• 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 Spotlight by @rgoldberg in #1194

Changes

• Fix SwiftFormat file header copyright year issue by @rgoldberg in #1180
• Output error when uninstall --all <app-id>… or uninstall without args by @rgoldberg in #1189
• Build with Xcode 26.2 on macos-15 & macos-15-intel GHA runners & more by @rgoldberg in #1195

Full Changelog: v5.0.2...v5.1.0

• 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 & signin by @rgoldberg in #1167
• Improve regex usage & unsafe usage by @rgoldberg in #1169
• Remove unnecessary MAS. & mas. by @rgoldberg in #1172

Full Changelog: v4.1.2...v5.0.0

• Many install/update/outdated improvements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• Improve version comparison logic for outdated & update by @rgoldberg in #1155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
• Fix pkg installer selection algorithm by @rgoldberg in #1158
• Choose shortest (instead of first) bundle URL from installer stderr as app folder by @rgoldberg in #1161

Changes

• Improve download output by @rgoldberg in #1141
• Replace protocols with composition by @rgoldberg in #1143
• Trash uninstalled app folders via FileManager instead of via Finder by @rgoldberg in #1150

Full Changelog: v4.1.1...v4.1.2

• 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 @rgoldberg in #1119

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Map each macOS region that does not have an App Store to a region that does have an App Store by @rgoldberg in #1118
• Improve concurrency by @rgoldberg in #1120
• json parsing by @rgoldberg in #1121
• Register installed / updated apps with Launch Services to fix incorrect App Store app page button states by @rgoldberg in #1122
• Improve app install/update output by @rgoldberg in #1124
• Delete existing receipt during update by @rgoldberg in #1125
• No longer require Rosetta for arm64 pkg installer by @rgoldberg in #1126
• Fix accurate outdated app detection by @rgoldberg in #1130

Changes

• Make Error: prefix red & underlined for argument-parsing errors by @rgoldberg in #1101
• Cleanup by @rgoldberg in #1117
• Rename config from as dist, etc. by @rgoldberg in #1129
• Conform multiple types to Sendable by @rgoldberg in #1132
• Update Swift Argument Parser to 1.7.0 by @rgoldberg in #1135
• Update Package.resolved by @rgoldberg in #1137
• Improve config slices output by @rgoldberg in #1139

Full Changelog: v4.1.0...v4.1.1

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

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Omnibus: sudo from Swift, non-expiring sudo credentials, macos-15-intel GHA runners, documentation, massive cleanup by @rgoldberg in #1098

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v4.1.0

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 introduced in macOS 26.1, 15.7.2 & 14.8.2 by @rgoldberg in #1041
• Cleanup workaround for installd/PackageKit access restriction introduced in macOS 26.1, 15.7.2 & 14.8.2 by @rgoldberg in #1075
• Don't warn if multiple bundles installed by installer by @rgoldberg in #1088

Changes

• Minor cleanup by @rgoldberg in #1078
• Include app identifying info in warnings & errors as suitable & as easily accomplished by @rgoldberg in #1081
• Improve mas version parsability by @rgoldberg in #1083
• Update pkg installer for wrapper shell script by @rgoldberg in #1090

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v4.0.0

• 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 App Store, but their installers can still be downloaded
• outdated output is now properly tabulated

What's Changed

🚀 Features

• Improve download progress output by @rgoldberg in #1074

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Improve outdated app detection by @rgoldberg in #1070
• Properly tabulate outdated output by @rgoldberg in #1072

Changes

• Improve downloading/installing progress output by @rgoldberg in #1064
• Improve documentation, help text & output; cleanup repo. by @rgoldberg in #1066
• Update GHA actions/checkout to 6 by @rgoldberg in #1068

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.1.0