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🎉 Highlighted Features

• Support for deploying scripts as mobileconfig payloads https://github.com/macadmins/outset/wiki/Payloads
  • Includes script for assistance in generating payload plists
• Updated Jamf pro schema and service status EA https://github.com/macadmins/outset/tree/main/MDM/Jamf%20Pro #59
• Updated Icon - out with circle, in with squircle

🛠️ Fixes

• LaunchAgents+LaunchDaemons - Program is using Array instead of String. Should fix #60
• Fix the checksum all command so that the outset/logs folder is ignored #54
• Fixed link to wiki FAQ in README.md.

🐞 Something not on this list? Please create an issue.

Contributors

@strlng, @HowardGMac, @rodchristiansen, @spacelatte, @bartreardon

Changes

• 072f51e - ADD: JSON Schema for External Applications payload in Jamf Pro
• 9539615 - FIX: Mismatched indentation
• 89fc92c - Initial commit for 4.2.0 More code cleanup and re-arranging Added "on demand privileged" Added initial capability to run scripts contained as base64 bundles in a confir profile (currently nothing calls this)
• 5296d50 - Update README.md
• 7af77c1 - scripts as base64 encoded payloads TODO: - restrict to managed preferences - integrate with standard workflow including checks for run-once - remove debug code
• dc01bf0 - Moved a bunch of stuff around to support running scripts from a preference plist This should now be working for all script types. Some work to do on properly procesing --add-override which currently prepends the login-once path which causes the override check to not match.
• 8f80fe9 - Merge pull request #56 from strlng/patch-1
• 4d91046 - Merge pull request #47 from VentionCo/jamfpro-jsonschema
• e22ceb4 - Fix for issue #54
• da95c68 - Merge pull request #58 from HowardGMac/dev_4.2.0
• 90270b3 - update version number
• ce6c46e - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• acbea2d - Fixing Info.plist version so the github action works
• 8c45f52 - Outset icon updated rocket graphic and as squircle
• 121c163 - Merge pull request #61 from rodchristiansen/main
• 9673efe - updating payload code for inclusion of scripts
• 230c085 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• 73ae10e - Add logic to merge multiple script_payloads into one for processing. Add logic for add-override and remove-override to handle payload scripts with "payload=". The alternate is we don't assume loginOnce.directoryPath if no path is given. Discussion welcome
• 78002de - Update payload logic to properly collect payload data from all defaults domains. Added logic to skip a payload if it's not from a managed domain and debug is not enabled.
• 0e47d16 - Updated readme with new outset icon and cleaned up some of the text
• 62125b1 - Update build_outset.zsh
• ef7b4ad - Update build_outset_prerelease_manual.yml
• 345ebc9 - update workflows for macOS 14
• 650cfbc - update to v4 of upload-artifact
• 0e4ff18 - Update build_outset.zsh
• f9edb02 - Fix up processing for on-demand and on-demand-privileged tasks
• 18689ed - fix typo for registering the on demand daemon (was agent instead of daemon)
• 8626559 - update release build workflow
• 4078398 - Added script to generate payload plists for use with MDM
• d123560 - update project file referencing the new outset-payload script
• 2af330b - Updated payloads to use data type instead of string
• a1b1692 - fix(LaunchAgents+LaunchDaemons): Program is using Array instead of String
• 497df79 - Merge pull request #63 from spacelatte/spacelatte/fix-program-array-to-string
• 6499a45 - Update reference from outset-payload.sh to outset-payload
• 6e0d605 - Update build_outset_prerelease_manual.yml
• 5851ba9 - Update build_outset_release_manual.yml
• c01bad2 - Merge pull request #62 from macadmins/dev_4.2.0

This is a release candidate for Outset 4.2.0. Please report any remaining bugs by creating a new issue

Updated information on the new script payloads feature can be found in the wiki along with the outset-payload helper script for generating payloads.

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changes

• 072f51e - ADD: JSON Schema for External Applications payload in Jamf Pro
• 9539615 - FIX: Mismatched indentation
• 89fc92c - Initial commit for 4.2.0 More code cleanup and re-arranging Added "on demand privileged" Added initial capability to run scripts contained as base64 bundles in a confir profile (currently nothing calls this)
• 5296d50 - Update README.md
• 7af77c1 - scripts as base64 encoded payloads TODO: - restrict to managed preferences - integrate with standard workflow including checks for run-once - remove debug code
• dc01bf0 - Moved a bunch of stuff around to support running scripts from a preference plist This should now be working for all script types. Some work to do on properly procesing --add-override which currently prepends the login-once path which causes the override check to not match.
• 8f80fe9 - Merge pull request #56 from strlng/patch-1
• 4d91046 - Merge pull request #47 from VentionCo/jamfpro-jsonschema
• e22ceb4 - Fix for issue #54
• da95c68 - Merge pull request #58 from HowardGMac/dev_4.2.0
• 90270b3 - update version number
• ce6c46e - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• acbea2d - Fixing Info.plist version so the github action works
• 8c45f52 - Outset icon updated rocket graphic and as squircle
• 121c163 - Merge pull request #61 from rodchristiansen/main
• 9673efe - updating payload code for inclusion of scripts
• 230c085 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• 73ae10e - Add logic to merge multiple script_payloads into one for processing. Add logic for add-override and remove-override to handle payload scripts with "payload=". The alternate is we don't assume loginOnce.directoryPath if no path is given. Discussion welcome
• 78002de - Update payload logic to properly collect payload data from all defaults domains. Added logic to skip a payload if it's not from a managed domain and debug is not enabled.
• 0e47d16 - Updated readme with new outset icon and cleaned up some of the text
• 345ebc9 - update workflows for macOS 14
• 650cfbc - update to v4 of upload-artifact
• 0e4ff18 - Update build_outset.zsh
• f9edb02 - Fix up processing for on-demand and on-demand-privileged tasks
• 18689ed - fix typo for registering the on demand daemon (was agent instead of daemon)
• 8626559 - update release build workflow
• 4078398 - Added script to generate payload plists for use with MDM
• d123560 - update project file referencing the new outset-payload script

What's Changed

• Update README.md by @strlng in #56
• JSON Schema for Jamf Pro in #47
• Fix for issue #54 by @HowardGMac in #58
• Outset updated rocket graphic as squircle icon by @rodchristiansen in #61

New Contributors

• @strlng made their first contribution in #56
• @rodchristiansen made their first contribution in #61

Full Changelog: main...dev_4.2.0

Notes

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Changelog (new since last preview release)

• d123560 - update project file referencing the new outset-payload script
• 2af330b - Updated payloads to use data type instead of string
• a1b1692 - fix(LaunchAgents+LaunchDaemons): Program is using Array instead of String
• 497df79 - Merge pull request #63 from spacelatte/spacelatte/fix-program-array-to-string
• 6499a45 - Update reference from outset-payload.sh to outset-payload

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

New

Script Payloads

This release contains a feature for deploying scripts as MDM payloads. overrides and run-once are recorded as per usual

Setup:

encode your script as a base64 string: base64 -i /path/to/script.sh -w80

construct a payload in the following format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>script_payloads[OPTIONAL_IDENTIFIER]</key>
        <dict>
                <key>ACTION_TYPE</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>SCRIPT_NAME</key>
                        <string>BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</string>
                </dict>
        </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

ACTION_TYPE can be one of the standard outset folder names, e.g. login-every, login-once etc. You can include multiple action types with additional <key><string> pairs per action.

SCRIPT_NAME can be any unique string. Set the users desktop picture is a valid script name. You can include multiple scripts per action type with additional <key><string> pairs per script.

BASE64_ENCODED_DATA is your base64 encoded script

The parent key by default is <key>script_payloads</key>. Outset will look for this key and process the contents. This key must be unique if deploying multiple profiles so to support this you can add an optional identifier, e.g. <key>script_payloads-VIP_Users</key>. You can deploy multiple profiles to a dingle device and Outset will combine them together for processing.

By default, Outset will only process managed payload scripts (i.e. delivered via MDM). For testing with local profiles in /Library/Preferences/, run outset with the --debug flag

To create an override for a payload delivered script run /usr/local/outset/outset --add-override payload="Script Name"

More detailed documentation will be available in the wiki in the near future.

Changelog

Changes

• 072f51e - ADD: JSON Schema for External Applications payload in Jamf Pro
• 9539615 - FIX: Mismatched indentation
• 89fc92c - Initial commit for 4.2.0 More code cleanup and re-arranging Added "on demand privileged" Added initial capability to run scripts contained as base64 bundles in a confir profile (currently nothing calls this)
• 5296d50 - Update README.md
• 7af77c1 - scripts as base64 encoded payloads TODO: - restrict to managed preferences - integrate with standard workflow including checks for run-once - remove debug code
• dc01bf0 - Moved a bunch of stuff around to support running scripts from a preference plist This should now be working for all script types. Some work to do on properly procesing --add-override which currently prepends the login-once path which causes the override check to not match.
• 8f80fe9 - Merge pull request #56 from strlng/patch-1
• 4d91046 - Merge pull request #47 from VentionCo/jamfpro-jsonschema
• e22ceb4 - Fix for issue #54
• da95c68 - Merge pull request #58 from HowardGMac/dev_4.2.0
• 90270b3 - update version number
• ce6c46e - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• acbea2d - Fixing Info.plist version so the github action works
• 8c45f52 - Outset icon updated rocket graphic and as squircle
• 121c163 - Merge pull request #61 from rodchristiansen/main
• 9673efe - updating payload code for inclusion of scripts
• 230c085 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• 73ae10e - Add logic to merge multiple script_payloads into one for processing. Add logic for add-override and remove-override to handle payload scripts with "payload=". The alternate is we don't assume loginOnce.directoryPath if no path is given. Discussion welcome
• 78002de - Update payload logic to properly collect payload data from all defaults domains. Added logic to skip a payload if it's not from a managed domain and debug is not enabled.
• 0e47d16 - Updated readme with new outset icon and cleaned up some of the text
• 345ebc9 - update workflows for macOS 14
• 650cfbc - update to v4 of upload-artifact
• 0e4ff18 - Update build_outset.zsh

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

Changes

• 072f51e - ADD: JSON Schema for External Applications payload in Jamf Pro
• 9539615 - FIX: Mismatched indentation
• 89fc92c - Initial commit for 4.2.0 More code cleanup and re-arranging Added "on demand privileged" Added initial capability to run scripts contained as base64 bundles in a confir profile (currently nothing calls this)
• 5296d50 - Update README.md
• 7af77c1 - scripts as base64 encoded payloads TODO: - restrict to managed preferences - integrate with standard workflow including checks for run-once - remove debug code
• dc01bf0 - Moved a bunch of stuff around to support running scripts from a preference plist This should now be working for all script types. Some work to do on properly procesing --add-override which currently prepends the login-once path which causes the override check to not match.
• 8f80fe9 - Merge pull request #56 from strlng/patch-1
• 4d91046 - Merge pull request #47 from VentionCo/jamfpro-jsonschema
• e22ceb4 - Fix for issue #54
• da95c68 - Merge pull request #58 from HowardGMac/dev_4.2.0
• 90270b3 - update version number
• ce6c46e - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.2.0'
• acbea2d - Fixing Info.plist version so the github action works

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

• Fixed issue where overrides were not being added correctly #41
• Fixed an issue where cleanup trigger was potentially being run in a context that didn't have permissions to clean up the files.
• Some processing logs changes from .debug to .info so they always appear in the log without requiring debug to be enabled
• Attempt to address conditions where overrides from Outset 3 do not get migrated to /Library/Preferences #50
• Improvements to outset-pkg #35
• Added extension attribute script for Jamf Pro to indicate outset agent health

Legacy Outset:

• remove distutils/profiles, bump to 3.0.4 #52

Changes

• cca4e2e - Update Outset.swift
• 75f5645 - ADD: Service status extension attribute for Jamf Pro
• a1d0aa0 - Merge pull request #42 from HowardGMac/fix41
• 97446de - REF: simplify possible values for reporting to the extension attribute
• 2ecc76f - Merge pull request #48 from seanchristians-vention/jamfpro-ea
• 71bd8fe - Update outset-pkg with some additional features
• f953005 - fixes an issue where cleanup trigger was potentially being run in a context that didn't have permissions to clean up the files.
• 27f9f16 - fixes #44 all log content is sent to the log file now
• 1c38f94 - Addresses #49 "Processing" type messages are sent as info instead of debug.
• 8b91181 - Should address #50
• 84ed18f - version number
• ca069c9 - FIX: Expected behaviour when no user is logged in
• cba46a8 - Merge pull request #51 from VentionCo/jamfpro-ea
• ee29f32 - remove distutils/profiles, bump
• bd56546 - Merge pull request #52 from arubdesu/py3.12bugfix
• f3f7926 - reverting 27f9f16
• 45d9bfc - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.1.2'
• e1b64f1 - Merge pull request #53 from macadmins/dev_4.1.2

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

Changes

• cca4e2e - Update Outset.swift
• 75f5645 - ADD: Service status extension attribute for Jamf Pro
• a1d0aa0 - Merge pull request #42 from HowardGMac/fix41
• 97446de - REF: simplify possible values for reporting to the extension attribute
• 2ecc76f - Merge pull request #48 from seanchristians-vention/jamfpro-ea
• 71bd8fe - Update outset-pkg with some additional features
• f953005 - fixes an issue where cleanup trigger was potentially being run in a context that didn't have permissions to clean up the files.
• 27f9f16 - fixes #44 all log content is sent to the log file now
• 1c38f94 - Addresses #49 "Processing" type messages are sent as info instead of debug.
• 8b91181 - Should address #50
• 84ed18f - version number
• ca069c9 - FIX: Expected behaviour when no user is logged in
• cba46a8 - Merge pull request #51 from VentionCo/jamfpro-ea
• ee29f32 - remove distutils/profiles, bump
• bd56546 - Merge pull request #52 from arubdesu/py3.12bugfix
• f3f7926 - reverting 27f9f16
• 45d9bfc - Merge remote-tracking branch 'refs/remotes/origin/dev_4.1.2'

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

Changes

• cca4e2e - Update Outset.swift
• 75f5645 - ADD: Service status extension attribute for Jamf Pro
• a1d0aa0 - Merge pull request #42 from HowardGMac/fix41
• 97446de - REF: simplify possible values for reporting to the extension attribute
• 2ecc76f - Merge pull request #48 from seanchristians-vention/jamfpro-ea
• 71bd8fe - Update outset-pkg with some additional features
• f953005 - fixes an issue where cleanup trigger was potentially being run in a context that didn't have permissions to clean up the files.
• 27f9f16 - fixes #44 all log content is sent to the log file now
• 1c38f94 - Addresses #49 "Processing" type messages are sent as info instead of debug.
• 8b91181 - Should address #50
• 84ed18f - version number

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

Changes

• e1d49b5 - Updated README.md with current info. Also moved some content around and linked classic outset to the copy contained in this repo
• 403a949 - Removed some typos
• 9ebcd3b - Fix issue where on-demand cleanup wasn't happening. Added cleanup of the cleanup trigger to the cleanup logic (yo dawg) Also tidied up some of the SwiftLint stuff and moved disabled rules to the .swiftlint.yml file
• ef84e94 - ugh, git cleanup - should be in line with main now
• e5197fa - use marketing version instead of static version in info.plist
• 140167e - ugh
• 101dab3 - keeping the linter happy
• 1cdcbbc - Moved things around so relevant components are easier to locate Some minor function renaming
• e3cd80a - Folder re-name bumped version to 4.1.0
• f03950b - update logging and output routines so error and debug are sent to stderr instead of stdout
• 70bdfcd - Added log rotate function - crude for now, should probably look at https://github.com/apple/swift-log package
• bcf8537 - moved some log variables around
• ac1c801 - Merge pull request #37 from macadmins/dev_4.1.0
• 9b6168a - Fixes #38
• 74f0bdc - ensure spelling is consistent
• feb75cc - Fix postinstall items
• 532e629 - Merge pull request #40 from macadmins/hotfix-override
• 457c116 - Merge pull request #39 from WardsParadox/main

Notes

This is a version of Outset created by GitHub Actions.
Outset.app has been signed and notarized. The package has been signed, notarized and stapled.

Changelog

Changes

• e1d49b5 - Updated README.md with current info. Also moved some content around and linked classic outset to the copy contained in this repo
• 403a949 - Removed some typos
• 9ebcd3b - Fix issue where on-demand cleanup wasn't happening. Added cleanup of the cleanup trigger to the cleanup logic (yo dawg) Also tidied up some of the SwiftLint stuff and moved disabled rules to the .swiftlint.yml file
• ef84e94 - ugh, git cleanup - should be in line with main now
• e5197fa - use marketing version instead of static version in info.plist
• 140167e - ugh
• 101dab3 - keeping the linter happy
• 1cdcbbc - Moved things around so relevant components are easier to locate Some minor function renaming
• e3cd80a - Folder re-name bumped version to 4.1.0
• f03950b - update logging and output routines so error and debug are sent to stderr instead of stdout
• 70bdfcd - Added log rotate function - crude for now, should probably look at https://github.com/apple/swift-log package
• bcf8537 - moved some log variables around
• ac1c801 - Merge pull request #37 from macadmins/dev_4.1.0
• 9b6168a - Fixes #38
• 74f0bdc - ensure spelling is consistent