AdiIRC

What is the significance of this? I don't know anything about how winget works.

Should also clarify that I did not add AdiIRC to winget.

I thought you were aware about winget and that AdiIRC has been included in its community repo..

Anyway, I found that AdiIRC was added in the community repo 9 days ago via this pull request: New package: PerAmundsen.AdiIRC version 4.1 #40772 (I believe its author should inform you about it)

Windows Package Manager (winget) is a package manager by Microsoft. It's a command line tool.
The program is distributed with 'App Installer', which you can install either from the Microsoft Store page or from the project's GitHub repo .
With this tool the user can search for packages(programs) of interest, install/uninstall and check for and/or upgrade packages, all from CLI.
winget upgrade shows available package updates, winget upgrade -all the user can upgrade all programs with updates at once, or with winget upgrade PACKAGENAME to upgrade only the specified package.

Closing, for reference, in my case winget upgrade shows:

Okay, being on winget is fine, I don't care about that.

But I want to understand what's the significance of the version number in "Add/Remove programs" and whether it being wrong causes problems with winget?

E.g is this just about how the version is displayed in "Add/Remove programs" or is there an actual problem?

In Winget upgrade's output, the 'Version' column reflects the version number in "Add/Remove programs" (ARP), and the 'Available' column shows any new package versions that may exist according to the community repo data.
In my case AdiIRC is shown in winget as 3.9 (ARP version), which is that of my initial install via the installer. But, by using the built-in updater it has currently become 4.2 (beta). Alternatively, if I used the stable version instead, it would be 4.1.

Currently, winget "wrongly" shows to me that a new AdiIRC version is available (4.1) . What I want is, since my AdiIRC version is 4.2, winget not to show it as outdated. This can only be achieved by bumping the ARP version on each update (fo reference, see e.g. this or this comment in the winget repo to confirm that winget retrieves package versions from ARP).

Thanks for your quick response.
I just updated my beta installation to today's beta (2022/11/28) and unfortunately the version number in "Add/Remove programs" remained the same, 3.9
and winget upgrade still reports it as outdated:

Yeah it wont work until the next update since all the code for doing it is in the new beta.

Thanks a lot for clarifying.

With todays beta I confirmed in action that it's fixed. Thanks a lot!

Excellent.