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This is the official release of Munki 6.6.3: a bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

Fixes

• A fix for an issue with aggressive notifications if Managed Software Center is open and the user is working full-screen in another application. Thanks to @BrandonNolet for the report (#1229) and thanks to @tburgin for the fix: d130308
• A fix for an issue when expanding a package to look for product icons when the package contains an Apple Archive-formatted payload instead of a pax/cpio archive. 85e82c6

A complete list of changes from the 6.6.2 release is here: v6.6.2...v6.6.3

Known issues

Downgrading from 6.6.x to 6.4.2 or earlier

If you ins

This is the official release of Munki 6.6.2: a a bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

Fixes

• A fix for an issue with MunkiStatus at the loginwindow where the new blurred backdrop windows would hide the log window and any other utility windows that might be displayed at the loginwindow. 2d34cbe
• When processing optional_installs, correctly record installed_size if available instead of just duplicating installer_item_size. 93b2640

A complete list of changes from the 6.6.1 release is here: v6.6.1...v6.6.2

Known issues

Downgrading from 6.6.x to 6.4.2 or earlier

If you install a version of the Munki tools that contains the Python 3.12 framework, and then later attempt to do

This is the official release of Munki 6.6.1: a a bug-fix and minor enhancement release of the Munki tools.

Bug fixes

• Address an issue that could cause the main updates window to not be displayed during an "aggressive notification", leaving all displays "blurred" but no window to interact with: 17d50aa
• Address an issue where the Software Updates pane was not visible for ten seconds after clicking "Update now" when an "aggressive notification" had occurred (the window opened behind the blur windows, and these windows remained in place for ten seconds): f36fceb

Enhancements

• New --show-config-plist option for managedsoftwareupdate that outputs the current configuration as an XML pli

This is a beta release of Munki 6.6: a feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• When presenting "Aggressive Notifications" (https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/aggressive-update-notifications-in-munki-5) , Managed Software Center will now use a full-screen blur effect behind the Updates window to encourage user interaction with the app. Previously, it "dimmed", or "greyed out" everything behind the app window, which might have been too subtle an indication that the user should pay attention to Managed Software Center. Thanks to Bart Reardon for much of the relevent code, borrowed from Swift Dialog. e6de68c

• At the loginwindow, MunkiStatus will also use a

This is the official release of Munki 6.5.1: a bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• A fix for a bug that prevented the new application data in conditional expressions feature from actually working as intended. (fbe22d2)
  See Conditional Application Data for more info on this feature, introduced (but due to the bug, effectively non-functional) in Munki 6.5: (bf1ce5a)
  Thanks to Tyler Gunderson for the bug report.

A complete list of changes from the 6.5.0 release is here: v6.5.0...v6.5.1

Known issues

Downgrading from 6.5.x to 6.4.2 or earlier

If you install a version of the Munki tools that contains the Python 3.12 framework, and then later attempt to d

This is a beta release of Munki 6.5.0: a new feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• Python changes (9e541a8)
  • Munki's included Python is now version 3.12.2
  • Certain added components have new versions:
    • cffi==1.16.0 (was 1.15.1)
    • pyobj-*==10.1 (was 9.1.1)
    • xattr==1.1.0 (was 0.10.1)
  • The imp module is no longer available in Python 3.12; this affected the import of middleware and repo plugins. The code has been updated to use importlib.util instead. (1850dbe)
• Managed Software Center: a new progress spinner appears in the sidebar next to the "Updates" label whe

This is a beta release of Munki 6.5.0: a new feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• Python changes (9e541a8)
  • Munki's included Python is now version 3.12.2
  • Certain added components have new versions:
    • cffi==1.16.0 (was 1.15.1)
    • pyobj-*==10.1 (was 9.1.1)
    • xattr==1.1.0 (was 0.10.1)
  • The imp module is no longer available in Python 3.12; this affected the import of middleware and repo plugins. The code has been updated to use importlib.util instead. (1850dbe)
• Managed Software Center: a new progress spinner appears in the sidebar next to the "Updates" label whe

This is a beta release of Munki 6.5.0: a new feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• Python changes
  • Munki's included Python is now version 3.12.2
  • Certain added components have new versions:
    • cffi==1.16.0 (was 1.15.1)
    • pyobj-*==10.1 (was 9.1.1)
    • xattr==1.1.0 (was 0.10.1)
  • The imp module is no longer available in Python 3.12; this affected the import of middleware and repo plugins. The code has been updated to use importlib.util instead.
• Managed Software Center: a new progress spinner appears in the sidebar next to the "Updates" label when an update is in progress.
• Source code: copyright date

This is the official release of Munki 6.4.2: a bug-fix and minor feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• New IgnoreMiddleware preference to ignore middleware by @patgmac in #1194. Useful if you are transitioning to/away from using middleware: you can turn it off (and possibly back on) without having to uninstall/reinstall the actual middleware.

Fixes

• The new board-id and device-id conditional facts introduced in Munki 6.4 have been renamed board_id and device_id, respectively. It turns out the previous names are illegal in NSPredicate expressions and caused a client run to be terminated unexpectedly if used in conditional_items or installable_condition. Thanks

This is the official release of Munki 6.4.1: a bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

Fixes

• Placement and appearance of the "back button" (which allows you to navigate back to the previous page in certain Managed Software Center views) has been tweaked to behave more like current macOS control behavior for tool bar items. (See #1195 for discussion)
• Fix addressing #1083 -- Managed Software Center should no longer get stuck in a check loop, but rather stop and display an error when it cannot successfully retrieve the primary manifest.

A complete list of changes from the 6.4.0 release is here: v6.4.0...v6.4.1

Build info

The GUI apps and the Python framework were built under Xcode 15.1 on macOS 14.2.1. Xcode 14.3.1

This is a beta release of Munki 6.4.0: a feature and bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• 7dd42af - Some tweaks to "Aggressive Notification" behavior. Specifically, in earlier versions of Munki, Managed Software Center could display an "Aggressive Notification", but then if a background/periodic run of Munki happened while the "Aggressive Notification" was displayed, Managed Software Center would switch back into "non-aggressive" mode. This increased the likelihood that a user would not see the aggressive notification.
  In Munki 6.4.0, the "Aggressive Notification" mode is maintained while Munki is doing a background check. If after the check is complete, the Aggressive mode no longer applies, Managed Soft