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A Cocoa framework for making OS X apps update themselves automatically.

Sparkle is an open source software framework for OS X designed to simplify updating software for the end user of a program. Sparkle's primary means of distributing updates is through "appcasting," a term coined for the practice of using an RSS enclosure to distribute updates and release notes.

At the end of 2013, development of Sparkle was ended by the original author, then later picked up by the newly formed Sparkle Project open source group on GitHub in June 2014 as the official continuation of the project. wikipedia

Sparkle was created by Andy Matuschak and is currently developed and maintained by the Sparkle Project.

Current version:

The latest official release is 1.7.1, delivered on 1 July 2014.

License

Sparkle is available under the MIT license.

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Sparkle Freezes on "Installing update..."

I'm trying to implement Sparkle in a brackets-shell application. I believe I have everything set up properly, but it seems to fail. It will run through the update, find the update, get it ready and then when I hit the "Install and Relaunch" button,…
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Sparkle Framework alternative for wxPython and Windows development

I create application on wxPython for MS Windows. It's a port of native OS X application I made before. In OS X application autoupdate of application is gracefully serving with Sparkle Framework. (It detects application updates by reading…
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how to sign your update in sparkle

Can anybody tell me how to sign updates for mac application in sparkle. I checked https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle/wiki/publishing-an-update But did't get any clear idea.Please tell me Is this done by Mac developer id ? And what are the…
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Sparkle Framework and the Mac App Store: Best practices?

What is your approach when it comes to distributing via the Mac App Store and having been using the Sparkle framework. I found these two sites that mention the problems and how to resolve these but I'd like to know how you handle…
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Adding Sparkle framework in Xcode 4

I'm totally stuck in a operation that might be really simple...adding Sparkle to a project created in Xcode 4. I did these operations : Added Sparkle.framework to my project (drag&drop) Added to "link Binary With Libraries" but it generated this…
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Basic Usage of generate_appcast tool of Sparkle Updater

Since macOS 11.3 broke my Perl script which I have been using to generate Sparkle appcasts for the last 12 years, I decided to instead start using the generate_appcast tool which has since been provided with Sparkle. Invoking generate_appcast with…
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Big Sur - Archive error in xcode12 for pod sparkle

Before updating to big sur my project worked without any problem... After updating I keep getting errors saying Undefined symbol: OBJC_CLASS$_SUUpdater and Command CompileSwift failed with a nonzero exit code I'm using pod --> sparkle for updating…
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Sparkle checkForUpdatesInBackground places no request on webserver

In my command-line application, when calling [[SUUpdater sharedUpdater] checkForUpdatesInBackground], project Sparkle does not place an HTTPS request on my webserver. I want a call to checkForUpdatesInBackground to succeed, so I know my setup is…
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How to make links in Sparkle release notes open default browser?

I am using Sparkle for updates in a macOS app, and pass release notes in the appcast.xml tag: https://example.com/release-notes.html The release notes contain HTML, which Sparkle displays, and…
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Sparkle Shows Message "Your App is Up to Date" every time on launch after updating

I am using Sparkle framework for updating my Mac app . The updation is successfully done . But now after the updation on every launch of the application user gets a message "Your App is Up to Date". How can i disable this message on every launch ? I…
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Update /usr/local/lib library with Sparkle

A legacy macOS project installs some *.dylibs to /usr/local/lib. If I understand correctly, the basic Sprakle setup does not update these libraries. Is this correct? If so, how can I make Sparkle update these files?
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Sparkle The update will be rejected

I am using Xamarin to make a MAC application. To fetch updates I am using Sparkle Framework. I have signed old built and new build and included public in both. But still i receive error "The update archive isn't signed with a DSA key, and the old…
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After new version is updated using WinSparkle it doesn't launch app automatically

I'm using WinSparkle (latest version 0.5.3) framework in my Qt C++ app for auto-update. It works perfectly with detecting new version, downloading and installing the new version automatically. But I found after the new version is installed, it…
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Sparkle Updater: How could I use sparkle to install an already downloaded update?

I have developed a Mac OS X app, and I have also written the update logic for this app. Basically, my app can detect if an update exists and it downloads the update to the User's local download directory. Now, I want Sparkle to install this…
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Is it safe to replace Sparkle with a newer version

&tldr; What prevents us from replacing an old Sparkle.framework with a newer Sparkle.framework? Sparkle is a framework commonly used in Mac OS X applications to manage updates. Recently, a vulnerability to man-in-the-middle attacks was reported;…
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