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WinTUI v2.3.2 is a small patch release centered on a more AV-friendly self-upgrade path and a handful of polish fixes.

Highlights

  • Self-upgrade no longer drops an EXE into %TEMP%. v2.3.1 and earlier copied wintui.exe into %TEMP%\ and ran it detached/hidden to finish the upgrade, which triggered AV heuristics on some machines. The handoff now runs from a short-lived PowerShell script under %LOCALAPPDATA%\wintui\self-update\ that waits for the parent to exit, runs winget, and self-deletes. No dropped executable, fewer false positives.
  • Self-upgrade requires an already elevated WinTUI session. Non-admin sessions stop at the result modal and show Ctrl+A to relaunch as admin and retry. If Windows blocks or cancels the relaunch, the modal shows a manual administrator PowerShell command the user can run instead. After the handoff finishes, WinTUI no longer reopens itself automatically — start wintui again manually.
  • Atomic settings persistence. %APPDATA%\wintui\settings.json is now written via temp file + rename, matching the disk cache. A crash or power loss mid-save can no longer leave a partial JSON file.

Bug fixes

  • Settings → Default Source detail text claimed the setting affected "searches, installs, and upgrade queries". It doesn't affect upgrade queries — WinTUI deliberately omits --source on winget upgrade to preserve the Available column. Text corrected to "affects searches and installs".
  • docs/elevation.md opened with "three elevation paths" while listing four. Count corrected.

Internal

  • Dropped a couple of unused function parameters (formatBatchResults's outputs, viewConfirm's bg) and a vestigial _ = i in the winget table parser.

Notes

  • No breaking changes to settings, CLI flags, or keybindings from v2.3.1.
  • If you self-upgraded with v2.3.1 or earlier and still have a stale wintui_selfupdate_*.exe under %TEMP%, you can delete it manually — the new handoff path no longer creates that file.

Full release notes: docs/release-v2.3.2.md

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