[ENHANCEMENT] Only show or visualize major updates based on semver

[eikaramba]

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Describe the improvement

Currently all updates are shown. Lot of package managers however allow to only show major update or resp. show them visually different if the version is a minor or major upgrade.

e.g. show 6.0.1 -> 7.2.4 in red but 6.0.1 -> 6.2.1 in white.

Describe how this improvement could help users.

the reason behind this is that i have a lot of updates and don't necessarly want to update all of them esp. as some software already has updated itself via some internal auto updated. so i only want to get notified about major updates.

[eikaramba]

i found a similar issue i think ;) #1110

[eikaramba]

in order to "parse" the version one could either use semver libraries https://pypi.org/project/semver/ or have a look how this lib is doing it:
https://github.com/dylang/npm-check

[marticliment]

They are related, but not actually the same

[csoltenborn]

Actually, I would like to be able to configure the according behavior per package. Here's an example: On my machine, I have installed Python 2 for some reason. Now, WingetUI keeps suggesting to update this to Python 3, which is not an option for me. If I now would be able to tell WingetUI that for this package, I only want minor updates to be offered, then I would not have to ignore the Python package (which I have to do now because I don't want to accidentally upgrade to Python 3).

[lkurzyniec]

It would be nice to have two options to configure:

• semver pattern to show
• semver pattern to autoupgrade

[mrixner]

To hide minor updates from your updates list, which may be a workaround for a few of you, you can use the new "skip minor updates" installation option on a per-package installation options basis.

[jo-chemla]

The skip minor updates workaround is only available when expanding Full Installation option on a single package, not on a package selection - also, the Pause updates for xxx context menu alternative can only be specified per-package.

As a heavy user of winget and UnigetUI, I'm also in favor of that semver check for major/minor/patch updates. It could be useful

• either as a syntax highlighting, maybe in a dedicated column with color coded indicator (green/yellow/red for patch/minor/major for example)
• or a filter (for example next to view-mode or order-by), to only show eg major updates
• or a group by feature which would split the Software Updates view the same way eg windows file explorer groups files and folders by date, type, size etc