mas-cli

• 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 Spotligh

• 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

• Many install/update/outdated improvements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• Improve version comparison logic for outdated & update by @rgoldberg in #1155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
• F

• 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 @rgol

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
  • this includes commands that previously worked properly only if called with a non-root effective user (i.e. not called via sudo)

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Omnibus: sudo from Swift, non-expiring sudo credentials, macos-15-intel GHA runners, docu

Workaround installd/PackageKit restriction (#1029) via a methodology found by @alienator88.

The workaround requires root privileges for get/purchase, install, lucky & update/upgrade.

Automatically requests root privileges via running sudo in an executable shell wrapper around mas.

Root privileges may also be supplied by running sudo mas … on your command line.

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Executable zsh wrapper around executable binary that uses sudo when appropriate by @rgoldberg in #1086

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Workaround installd/PackageKit access restriction introd

• outdated & update now default to using the inaccurate but faster pre-3.0.0 outdated app detection logic
• outdated & update now have --accurate & --accurate-ignore-unknown-apps flags to use the accurate but slower outdated app detection logic first released in 3.0.0
  • The accurate logic can result in dialog boxes being opened for apps whose installers cannot be downloaded, because either:
    • The app was installed for a different Apple Account than the current one
    • The installer is no longer available from the App Store
      • --accurate-ignore-unknown-apps skips all apps that are unknown to the App Store
      • --accurate exists because some apps are unknown to the

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ignore TestFlight apps in outdated & upgrade by @rgoldberg in #1056

Changes

• Create a hard link instead of a symlink when creating pkg installers by @rgoldberg in #1051
• Rename searcher & search result types & variables by @rgoldberg in #1055
• Update git version comment to 2.52.0 by @rgoldberg in #1059

Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v3.0.1