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Bresink Software Updater Version History

Release 1.9 (Build 250312)

Because Apple changed the terminology for software updates in some languages and to avoid confusion between functions that update programs or refresh the status display of programs, some menu items and buttons use different wordings now.
The application was hardened further with additional security checks to prevent theoretical abuse of update features by malware.
Due to the continuing performance problems of Spotlight in macOS 15 Sequoia, the intended delay when refreshing the application list after successful updates is increased by 100% if necessary.

This is a routine update that makes internal modernizations to the application:

Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave and macOS 10.15 Catalina has been removed.
Added new features for authorization of privileged operations. The application will now allow authentication of administrative users in additional special cases previously not permitted:

authorization within a running login session of a non-administrator
authorization by administrators with empty passwords in operating system versions that don’t block this generally
authorization in cases where multiple users are logged in, but the affected user is not on the frontmost console session

Administrators can return to the previous stricter authorization policies if needed.
Modernized organization of language support files.

Added new workarounds for the continuing quality problems of macOS 13.

Added changes necessary for full compatibility with macOS 13.1 Ventura.
Added more protection against operating system defects. The application also provides additional user guidance for these cases.
Added protection against situations where the application is operated with a network firewall that doesn’t allow the necessary Internet connections. In specific cases, this could result in unexpected program termination instead of an error message.

Code modernization and small changes in the user interface.
Adds a workaround for a layout issue with some versions of macOS where table columns could sometimes be clipped.

Added full support for macOS 12 Monterey.
Support for macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra has been removed.
This version fixes a problem where the software updater could show partially incorrect instructions when it detected that third-party applications tried to damage the installation of the privileged helper utility.

Added full support for macOS 11 Big Sur.
Added feature to normalize the ownership of an updated application under specific circumstances.
Added internal policy never to consider applications on file servers or inactive Time Machine volumes for automatic update.
The application now accepts that the user provides a custom icon.

Added new feature to automatically transfer macOS tags and Spotlight comments for each updating application from the old to the new version.
Added new feature to show the file system paths of application copies as help tags in the table of found software products.

Added support for future versions of macOS.
Added support for self-updates of the updater.
Enhanced display of release information if a newly available package is only a build update, not a version update.
Fixed an issue where the Finder did not show the application name in expected spelling style, depending on the user’s language settings.

First official version of Bresink Software Updater.