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Cork 2.1.2 is out, and it only includes some legalities. These include the copyright change to RIKIDAR, d.o.o., plus the addition of some mandatory legal documents. The development of Cork doesn't change, it's just a legal requirement. Don't worry, there's nothing sinister happening In other news, the Cork website the license buying system enabled.

Additions Hebrew translation updated by Keren Bell Czech translation updated by me Fixes Full Disk Access request on start page not disappearing on Full Disk Access grant (#691) Adjustments None in this release

A few hours ago, I updated all Rikidar servers to the PHP version that fully fixes the CVEs.

After a month of intense work, the next version of Cork is ready! Additions Cork now supports discovering whether an app linked to a Cask is quarantined, and working with such apps [image: alt text] Cork checks, independently of Homebrew, whether a linked executable is quarantined If it discovers it is quarantined, it shows the warning above The main offered solution is to open the app, which is usually enough to remove the quarantine after you confirm that you want to launch the app. In this case, the warning disappears In case opening the app is not enough, there's an additional option, hidden under the caret, to force the removal of the app from quarantine. As this can be dangerous, there's a hefty warning [image: alt text] Cork is NOT responsible for what the app does after you force its removal from quarantine Full support for user-defined variables Cork now reads and prioritizes your user-defined ENV variables (fixes #685) A new section in Settings for inspecting the environment Cork is using [image: alt text] In this section, you can filter the following: Variables inherited from the user (whatever you defined outside of Homebrew) Variables inherited from the Cork process (things macOS adds to the process) Mandatory variables added from Cork itself (for making sudo operations work, and suppressing useless Homebrew warnings) Use the button at the bottom to preview the final environment, which opens a new dedicated window You can switch between table and text view, with text being the final string that Cork uses when executing Homebrew commands on your behalf [image: alt text] [image: alt text] The window supports searching for both the ENV keys, and their values Support for granting system permissions In the past, Cork wouldn't be able to update some pages because it was missing the Full disk access accessibility permission. No more. When Cork thinks it doesn't have the required permissions, it will show a dedicated warning under the Issues with Homebrew section on the Start Page [image: alt text] Clicking the button will show a sheet explaining what you need to do [image: alt text] What comes next is better than first-party apps at this point: all you need to do is drag the Cork icon into the table in System Settings, and restart. No fiddling around with dialogs: [image: alt text] There is a pleasant animation that makes it easy to see that Cork is draggable [image: alt text] Downgrading system for Cork, which is independent of Homebrew Accessible through the Menu Bar at Cork → Downgrade Cork Clicking Downgrade Cork opens a dedicated window for downgrading [image: alt text] You can right-click any of the listed versions to access that release's GitHub page [image: alt text] To download an older version, select it and click Download… After the download is done, Cork will show you the downloaded older release as a draggable icon [image: alt text] Drag the app wherever you'd like [image: alt text] Fixes Install process being stuck on downloading/installing dependencies; now, it properly shows which dependency is being installed [image: alt text] User ENV not being read & prioritized (#685) Onboarding is now split into more distinct pages to make it more readable [image: alt text] [image: alt text] New animation for switching between the states, as teased before: [image: alt text] The number of unmanaged updates no longer shows up as There are 0 additional packages not managed by Homebrew if you have that feature disabled, it is now hidden [image: alt text] The number of unmanaged updates is no longer added to the number of managed updates Adjustments Some old sheets that still had the old button placement now have the Apple-approved design Licensing: [image: alt text] [image: alt text] Onboarding: [image: alt text] Removed the unused SwiftNavigation library In other news, aside from being the only non-LLM-made GUI for Homebrew, Cork is now also the only one that complies with EU law. Let's go! Happy Corking! As always, no AI is used at any point in the development of Cork, and we stand by that with Cork’s strict no AI policy, which remains among one of the strictest in the space. Read the policy: https://corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/ Cork Community Follow Cork: Cork on Mastodon Cork on BlueSky Join the Community Cork on Discord See the Code Cork on GitHub Cork on Rikidar Code Cork on Codeberg Support me on Pantheon for upcoming exclusive content.

I got a report today about the download endpoints randomly serving the homepage without styling instead of downloading the selected version. There was a misconfiguration of a workflow for syncing the downloads across backup servers, and if the load balancer sent you to one of the broken replicas, you’d get the homepage (which itself is an anti-AI scraping measure). I fixed the misconfiguration, and now you always get the selected version, no matter which server the load balancer sends you to. Bug reports are always appreciated. If you see something, say something.

The onboarding workflow is getting pretty old, so I gave it a facelift. It's now paginated, includes a disclaimer that Cork is not affiliated with Homebrew, and has a cool screen-switching animation. Check it out: https://drive.tomoserver.eu/f/125eb02b155849f8aa07/

Since some operations (well, probably most of them) require Cork to manipulate data of other apps, it needs Full Disk Access permissions. Until now, if Cork didn't have these permissions, it would fail the operaiton and the system would sometimes, and sometimes not, prompt you to grant Cork these permissions. Coming in the next version is a built-in way to grant Cork these permissions. Check it out: https://drive.tomoserver.eu/f/a59536d1911c4913b07e/

Release 2.0.3 brings support for Goldern Gate, or macOS 27. [image: Cork on Golden Gate.png] It is otherwise identical to version 2.0.1 that came out a few days ago, with one exception: Additions None in this release. Fixes Double-clicking packages to open them is fixed. A merge conflict disabled that in 2.0.1 Adjustments None in this release. You may ask, what happened to version 2.0.2? That came out yesterday and was release 2.0.1 recompiled for Golden Gate. But a merge conflict overwrote double-click handling, so I fixed that quickly. Happy Corking! As always: there was absolutely NO AI used in the development of Cork, and we strongly reject AI in any capacity: https://corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

I just compiled version 2.0.1 on Golden Gate, with a few adjustments needed to resolve build errors. Hopefully just quirks of Xcode 27 still being a beta: [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-09-13 v 1.51.47.png] It will be ready on day one of Golden Gate's release, CEST (UTC+2) If you'd like to try it now, it's on the branch main.golden-gate Here's a solution to that build error: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork/issues/678 Why is there a build error? In short, it's because of the order of targets for compiling being incorrect. There's an image in the module CorkTerminalFunctions, and if that module is not compiled before the other modules, the compilation will fail (because it thinks there's that picture missing).

Not even a month after I released Cork 2.0.0, which was the most significant release in the history of Cork (and undoubtedly in the history of Homebrew GUIs that aren’t made by AI... ), a new version is already out. Additions Support for Homebrew warnings Homebrew warnings tell you about something going wrong with Homebrew itself. Because they’re technically errors, they would be incorrectly interpreted by Cork as the process that spawned them failing. They are not related to Cork in any way, they are Homebrew warnings, not Cork warnings. They have a dedicated section on Cork’s new Status Page, which itself received a major overhaul, since it was becoming very cluttered. You can expand the dropdown to see more information about them When removing a tap that fails due to a package being installed from it, it now tells you which packages are responsible If there’s more than one package, you can use the included “Open detail for (tap name)“ button to open the tap’s detail If there’s one package, you can also use the included “Open detail for (package name)“ button to additionally open that package’s detail You can now double-click a package to open its detail, instead of having to right-click → Open detail New Hebrew translation by Keren R. Bell Updated Simplified Chinese translation by CheeseCat Fixes Pinned packages can’t be removed anymore (following Homebrew standard). Before, the buton would be available, but you’d get an error, anyway. So now, those buttons are disabled Homebrew warnings no longer make it seem like the process that emitted them failed (see Additions section above) tap trust warnings incorrectly showing in the UI Adjustments Status Page is now divided into clear sections and cleaned up Each section has a relevant title Adoptable Apps section moved down and grouped with installed package overview Removed Homebrew Analytics status from the Status page, they’re still accassible from settings. Mind you, these are Homebrew’s analytics, not Cork’s. NO AI USED, EVER As always, no AI is used at any point in the development of Cork, and we stand by that with Cork’s strict no AI policy, which remains among one of the strictest in the space.

The grind never stops, so I'll be showing off the things coming to version 2.0.1 in this thread

I'm currently working on implementing the new tap trust system, and making it actually bearable to use: You will see an easy-to-understand list of your added Taps, clearly separated into a "trusted" and "untrusted" section, instead of them being a weird, cryptic wall of text like Homebrew shows them Trusting will happen using drag-and-dropping to make it feel macOS-native. In the video, I have to manually re-open the start page, but this feature is still early in development The entire implementation of this is completely custom, not connected to Homebrew in any way, but retains drop-in compatibility with the underlying Homebrew system. It is also almost 2x as fast (not shown in the video, since the UI doesn't update live yet) [image: Snimek_obrazovky_2026-08-29_v_1.20.15.png] Video of the current state of drag-and-dropping As a bonus, I have accidentally created a drag-and-drop way to back up individual taps, which I may expand to packages as well, and eventually, an entire independent backup system...

I'd like to hear your opinions on the new version - did it make Cork more useful? What do you think about the way it was developed, etc?

Following 6 months of development, the buggest update in Cork's history is now live. Additions Every real-time command has an option to display the raw Homebrew output of the running command #196 Better package UX: Any package can now be previewed from anywhere inside Cork, not just in select places Consequently, now you can preview even installed packages, so you can see the details for more than one package at a time. This still has some quirks [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.18.20.png] Any installed package an have its detail opened from anywhere inside Cork Consequently, if you have Package filtering set to Show only manually installed packages, you can access the hidden dependency by right-clicking it in the Dependencies list, and opening its detail through the context menu action [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.17.19.png] The way to preview packages has been unified everywhere to be a right-click, context menu action instead of sometimes being its own dedicated button (like was the case in the package installation dialog) New first-party Homebrew tap management: Uses Speakeasy by Graham Hall to further decouple Cork from Homebrew Currently supports two first-party Homebrew taps: homebrew/core and homebrew/cask Loading of tap details is now almost three times as fast Taps that use Speakeasy have a special badge [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.06.30.png] New screens for processes that included unexpected outputs For example, package installation: [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 13.46.38.png] Differentiates between likely successful processes (those that didn't include errors), and likely failed processes (those that did include errors) Every process supports these Much better UI for the Maintenance results report [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 13.38.44.png] Unsuccessful partial package updates now list every failed package, and the reason why it failed. In this case, the reasons are too long to be displayed, and can be accessed by the i button [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.12.44.png] Real-time outputs now include a timestamp [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 13.44.55.png] Every package with a bound version (for example, python@3.14) now consistently displays everywhere with a custom lock icon, instead of random places still showing it as python@3.14 [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.21.33.png] Progress bars now follow build-in macOS text conventions, with main text on top of the bar, with supplementary text under [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.12.01.png] All sheets now follow the macOS sheet titling convention by having a title separated by a divider [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.11.38.png] You can now open installed Casks through their Detail page by right-clicking on the Installed as icon [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.35.01.png] Fixes Migrated packages preventing package loading #613 Updates on startup failing with a cryptic JSON message #625 [image: 2026-08-22_18-36-34.png] Some harmless outputs being incorrectly identified as errors Decreased RAM usage by up to 12% Fixed almost all stuttering caused by package reloading All progress bars have been replaced to fix the various inconsistent behaviors and incorrect progress reporting #331, #329 Some non-streaming commands randomly not returning any output, for example the information loader for the php package and the majority of third-party taps #622 brew doctor not reporting results correctly #538, #397 Updating process showed "errors" in results even though no errors occurred #541, #595 Modifying services (turning them on and off) didn't reflect in the UI and the service had to be closed and re-opened For users that didn’t have the “SF Symbols“ app installed, icons that were parts of other strings are now displayed as the actual icons, instead of question marks inside boxes Loading of some tap details didn't work Switching from a Cask detail to a Formula detail would show the executable for the last opened Cask as the executable for the currently-opened Formula #655 Quickly switching between package details would not load the package detail, and a restart would be required Fixed flashing text of some sheets when opening Text in other languages that is not translated yet now falls back to English, instead of shoring the raw key (like sheet.title) Pinned packages can no longer be updated by right-clicking on them Adjustments New Terminal output matcher that is generic, much more robust, and easier to extend and modify Support for reporting unimplemented and unexpected outputs, giving you an overview of what exactly the various workflows did instead of silently failing, or reporting the wrong results Faster matching all across the board With the new Terminal output matcher, the whole backend was rewritten from scratch, including: Package installation #599 Tap management #598 Updating, both complete and incremental #608 #607 A list of packages in a tap now shows the first few packages, and a complete list can be opened in a new window Searching in the list in the main Cork window still searches through all packages [image: image-2.jpg] New icon for “Preview“ & “Open detail“ [image: image.jpg] Increased padding around outlined views for better readability [image: image-1.jpg] Custom Tap Hosts can now be specified directly in the tap addition dialog, instead of the process first having to fail to offer the option [image: image-3.jpg] New icon for Casks to make it easier to distinguish at smaller sizes (for an upcoming feature in another release…) [image: 21d2b159-d069-4d84-a7ca-b115fb312f02_1170x124.png] Unified subtitle look for outdated and adoptable package sections on the Start Page [image: image-4 1.jpg] The exclamation mark for marking errors in outputs now on the top right of the output line [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 13.44.55.png] Select downloading stages include a non-determinate progress bar to make it not seem like long downloads were stuck [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 13.49.07.png] New color for the Already installed tag [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.05.25.png] Dependants are now a fully-fledged dropdown [image: Snímek obrazovky 2026-08-22 v 18.19.48.png] …and probably many more changes, fixes and adjustments I can't remember

Additional fixes: On phones, the "Buy Cork" modal now correctly scrolls, the business license disclaimer is visible properly, and the margins are looking better Minor rewording of the checkbox to make it easier to understand

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