Cork 2.1.0 Out: Quarantine support, user ENV, independent downgrading

[rikidar-david]

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
  

  • 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
    
  • 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
    
    • 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
      
      
    • 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
    
  • Clicking the button will show a sheet explaining what you need to do
    
  • 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:
    
  • There is a pleasant animation that makes it easy to see that Cork is draggable
    

• 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
    
  • You can right-click any of the listed versions to access that release's GitHub page
    
  • 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
    
  • Drag the app wherever you'd like
    

Fixes

• Install process being stuck on downloading/installing dependencies; now, it properly shows which dependency is being installed
  
• User ENV not being read & prioritized (#685)
• Onboarding is now split into more distinct pages to make it more readable
  
  
  • New animation for switching between the states, as teased before:
    
• 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
  
• 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:
    
    
  • Onboarding:
    
• 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!

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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/

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