Sparkle (software)

Sparkle is an open-source software framework for macOS 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.

Sparkle
Sparkle's Test App showing a software update window
Original author(s)Andy Matuschak
Developer(s)Sparkle Project (2014–present)
Initial releaseJanuary 9, 2006 (2006-01-09)
Stable release
1.23.0 / February 2020 (2020-02)
Preview release
1.24.0-a / May 2020 (2020-05)
Written inObjective-C
Operating systemmacOS
TypeSoftware update
LicenseMIT License
Websitesparkle-project.org

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.[1]

Other OS alternatives

There are several open source Windows alternatives to offer similar functionality to Sparkle:

There is also a REALbasic implementation of Sparkle that works on macOS, Windows and Linux: RBSparkle.

gollark: Both in the sense of "actually competent enough" and "aligned enough to human values".
gollark: AI isn't good enough for that yet.
gollark: Because human is poorly designed.
gollark: Make your bowl from ice cream then.
gollark: There are uses for loads of the weird admin-created anomalies. The random reich tower is... free housing or alternately concrete, the bedrock spheres are... well, if hollow, nice buildings? The lava pools are free lava, obviously.

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