Recent Releases

The most recent releases are listed below. For older versions, see the release archive.

Version 1.36.0 July 3, 2026

Release Date: July 3, 2026

Summary

This release expands custom app upload beyond MSI. You can now upload an EXE or a ZIP (an installer plus its supporting files), add an app icon, and pick Raw or PSADT packaging, all through a guided wizard. It also corrects install detection so that installing an app never upgrades a device that already has an older version outside a maintenance window.

New Features

Custom app upload now accepts .exe and .zip installers in addition to .msi. A ZIP is treated as an IntuneWin source folder: put the installer at the root, with any supporting files alongside it, and everything is packaged together. When a ZIP contains more than one installer at the root, the wizard prompts you to choose the primary one.
You can now add an app icon during upload, shown in Intune and the App Store catalog.
Custom uploads now offer the same Raw or PSADT packaging choice the App Catalog provides. PSADT (the default) wraps the installer for standardized logging, exit codes, and pre and post install hooks. For an EXE you supply the silent install switch, and for a raw EXE the silent uninstall command.
Detection rules now match the Intune experience. Choose a rules format: automatic Add/Remove Programs detection (the default), manually configured MSI, file, or registry rules, or a custom PowerShell detection script. This makes EXE uploads, and apps that don’t register cleanly in Add/Remove Programs, reliable to detect.

Product Enhancements

App Upload is now a step-by-step wizard that mirrors the Intune Add App experience: upload, choose the installer when needed, confirm the app information, set the program and packaging, review the detection rule, and publish. The wizard shows the install and uninstall commands before you publish, and the file is inspected automatically as soon as you select it.
Raw MSI installs, whether uploaded or published from the WinGet catalog, now write a verbose Windows Installer log to the Intune Management Extension Logs folder. Intune collects that folder automatically, so a failed install is easier to diagnose.
The App Catalog now shows real app icons without your admins’ browsers reaching out to a third party. Common apps ship with a curated icon in the daily catalog index; for other apps, the portal resolves the icon once on the server when the app is viewed and stores it in your own database, so every later view is served from your instance. Anything without an icon shows a colored letter tile. A new Settings option, Resolve catalog icons automatically, is on by default and can be turned off for environments that want the curated icons and letter tiles only.
Catalog cards are slimmer. The installer-type badge, Homepage link, and description were removed because that data was inconsistent from app to app and made the cards taller than needed. Cards now show the icon, name, publisher, package identifier, and version.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where installing an app could upgrade a device that already had an older version, outside a maintenance window. Detection for an install now checks only whether the app is present, at any version, so a routine install no longer upgrades a device that is running an older build. This applies to both uploaded apps and apps published from the WinGet catalog.

Version 1.35.0 July 2, 2026

Release Date: July 2, 2026

Summary

This release focuses on how App Store for Intune delivers and updates itself. In-place updates now install to a specific version on your schedule instead of moving to a new build unexpectedly, an optional Preview channel lets you validate early-access builds before they reach production, and custom app upload works reliably on the current platform.

Product Enhancements

The portal now updates to a specific version only when you choose to, and a routine restart no longer moves it to a newer build. Upgrades happen on your schedule.

New Features

Added an optional Preview release channel. Point a portal at Preview to try early-access builds before they reach the Latest channel, then switch back to Latest for production. Set this under Store Administration → Settings → Release Channel.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where uploading a custom MSI could fail, including large installers. The portal reads the installer to populate the app details and build an Add/Remove Programs based detection rule.
Resolved an issue where the selected release channel did not persist when settings were saved.
Resolved an issue where a new installation loaded an empty catalog until the first background sync completed.

Important Notes

[Action Required] Portals installed before version 1.35.0 check for updates from a release feed that has been retired, so Check for Updates will not offer this release. Moving an existing portal to 1.35.0 is a one-time manual step. Contact PowerStacks and we will walk you through the update for your environment.

Version 1.34.0 June 8, 2026

Release Date: June 8, 2026

App Store for Intune is now certified by Microsoft and available in Azure Marketplace. It runs entirely inside your own Azure tenant and gives users a self-service way to request applications while administrators stay in control of what gets deployed.

Highlights

Self-service requests. Users browse a catalog and request the apps they need. An administrator approves, and the app deploys through Intune.
A large catalog, plus your own apps. Search the full WinGet community catalog of more than 12,000 applications, or upload a custom MSI for anything that is not in it.
Hands-off packaging. Requested apps are wrapped with PSADT, converted to the .intunewin format, and deployed to Intune for you.
Approvals that fit your process. Route requests to admin or approver groups, with per-app control over who signs off.
Phased rollouts. Release updates in rings instead of to everyone at once.
Teams notifications. An optional Teams bot keeps requesters and approvers up to date.

Built for your tenant

Everything runs in your Azure subscription. Compute, data, and identity stay with you, and nothing is hosted by PowerStacks.
Deployment uses a single Entra ID app registration and a managed identity for Microsoft Graph access. There is no client secret to paste or store.

We are adding to it regularly, and new release notes will appear here as updates ship.