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We've had a couple of reports that when automated installer tools try to install PuTTY from its entry in the Windows Store, they aren't able to determine its version number.
One of the tools in question is "Intune", presumably this one. Intune reports a GUI error message reading "The selected app does not have a valid latest package version."
We've had a similar problem reported from "winget",
presumably this
one. A CLI command like "winget search putty" finds
our real Store entry (with id XPFNZKSKLBP7RJ), but
reports a version field of "Unknown", in a display looking something
like this (probably including other search hits too):
Name Id Version Match Source ------------------------------------------------------ PuTTY XPFNZKSKLBP7RJ Unknown msstore
We'd like to fix this, but we don't know how. When we fill in the web form that submits a new version of PuTTY into the Store, we haven't found any field of the form where you enter a version number. So if the Store knows the version numbers of some packages but not PuTTY, we don't know what we're supposed to do to fix that.
Therefore, I've classified this as "semi-bug", because it's not clear whether there's anything we can do to fix it (the problem might also be in the Store itself, or in the tools that access it), and also as "taxing" because it's not just a question of us doing work – we also need information we don't have.
SGT's best guess, based on skimming the source code of "winget" on Github, is that it might have something to do with PuTTY's Store entry being based on the MSI installer system, instead of MSIX (which is more standard for Store entries). In "winget" there's a piece of code that extracts a version number from a metadata field in a MSIX file, but no corresponding code for MSI. And MSI integration with the Store is newer than MSIX. So one possibility (as far as we know) is that version number detection just doesn't work for MSI apps.
But if anybody knows better, or can tell us what we have to do to make PuTTY's Store entry have useful version metadata, we'd like to hear from you!