Update-WinUtilInstallSearchResults, then invoke that helper from both handlers
after updating their package manager preference.
Winget column split can absorb trailing non-package lines.
Lines after the dash separator can include informational text, for example the truncation notice that winget prints when results exceed the terminal width. Such a line splits into two or more columns and becomes a package entry with an invalid Id. Add a filter that requires the Id column to contain no whitespace.
♻️ Proposed filter
if ($name -and $id) {
+ if ($id -match '\s') { continue }
$results.Add([pscustomobject]@{
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In `@functions/private/Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps.ps1` around lines 76 - 93,
Update the package-row parsing in Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps so entries are
added only when the trimmed Id contains no whitespace. Apply this validation
alongside the existing non-empty Name and Id checks before results.Add, while
preserving valid package rows.
Native command failures do not throw, so error output can be parsed as packages.
choco search ... 2>&1 merges stderr into $out. A non-zero exit code does not raise an exception, so the catch block at Line 96 never runs for CLI failures. Any stderr line that contains | becomes a package entry. Check $LASTEXITCODE after the call and return an empty array when the command fails.
The same check applies to the winget search call at Line 61.
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In `@functions/private/Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps.ps1` around lines 40 - 51,
Update the choco search flow in Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps by checking
$LASTEXITCODE immediately after the command and returning an empty array when it
is non-zero, before parsing $out. Apply the same failure guard to the winget
search call so native command error output is never treated as package data.
The deduplication test can pass without running the package-manager flow.
The assertion only checks that a key is absent. It also passes when Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps is never called, or when the UI update block returns early. Add Should -Invoke Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps -Times 1 and a companion test where a non-curated result creates the dynamic entry. The positive test proves that dynamic entry creation works and gives the negative test meaning.
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In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1` around lines 475 - 488, Strengthen the
deduplication coverage around Find-AppsByNameOrDescription by asserting
Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps is invoked exactly once in the curated-result
test. Add a companion test using a non-curated package-manager result and verify
its dynamic applicationsHashtable entry is created, so the negative assertion
proves deduplication rather than an unexecuted or early-returned flow.
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In `@functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1`:
- Around line 339-341: Update the fallback around $sync.UpdatePackageManagerUI
so background-runspace execution never modifies WPF controls directly. Use
$sync.Form.Dispatcher as the secondary dispatcher when
$sync.ItemsControl.Dispatcher is unavailable, and skip the UI update when
neither dispatcher exists; retain direct invocation only for explicitly
supported test hosts.
- Around line 234-268: Update the dynamic package-manager result rendering
around the $appKey and Initialize-InstallAppEntry logic to remove or otherwise
cap previously generated WPFInstall_dynamic_ entries from
$sync.configs.applicationsHashtable and their corresponding controls in
$pmWrap.Children before adding the new result set. Ensure stale dynamic entries
are no longer visible, selectable, or retained by downstream consumers, while
preserving current rendering and deduplication for the active results.
- Around line 23-30: Update the publisher-derived URL logic in
Find-AppsByNameOrDescription to use ToLowerInvariant() and validate the
publisher token against a valid host-label pattern before interpolation. Fall
back to https://github.com when the token is invalid or too short, and preserve
the existing URL behavior for valid tokens; keep the unrelated source-URL
redesign out of scope.
In `@functions/private/Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps.ps1`:
- Around line 58-65: Update the Winget search flow around the OutputEncoding
assignment in Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps so a failed
[Console]::OutputEncoding update is caught locally and does not abort the
search. Preserve the original encoding when available, but continue executing
winget search without changing encoding when the setter throws, while retaining
cleanup of any successfully applied change.
In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 357-359: Update Remove-WinUtilSearchGlobals to also remove the
global-scope sync variable, ensuring $global:sync assigned by
New-WinUtilAppSearchContext and New-WinUtilTweakSearchContext is cleared between
tests while preserving the existing script-scope cleanup.
---
Nitpick comments:
In `@functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1`:
- Around line 329-331: Remove the duplicated LatestPackageManagerSearch
comparison in the stale-search validation block, keeping a single check that
returns when it differs from $SearchString.
- Around line 55-57: Add diagnostic feedback to the early guard in
Find-AppsByNameOrDescription by issuing an appropriate Write-Debug or
Write-Warning message before returning when sync state, ItemsControl, configs,
or applicationsHashtable is missing. Preserve the existing validation and return
behavior, and match the function’s established search-action logging style.
In `@functions/private/Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps.ps1`:
- Around line 76-93: Update the package-row parsing in
Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps so entries are added only when the trimmed Id
contains no whitespace. Apply this validation alongside the existing non-empty
Name and Id checks before results.Add, while preserving valid package rows.
- Around line 40-51: Update the choco search flow in
Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps by checking $LASTEXITCODE immediately after the
command and returning an empty array when it is non-zero, before parsing $out.
Apply the same failure guard to the winget search call so native command error
output is never treated as package data.
In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 475-488: Strengthen the deduplication coverage around
Find-AppsByNameOrDescription by asserting Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps is
invoked exactly once in the curated-result test. Add a companion test using a
non-curated package-manager result and verify its dynamic applicationsHashtable
entry is created, so the negative assertion proves deduplication rather than an
unexecuted or early-returned flow.
In `@scripts/main.ps1`:
- Around line 137-148: Extract the shared install-search refresh condition and
Find-AppsByNameOrDescription call from the ChocoRadioButton and
WingetRadioButton handlers into a helper named
Update-WinUtilInstallSearchResults, then invoke that helper from both handlers
after updating their package manager preference.
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The test mocks Get-WinUtilPackageLink and Initialize-InstallAppEntry, but it never verifies either call. The test can pass if dynamic entries are created without a package link or initialization.
Proposed assertions
Should -Invoke Find-WinUtilPackageManagerApps -Times 1
+ Should -Invoke Get-WinUtilPackageLink -Times 1 -Exactly+ Should -Invoke Initialize-InstallAppEntry -Times 1 -Exactly
$sync.configs.applicationsHashtable.ContainsKey("WPFInstall_dynamic_winget_Some_New_App") | Should -Be $true
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In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1` around lines 509 - 527, Add assertions to the
“creates dynamic entry for non-curated package manager search results” test
verifying Get-WinUtilPackageLink and Initialize-InstallAppEntry are each invoked
once with the expected dynamic app data. Keep the existing dynamic-entry and
isDynamic assertions unchanged.
This test only supplies Browser.App and checks the Winget-shaped dynamic key. It does not set $sync.preferences.packagemanager or exercise the choco = "browserapp" fixture. Add an explicit Chocolatey case and assert that its dynamic key is absent.
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In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1` around lines 493 - 507, Extend the
“deduplicates package manager search results against curated applications” test
to explicitly set $sync.preferences.packagemanager to Chocolatey, exercise the
existing choco = "browserapp" fixture through Find-AppsByNameOrDescription, and
assert that the corresponding Chocolatey dynamic key is absent, while preserving
the existing Winget assertion.
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In `@pester/search-filter.Tests.ps1`:
- Around line 509-527: Add assertions to the “creates dynamic entry for
non-curated package manager search results” test verifying
Get-WinUtilPackageLink and Initialize-InstallAppEntry are each invoked once with
the expected dynamic app data. Keep the existing dynamic-entry and isDynamic
assertions unchanged.
- Around line 493-507: Extend the “deduplicates package manager search results
against curated applications” test to explicitly set
$sync.preferences.packagemanager to Chocolatey, exercise the existing choco =
"browserapp" fixture through Find-AppsByNameOrDescription, and assert that the
corresponding Chocolatey dynamic key is absent, while preserving the existing
Winget assertion.
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@chatgpt-codex-connector For the third point ('Avoid inventing package website URLs'), this URL generation logic was explicitly requested in the prior review by CodeRabbit to preserve the existing behavior (preserve the existing URL behavior for valid tokens), while falling back to GitHub when the token is invalid. Adding synchronous fetch calls for real metadata would block the UI thread during search, which this PR is specifically designed to fix. Therefore, I will leave this specific part unchanged.
This PR is stacked on top of #4906 to pre-resolve conflicts in Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1. The diff currently shows changes from both PRs. Once #4906 is merged, the diff here will automatically shrink to show only the package manager search changes, and it can be merged immediately after without conflicts.
…ce loops
- Replace O(N^2) array concatenations with generic lists in GUI item rendering and tweak checks
- Convert slow pipeline loops (ForEach-Object) to direct foreach runtime enumeration
- Replace wildcard regex matches in app and tweak search with fast string index lookups
- Add timeout protection and batch file cleanup in ISO mounting workflows
- Prevent file-locking exceptions when logging within an active transcript session
- Streamline Windows Update service repair routines and throttle progress updates during DLL reregistration
- Ensure command quote resilience in sanity tests when invoking nested Windows PowerShell parsers
- Find-TweaksByNameOrDescription: respect collapsed category state on
search reset (mirrors Find-AppsByNameOrDescription); rename $matches
to $isMatch to avoid shadowing the PS automatic variable
- Invoke-WinUtilCurrentSystem: treat a missing service as a mismatch
instead of silently passing validation
- Invoke-WinUtilISO: dismount ISO before throwing timeout error to
prevent stale mounts; restore per-workdir log file for diagnostics
- Test-WinUtilPackageManager: check both managers when both -winget and
-choco switches are passed
- Invoke-WPFFixesUpdate: restore per-service PercentComplete in the
Stop-Service loop; abort on failure instead of silently continuing
Write the modify log to <workDir>.log in %TEMP% instead of a file gated
on $sync["Win11ISOWorkDir"], which is only assigned after a successful
run. The log now starts at the first line, before the work directory is
created, and survives the cleanup that removes that directory, so early
failures leave a diagnostic behind.
Update the empty-search tweak test for the collapsed-category reset
behavior and cover the expanded branch as well.
The reset branch leaves Label.Content alone while the search branch
rewrites "+ X" to "- X". Without these assertions a reset that started
rewriting the marker would desync the label from its collapsed items
and still pass.
Idea... looks promising. I had an idea to just get rid of applications list at all and just make some PS-based alternative of UniGet embedded in WinUtil.
@ChrisTitusTech note this down, may be useful for both WinUtil and OneShot
Idea... looks promising. I had an idea to just get rid of applications list at all and just make some PS-based alternative of UniGet embedded in WinUtil.
@ChrisTitusTech note this down, may be useful for both WinUtil and OneShot
Thanks, appreciate it. That's an interesting direction , a proper PS-native package layer would be a nice thing to have. Curious to see where it goes
The Idea and implementation look mostly good to me.
Idea... looks promising. I had an idea to just get rid of applications list at all and just make some PS-based alternative of UniGet embedded in WinUtil.
Maybe a bit of information on why it was not done like that originally. It was once decided that it was more ideal to "hardcode" applications by design to only offer trusted applicaions.
If u watch the PR history applications were removed once a contributor found out about one having malware/trust issues/was hacked/whatever.
Issue is maintaining such a list is not easy, but also a reason a lot of people trust this utility.
But it is clear that the limited list .. well has limitations.
Therefore I would suggest maybe have a first section for Winutil suggested / trusted by Winutil application and then a second section below with winget query results.
The Idea and implementation look mostly good to me.
Idea... looks promising. I had an idea to just get rid of applications list at all and just make some PS-based alternative of UniGet embedded in WinUtil.
Maybe a bit of information on why it was not done like that originally. It was once decided that it was more ideal to "hardcode" applications by design to only offer trusted applicaions.
If u watch the PR history applications were removed once a contributor found out about one having malware/trust issues/was hacked/whatever.
Issue is maintaining such a list is not easy, but also a reason a lot of people trust this utility.
But it is clear that the limited list .. well has limitations.
Therefore I would suggest maybe have a first section for Winutil suggested / trusted by Winutil application and then a second section below with winget query results.
Thanks for the context, that history is useful, and I agree the curated list is a big part of why people trust WinUtil.
That is how this PR is already built. The curated categories stay exactly as they are, and package manager results only appear in a separate Package Manager Results section below them, so nothing from a live query mixes into the trusted list.
A tabbed layout could work well here later on, one tab for the trusted maintained list and one for a fuller package browser with UniGet style features, but that is a bigger change and a maintainer call, so I have kept this PR to just the second section.
hmm maybe i did not get the latest version of ur branch, for me results were just mixed with the ones from winget, and either way all had "(Winget)", sorry for this I'mma check
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In `@functions/private/Find-AppsByNameOrDescription.ps1`:
- Around line 358-373: Replace the shared curated ID HashSet in the applications
configuration flow with separate case-insensitive Winget and Choco sets, adding
each parsed package ID to its manager-specific set. When invoking each search
worker, pass only the set selected by the current manager variable via the
existing CuratedIds argument so IDs from one namespace do not suppress results
in the other.
In `@functions/private/Find-TweaksByNameOrDescription.ps1`:
- Around line 30-31: Update Get-ItemSearchText’s StackPanel handling to collect
all child controls of type Label, CheckBox, or RadioButton, combining their
Content values into the search text and their ToolTip values into the tooltip
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Current head: 329d112. Both independent local reviewers exchanged findings and agreed clean; final Codex review against current main found no actionable regression. Compile, 895 Pester tests (0 failures, 1 skip), real WPF/shared-runspace and encoding checks passed. CI passed on this head and all feedback threads are resolved.
The results panel is collapsed by default, but its only expand action is MouseLeftButtonUp on a non-focusable Label. Keyboard-only users therefore cannot reach any dynamic result. Make the header keyboard-focusable and handle Enter/Space, or use a button/toggle control with equivalent mouse and keyboard behavior.
Keep wizard on Output when cleanup fails
functions/private/Invoke-WinUtilISO.ps1:578
When deletion is incomplete, this throw skips the state/UI reset, but the existing finally still sends the wizard from Working to Select. The retained work directory can then no longer be retried from the Start Over button because that button is on the disabled Output page. Keep the wizard on/return it to Output for this failure path so the user can retry cleanup while preserving Win11ISOWorkDir.
The new manager-switch path removes incompatible selections, but there is no automated test covering either the rendered-checkbox branch or the fallback branch for an unrendered selection. This behavior is central to the feature and mutates the install selection, so add focused tests that switch managers and verify the list and checkbox state are both updated.
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Adds background package-catalog search to the Install tab. Curated applications are filtered by the selected manager, and up to 15 additional matches appear under the collapsed Package Manager Results category. Switching managers refreshes the search and deselects incompatible selections.
Dynamic results use official catalog links and initials badges. Selected results survive later searches, while unmatched tiles are hidden. Session-only packages are excluded from configuration exports with a warning. Category filters, offline mode, and active jobs suppress dynamic search. WinGet searches target the community winget source.
Includes main through
48885d7cand the missing commits through PR #4906 head63d91501. This PR remains stacked on #4906; its rendering and service-maintenance changes are still included until that dependency merges. The integration retains the current job layer, session logging, and Install-tab initialization.Validation
./Compile.ps1: passed; generated script remains ignored.e5076f8a: manager-specific package-ID deduplication and searching all supported StackPanel entry controls. Seven added regressions pass; real-WPF combo-label and later radio-option checks pass. Codex and CodeRabbit CLI re-reviews raised no issues.Resolves #4997
Copilot follow-up validation
f227db66coalesces catalog searches to one active worker and the latest pending query, coordinates process-wide encoding with installed-package detection, and retries failed catalog requests without caching failures.Current-main integration
Merged main through
48885d7c, resolving the architecture documentation conflict by retaining the session log path, live UI status, and DISM discard behavior. Both independent local reviewers rechecked the integrated PR and agreed there are no actionable findings. A merge-scope CLI review flagged a possible mixed-class nested driver-export edge case in the ISO script; both reviewers confirmed this file is byte-identical to main and no real export reproduction was established, so it is an upstream follow-up rather than a change in this PR. Full Pester: 895 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped; compile, diff validation, real WPF/shared-runspace search checks, and cross-runspace encoding success/failure checks passed. Final local Codex review against current main found no actionable regression and independently reran the full suite successfully. CI passed on329d112b.Initial-render feedback
e9765e37reapplies package-manager filtering after every render batch, including empty searches. Categories hidden before asynchronous entries existed recover as entries arrive, incompatible entries stay hidden, and collapsed headers remain collapsed. Both independent local reviewers agreed clean, and the final local Codex review found no correctness issues. Compile, 55 focused tests, the full Pester suite (899 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped), and independent real-WPF checks for both managers and both header states passed.Screenshots