Pearcleaner

What's New

• Optimize maintenance tab commands to bypass brew and read directly from filesystem, should be instant now
• Highlight the bigger build numbers in Updater if short version is the same
• Add Stop scan button in Updater view toolbar
• Alter fallback version comparison in Sparkle Updater to catch some build number edge cases using lexicographical logic
• Output Updater log to debug window(CMD+D) when finished. Also still available via Help menu log file.

Fixes

• Fix regex matching for tap package versions
• Translations

What's New

• Add more Homebrew Auto Update schedule options (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) - #400 discussion
• Add SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable to shell Process() for all brew commands

Fixes

• Fix Settings Helper tab toolbar items not showing on initial load - #404
• Fix linked files buggy when files move/change - #407
• Fix sparkle version checking, stop checking version after the fact, trust sparkle
• Fix slow loading plugins list with large amount of plugins - #403
• Translations

What's New

• NEW: You can now select what page Pearcleaner opens on at launch in Settings > Interface tab - #410
• Flush bundle cache after homebrew cask update
• Load JWS API data on Homebrew view appear
• Ignore stale brew record version when app is updated to higher version than API externally
• To cut down on complexity, formulae from Updater view as it will be for serving GUI apps only. Homebrew view for CLI packages.
• Add smart thread chunking for app update checking based on CPU

Fixes

• Fix homebrew underscore versions only cleaned locally, missed the API version which caused showing updates as 1.2.3 > 1.2.3 incorrectly
• Fix unsupported category toggle should

What's New

• Add SUDO_ASKPASS prompt for homebrew auto update script to prompt user for password for privileged app updates
• Add leaves toggle in Formula category header on Installed tab (shows only formulae you installed directly, no dependencies)
• Use homebrew API jws file for Installed/Available packages information gathering
• Move FDA permission check outside of AF package to local scope to avoid race condition
• In Updater tab > Sidebar, added toggle to show/hide auto_updates apps. If app exists in Homebrew and Sparkle, only show Sparkle version unless auto_updates bool is on.
• Add debug lines to the log when updating a sparkle app in case it fails for some reason
• Show unsupported apps category in updater view, can hide it

What's New

• NEW: ✨ Sparkle apps can now be updated directly in Pearcleaner! Had to add Sparkle framework for this which increased app size by ~2.8MB 😔
• NEW: 🍺 Homebrew view now has a new Auto Update tab to allow scheduling update/upgrade/cleanup actions for brew
• 🍐 Show Pearcleaner update available in Updater view as well
• Add Sparkle appcast URL checks for apps that don’t expose the SUFeedURL in Info.plist. This should find some apps that Latest won't (Ex. Ghostty). This isn't a 100% sure mechanism as I have to look inside the app binary strings for the appcast URLs. Some apps(ex. ChatGPT) build the URLs at runtime and it's impossible to extract - #381
• New debugging command in Updater view to capture issues with false positives/negatives easier - A

What's New

• Adjust new sensitivity levels to work even better, caught a couple bugs - #393
• Add notification overlays for helper, permissions, updater, features alerts, can be turned off in settings > interface
• Add self-heal function to helper tool if desync occurs
• Fix settings open function not remembering last tab
• Translations

What's New

• Remove Ifrit Fuse package, replace with custom fuzzy search algorithm for app name filtering
• Remove SemanticVersion package, replace with Sparkle framework version checking logic
• Use greedy flag on outdated casks with auto_updates bool in Updater view
• Add formulae/CLI apps to Updater view
• Remove SwiftyJSON and use Foundation's JSON
• Fix unable to remove tap that has installed packages, use --force to bypass homebrew restriction
• Fix Settings Helper tab toolbar buttons not showing when launching straight into the tab
• Show “no results” text when filtering apps list via search and there's no valid options to show
• Optimize app refresh functions to await for Updater/Homebrew views

What's New

• Disable Settings window click to drag modifier and safe frame - #389
• Add debug file printing in menu bar Help for troubleshooting issues
• Related files search/orphans search algorithm optimizations
• Search files against bundle id company component in sensitivity levels higher than strict - #385
• Remove entitlement paths from file searching as it was too broad for certain apps - #386
• Fix padding on toolbar menu pickers in multiple views for Tahoe - #390
• Fix iOS apps not showing updates in Updater view - #381
• Add translation pruning option to manually select languages in app Files view > details sidebar > options - #389

What's New

• Refresh apps cache after homebrew cask modifications
• Add new details sidebar to Updater view to manage app update sources and hidden updates
• Differentiate between stable and pre-release updates in Updater view with the green pre-release icon
• More appcast.xml enhancements to capture more apps - #381
• Add new Options setting in FilesView sidebar to allow auto-opening sidebar when view loads - #383
• Development workspace cleaner adjustements to sizing/layout, include Zed
• Add Auto slim setting for Pearcleaner (Settings > General) to remove unneeded CPU architectures and translations, making bundle size 50% smaller for users who don't need those extras. When enabled, slimming function runs

What's New

• Grammar fixes - #378
• Add toggle for Sparkle pre-release builds - #379
• Add SemanticVersion check package for the Apps Updater logic - #379
• Fix App Store app versions with only 2 version components failing to be read - #379

What's New

• Quick follow-up, forgot to unhide the new Updater page in the dropdown list for the release build..oops
• Show number of outdated brew packages in statusbar under searchbar, reorder categories to show outdated at the top - #377
• Fix QOS issue on a function by detaching from parent Task
• Fix accessing StateObject on app load outside of a swiftui view

--- Previous Release ---

• BETA: New Updater view to handle App Store, Homebrew, Sparkle updates for installed apps. (Very very beta, Sparkle updater apps don't support in-app updating yet. I didn't have many apps needing updates to test all 3 sources with so very likely some bugs to be found!)
• Default development environments selector to All if not empty on v