Pearcleaner

What's New

• Console is now available app-wide and will persist logs between actions. Also added a copy button.
• Grab adamID from metadata if exists for MAS apps
• Make Finder extension use a unique bundle id to try and prevent some issues caused by updating via homebrew
• Add deep sensitivity level toggle in settings for searching inside text file content, off by default (will find a lot of files)

Fixes

• Fix formulae to work with revision versions
• Fix App Store API lookup for wrapped/non-wrapped apps
• Fix veracrypt, google-drive casks
• Fix updating pinned formulae - #457
• Fix App Store release notes not respecting new lines
• Fix NSIm

What's New

• Console button in Homebrew toolbar to show brew actions output in a bottom console view
• Add Stop button in Homebrew toolbar for certain brew actions
• Add receipt import into MAS app install process for affected macOS systems where installd is blocked
• Move brew install/update/uninstall actions to homebrew commands fully
• Add askpass credential expiry selector in settings > general (Related to item above this, when brew needs sudo permissions a popup will come up asking to input password and it will cache it securely in Keychain for as long as you have the cache setting set to.)
• Add path validation logic in UndoManager to prevent altering system paths, dropping empty paths and non-standard URLs
• Move e

What's New

• Add manual install workaround for app store bug in 26.1+ (Apple has blocked the private frameworks for MAS from being able to perform the install portion of the Update without private Apple entitlements. I haven't had a chance to do a ton of QA on this workaround, so there could be some bugs. You can follow a more detailed discussion in the mas repo as well - mas-cli/mas#1029)
• Include Date Added resource key for sorting and app sidebar metadata - #432

Fixes

• Fix Deep search level with app that returns thousands of results - #440
• Fix folder exclusion logic for apps - #433
• Fix orphan search not finding results via username exclusion bug
• Fix sens

What's New

• Show App Store progress bar during updates - #430
• Add App Store region fallback when checking for updates
• Replace sparkle version check with custom implementation that checks both build and shortVersion strings, not just build
• Ignore SetApp sparkle apps as the signatures don't match the dev since SetApp signs them - #428
• Disable homebrew api call caching on network requests
• Allow adding apps to Updater ignore list from sidebar even if no update is available
• Add homebrew debug lines during loading/install/update/uninstall actions

Fixes

• Fix packages with 0 size from mismatched cellar version folder with revision number

What's New

• Add app search exclusion toggle in Settings > Folders. This allows to exclude a folder/file/keyword during file searches - #422
• Add package size sorting to Homebrew installed list - #414
• Add pip packages view to Developer/Pip environment - #414

Fixes

• Fix Updater view refresh button showing blank page
• Fix Updater view update count not ignoring unsupported category
• Fix Finder extension launching in incorrect startup view when not set to Applications - #421

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