Hey, thanks for making an issue to help track this. Definitely something that needs fixing and I think I've seen a few other issues discussing getting this on winget, we should definitely make that possible. My bandwidth with other refactors has been a bit sparse to get to it.

Adding a few notes on what needs to happen to fix this:

What needs to happen here is plumbing the tag that the github actions workflow is running on into the .nsis script here.

I believe nsis variables are just env vars -- it may be as simple as fixing https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest/blob/main/scripts/generate-installers.sh#L3-L20 to pass through an env variable to the docker container e.g. VERSION= ...

I think the VERSION can be determined correctly in the github actions workflow by using ${{ github.ref_name }}" as the reference.

I recognized the same issue on Windows 11 at multiple locations, using backrest v1.6.1.
The issue can be reproduced only via installing backrest v1.6.1 to any Windows system.

Desktop Icons:

Startmenu Icons:

Finally! The issue is resolved for me.
Thanks!