Pckgr Update History

Descriptions of updates to the software

March 26, 2024 Added new prompts to capture notification emails.

February 8, 2024 Released Advanced Application Deployment for all packages.

January 15, 2024 Updated all application packages to use PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit

November 21, 2023 Removed fuzzy search from the application library to improve search performance.

October 11, 2023 Fixed bug where Update Only for "user" context apps was failing to run. This fix can be applied by redeploying the application

September 25, 2023 Fixed bug where app version was not showing on first deployment. This did not impact updates or redeployment.

August 31, 2023 Improved the updating functionality which now notified on failure and allows the customer to retry the update.

Added a redeploy button (beta) which allows a customer to fully redeploy the application while copying over any group assignments. This is beneficial for starting fresh if an app is displaying errors or if the Pckgr team have upgraded the install and uninstall scripts.

August 22, 2023 Resolved issues with Conditional Access blocking access to TenantID.

August 9, 2023 Created PckgrBot to automate packaging Winget applications and create new PR's to assist with keeping applications up to date.

June 19, 2023 Added the ability for users to manually remove their account.

May 4, 2023 Fixed issue with logs not showing up for all users in the team, currently only the user that deployed the app was able to view the log.

April 24, 2023 Reworked the current deployment system to improve overall performance of deployments from Pckgr to Intune. An issue was discovered that if a user was leaving an application as "Awaiting Deployment" for too long that newer versions were being released meaning when the user was finally around to deploying it would be an old version.

Fixed issue where apps could not be deleted when stuck in a deployment state. You will now be able to remove an application if the deployment process has taken longer than 10 minutes.

April 20, 2023 Resolved issue with Winget Pre-Install where the application name had a "trailing space" after the name. This was reported as causing some issues with Azure Devops. The fix has been deployed out to all currently active Winget Pre-Install deployments.

April 6, 2023 Resolved updating issue with Splashtop Business.

April 4, 2023 Changed the apps section for Free tier to show all applications. Many customers reported it as an issue that they were unable to view all apps. Premium apps will be visible but greyed out from deployment.

April 4, 2023 Changed Package request notification to advised customer if app has been packaged that it's not yet available and is in testing. This was previously just stating that app was ready and causing confusion.

April 3, 2023 Fixed Google Chrome Logo

Mar 28, 2023 Resolved issue with deploying applications when multiple versions of Winget were installed on the device. To resolve this issue the application must be deleted and redeployed.

Mar 23, 2023 Resolved issue with Microsoft SSO where it was looking at the mail attribute and not UPN. This was causing some accounts with mismatching UPN and mail attribute to fail.

Mar 21, 2023 Updated application Logo's to improve quality, to apply new images you can redeploy the application from Pckgr.

Mar 18, 2023 Fixed custom install string issue where double quotes was causing issue with the JSON. Custom string will now accommodate for any double quotes.

Mar 15, 2023 Added a bug report feature on the dashboard Resolved issue with Slack not upgrading successfully

Mar 15, 2023 Added ability to deploy custom install strings to deployments Fixed issue with deploying manual updates (was not attaching org to new applications causing it to fail)

Mar 10, 2023 Free tier can now deploy using the auto update feature.

Mar 8, 2023 Updated app page to show when an application was last updated to a new version.

Mar 7, 2023 Removed Winget.Run verification from request app function as it was continually causing issues for end users.

Feb 28, 2023 Added logging to install scripts, this will assist Pckgr technicians with investigating any install issues. Logs are available to the end user at C:\ProgramData\Pckgr.

Feb 22, 2023 Investigated and found resolution to issue involving some applications which would fail if an application with similar Winget ID was installed on the device. i.e Zoom.Zoom and Zoom.ZoomRooms

Dec 1, 2022 Dependencies updated so that devices are less likely to fail install. Nov 22, 2022 Implemented Microsoft SSO

Nov 12, 2022 Moved the application Repo data to the internal Database, this has allowed the application popup to load mch faster and changes to the metadata are updated without refreshing the page. This was implemented as we found users were able to make deployments of applications on a previous version because the page was not being refreshed for long periods of time.

Nov 11, 2022 There is a known issue where windows 10 devices may potentially be missing the module to install applications hosted on Pckgr. A solution is being worked out for a way to add a script to ensure this doesn't continue to occur.

Oct 27, 2022 Fixed a bug where users were unable to click deploy for some apps which have already been deployed to another company.

Oct 26, 2022 Resolved an issue for apps which auto-update prior to the Winget package becoming available.

Oct 24, 2022: -Adding a company will now display the company created instead of no company at all.

Oct 19, 2022: -Fixed a bug pertaining to a sequence of connection for a company to Microsoft Intune. -Implemented a re-redeploy function for apps that fail their upload to Intune .

Oct 15, 2022: -Bug fix for some users experiencing their tenant not being recognised and preventing them from deploying applications.

Oct 13, 2022: -Re-opened Pckgr to the public after being shut down for new feature upgrades. Features Include multi tenant access, application cloning for other tenants and other minor improvements.