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"Latest" version? #19171

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Some publishers use a static URL for their latest version. Is winget able to handle these links automatically?

wingetbot will update the application's manifest if there's actually a hash mismatch, but from what I can see, it doesn't seem like wingetbot checks all of the applications' manifests to see if the installers' hashes are valid or not. I had to manually install all 1300+ applications on a virtual machine and manually update the applications' manifests with a valid hash. For example: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AItzLevvie+%22Fix+Sha256%22+is%3Aclosed

Would it be improper to submit pull requests for these URLs with the package version as "Late…

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