winget list --upgrade-available cannot be sorted and PowerShell module does not support listing upgrades

[alimbada]

winget list --upgrade-available cannot be piped to sort so via a StackOverflow answer and a couple of other issues on this repo (here and here) I found myself installing the Powershell module.

However, the module does not seem to have a way of listing available upgrades. Get-WinGetPackage has -Query and -MatchOption options (shown when tabbing for autocompletion) which do not seem to be in the current source code (maybe they're inherited?). However, these options seem to only match on strings.

I attempted to do Get-WinGetPackage | where { -not ([string]::IsNullOrWhitespace($_.AvailableVersions)) } but I get 95 results (there are quite a few results where the Available field is empty yet the package still makes it through the filter) whereas winget list --upgrade-available lists 46 upgrades.

If there is another way to list available upgrades it's not obvious and should be better documented.

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.8.1911
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19045.4780
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0

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[alimbada]

The bot has indirectly answered my question but I'm not closing this as it needs better documentation.