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AutoDMG v1.7.219 Dec 2016: 1.7.2 was pulled due to a crash on startup for new users, please use 1.7.3 instead. Read on →

AutoDMG v1.7.108 Dec 2016: Hot on the heels of last week’s release, here’s AutoDMG 1.7.1 where I’ve focused on polish and bugfixing. This release brings the list of open issues down to zero, which feels really good! Unfortunately that also meant closing a few older feature requests that I wanted to implement, but when push came to shove if there’s a simple one-line workaround in the Terminal, it’s hard to motivate spending half a day on implementation and regression... Read on →

CreateUserPkg is up for adoption07 Dec 2016: As some of you might know, I’ve been on a leave of absence this autumn, and I’ve basically been fortunate enough to have the days to myself. I’ve spent most of it on bike rides around Columbus, playing around with the laser cutter at the Columbus Idea Foundry, or preparing for the talk I gave at MacTech, but over these last couple of weeks I’ve been catching up on some of my open source projects.... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.701 Dec 2016: I was planning a small bugfix release, but I felt that the changes were large enough for a major version bump. The AppleScript trampoline that I used to kick off the privileged OS install task has been replaced by the much nicer STPrivilegedTask. If you have automation set up to run AutoDMG, please test this release carefully. Rewrote launch code for the privileged task that runs the OS installer. Fixed beachballing during finalize task. Fixed... Read on →

AutoDMG v1.619 Sep 2016: Just in time for macOS Sierra we have AutoDMG 1.6: Added 10.12 support. Removed 10.8 support. AutoDMG will not try to remount already mounted images, fixing 10.12 installer. Added advanced option to skip asr imagescan (thanks @timsutton). AutoDMG will not relaunch on login (thanks @nmcspadden). Fixed volume size setting not being saved to templates (thanks @timsutton). Fixed handling of relative package paths on the command line (thanks @timsutton). Fixed usage of base image as source... Read on →