What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix --no-check-min-os for inaccurate outdated app detection by @rgoldberg in #1214

Full Changelog: v6.0.0...v6.0.1

Added --check-min-os & --no-check-min-os to outdated & update (--check-min-os is the default), which enable/disable (respectively) checking that the running macOS is new enough to install the newest version of the given app.

Removed --accurate-ignore-unknown-apps. This is a break change, hence the new major version.

--check-min-os ignores unknown apps, so --accurate by itself (or with --check-min-os) behaves like --accurate-ignore-unknown-apps, though it also ignores apps whose newest version requires a newer macOS.

--accurate --no-check-min-os behaves like pre-6.0.0 --accurate, as it neither ignores unknown apps nor checks the minimum macOS version.

--no-check-min-os is useful for the rare cases:

1. when the newest version of the given app requires a newer macOS than is running on your Mac, but another version exists (that is newer than your current version, but older than the newest version) that can install on your macOS
2. when the iTunes Search web API doesn't know about an app in the App Store (might not ever occur, but is theoretically possible)

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improve performance of unindexed app detection for nonstandard apps by @rgoldberg in #1210
• Ignore empty receipts when searching for unindexed apps by @rgoldberg in #1211
• Fix minimum OS version check by @rgoldberg in #1212

Full Changelog: v5.2.0...v6.0.0

• Support Apple Arcade apps (and anything else that has "MacDesktop-MacDesktop" amongst its supported devices)
• Parallelize some code

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Parallelize async code without side effects that cannot be out of order by @rgoldberg in #1203

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Support MacDesktop-MacDesktop apps by @rgoldberg in #1199
• Get minimumOSVersion for MacDesktop-MacDesktop apps from App Store page for search by @rgoldberg in #1201

Full Changelog: v5.1.0...v5.2.0

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Add --all to uninstall by @rgoldberg in #1178
• Output path to deployed app by @rgoldberg in #1184
• Warn if potentially undesired app folder modified by @rgoldberg in #1190

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Create temp folders for pkg installer & receipt hard links on same volume as original files by @rgoldberg in #1187
• Create receipt & ancestor folders with correct owner, group & permissions by @rgoldberg in #1192
• Index in Spotlight folders that should contain App Store apps but that aren't indexed as such in Spotlight by @rgoldberg in #1194

Changes

• Fix SwiftFormat file header copyright year issue by @rgoldberg in #1180
• Output error when uninstall --all <app-id>… or uninstall without args by @rgoldberg in #1189
• Build with Xcode 26.2 on macos-15 & macos-15-intel GHA runners & more by @rgoldberg in #1195

Full Changelog: v5.0.2...v5.1.0

• Ignore trailing 0 version components in inaccurate version comparison (thanks, @WarningImHack3r)

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Fix additional trailing zeros being counted as version upgrade by @WarningImHack3r in #1175

New Contributors

• @WarningImHack3r made their first contribution in #1175

Full Changelog: v5.0.1...v5.0.2

• Fix macOS 14 build

What's Changed

Changes

• Fix macOS 14 build & test in GitHub by @rgoldberg in #1174

Full Changelog: v5.0.0...v5.0.1

• Fix an install/update deadlock for long installer logs
• Remove vestigial account, region & signin
• Require macOS 13+ to run mas
• Use Swift 6.2

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improve build-time Swift & Swift driver version parsing to be more universal by @rgoldberg in #1163
• Fix installer output parsing deadlock by @rgoldberg in #1166

Changes

• Increase minimum macOS version to 13 Ventura by @rgoldberg in #1164
• Use Swift 6.2 by @rgoldberg in #1165
• Remove account, region & signin by @rgoldberg in #1167
• Improve regex usage & unsafe usage by @rgoldberg in #1169
• Remove unnecessary MAS. & mas. by @rgoldberg in #1172

Full Changelog: v4.1.2...v5.0.0

• Many install/update/outdated improvements
• Many build improvements
• Minor cleanup

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Deduplicate ADAM IDs for install/update by @rgoldberg in #1147

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ensure that notices about downloading phase always output by @rgoldberg in #1152
• Build using the latest available Xcode by @rgoldberg in #1154
• Improve version comparison logic for outdated & update by @rgoldberg in #1155
• Warn users to switch to a mas distribution that is built using Swift 6.2+ by @rgoldberg in #1156
• Fix pkg installer selection algorithm by @rgoldberg in #1158
• Choose shortest (instead of first) bundle URL from installer stderr as app folder by @rgoldberg in #1161

Changes

• Improve download output by @rgoldberg in #1141
• Replace protocols with composition by @rgoldberg in #1143
• Trash uninstalled app folders via FileManager instead of via Finder by @rgoldberg in #1150

Full Changelog: v4.1.1...v4.1.2

• get, install, lucky, & update: numerous fixes including:
  • Properly updating App Store upon app installation/upgrade
  • Improved concurrency
  • Replace existing app receipt
• App Store & macOS regions: for each macOS region without an App Store, map to a default App Store specific to that region
• config: binary slice architecture detection
• Avoid a JSON parsing error
• arm64 pkg installer no longer require Rosetta to be installed
• Standardized error output formatting
• Cleanup

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Include mas binary slice architectures & Mac CPU architecture in config output by @rgoldberg in #1119

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Map each macOS region that does not have an App Store to a region that does have an App Store by @rgoldberg in #1118
• Improve concurrency by @rgoldberg in #1120
• json parsing by @rgoldberg in #1121
• Register installed / updated apps with Launch Services to fix incorrect App Store app page button states by @rgoldberg in #1122
• Improve app install/update output by @rgoldberg in #1124
• Delete existing receipt during update by @rgoldberg in #1125
• No longer require Rosetta for arm64 pkg installer by @rgoldberg in #1126
• Fix accurate outdated app detection by @rgoldberg in #1130

Changes

• Make Error: prefix red & underlined for argument-parsing errors by @rgoldberg in #1101
• Cleanup by @rgoldberg in #1117
• Rename config from as dist, etc. by @rgoldberg in #1129
• Conform multiple types to Sendable by @rgoldberg in #1132
• Update Swift Argument Parser to 1.7.0 by @rgoldberg in #1135
• Update Package.resolved by @rgoldberg in #1137
• Improve config slices output by @rgoldberg in #1139

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.1.1

Root privilege usage has been overhauled. mas now:

• requires root privileges only when absolutely necessary
• requests root privileges if they have not yet been granted
• allows root privileges granted during a call to mas to remain valid pursuant to the user's sudo credential timeout setting
• calls sudo from the executable mas binary, obviating the need for the now-removed zsh wrapper
• allows all commands to work properly if they are called with a root effective user
  • some commands previously worked properly only if called with a non-root effective user (i.e. were not called via sudo)

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Omnibus: sudo from Swift, non-expiring sudo credentials, macos-15-intel GHA runners, documentation, massive cleanup by @rgoldberg in #1098

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0