Changelog
Review App Trust Preview release notes for new checks, clearer wording, and UI improvements.
- Added Download history with source URLs, download application, date, file type, quarantine status, and macOS processing metadata.
- Added one-click copying of the original download URL.
- Reorganized Internet access and potential connections into one clearer section.
- Improved Technical details with relevant code-signing, Finder, and system file metadata.
- Improved DMG reports by clearly separating metadata for the disk image, extracted app, and bundled components.
- Expanded JSON, text, and CLI reports with download history and file metadata.
- Fixed incorrect whole-app quarantine claims and confusing metadata descriptions.
- Improved nested PKG extraction reliability, including packages containing symbolic links.
- Preserved existing report order and visibility preferences after the panel reorganization.
- Added Spanish (Latin America) and Portuguese (Brazil) translations.
- Clarified privacy permission reporting to distinguish saved macOS choices from live access and explain whether those choices match the analyzed app build.
- Added prominent warnings for apps that can load unvalidated third-party code or use unsigned executable memory.
- Privacy permissions now show whether they match the inspected build.
- Improved handling of downloaded apps, scripts, and executables.
- Added checks showing whether notarization tickets are attached for offline verification.
- Added a customizable “Open with other apps” report section.
- Added warnings for development builds that allow debugger attachment or use development push notifications.
- Added affected component paths to important entitlement warnings.
- Added the new security findings to exported reports and command-line results.
- Added personal notes for recording useful information about analyzed apps.
- Added an option to move a downloaded DMG to the Trash after installing its app.
- Removed irrelevant Apple safety checks from script reports.
- Added options to export an analyzed app to a folder, ZIP archive, or DMG disk image.
- Added an option to install an analyzed app, including one opened from a DMG file, in the Applications folder when explicitly requested by the user.
- Improved signature, Gatekeeper, notarization, and certificate revocation reporting.
- Unknown or unreadable signatures are no longer incorrectly shown as unsigned.
- Unavailable checks are clearly separated from actual security failures.
- A “Strong” result now requires every relevant trust check to complete successfully.
- Improved installer package signature and notarization classification.
- Fixed an issue where App Trust Preview could not analyze apps on mounted disk images or apps blocked by macOS.
- Improved the user interface.
- The copy button in “Potential Network Connections” now copies the actual URL list instead of the domain name.
- Added static analysis that finds domains and URLs embedded in an app before you open it
- Added configurable limits for advanced component rows and other network references
- Made the collapsed report view more compact
- Fixed support for legacy macOS versions.
- Added a Hash Lookup report for internal app executables, making it easy to review and copy file hashes.
- Added basic VirusTotal support. From the Hash Lookup report, you can open VirusTotal links to review existing reports for detected hashes.
- Fixed localization issues.
- Improved AI agent integration. Instruct an agent to learn App Trust Preview usage via the —help key and ask it to analyze apps within allowed paths.
- Enhanced PKG analysis capabilities for more accurate and detailed inspection of installer packages.
- Added support for installer packages, disk images, binary executables, and scripts.
- Added a command line interface for exporting reports from a given app, package, disk image, executable, or script. This enables powerful automation workflows and external AI analysis.
- Added a Settings dialog for configuring Quick Look and the main app report view. You can now reorder sections and hide the sections you do not need.
- Added multi-window support, so you can analyze more than one item at the same time.
- Improved the interface, optimized trust signal detection, and fixed multiple report and analysis issues.
- Added support for 30 new languages: Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Odia, Punjabi, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
- Added Sparkle framework detection.
- Improved UI consistency and fixed visual layout issues.
- Improved wording across the app for easier understanding.
- Added many new security and privacy signals.
- Added translations for 12 languages.
- Improved notarization detection.
- Added display of user-granted permissions for the scanned app.
- Added quick buttons to open the relevant System Settings privacy sections.
- Added framework detection, including Electron and Chromium-based apps.
- Added app architecture and bundle size details.
- Added many smaller improvements and fixes based on community feedback.
- First release