Alectrona Patch 3.6.1498 focuses on improving notification reliability, icon management, and the accuracy of application updates. This release introduces better control and automation for Notification Center icons, adds detection when the Patch Menu Bar app has been hidden (with a notification prompting users to re-enable it), and further strengthens the overall update experience.
Alectrona Patch 3.5 introduces Patch Extend (Beta), a powerful new feature that lets you curate and manage custom software feeds alongside the built-in Alectrona Patch Catalog. With Patch Extend, you can bring internal or line-of-business applications into the same streamlined Patch workflows you use for third-party software鈥攃omplete with automated updates, deferral logic, and user notifications.
Additionally, this release adds new Global Allow/Blackout Windows settings for controlling when updates can or cannot be installed, giving you greater flexibility to minimize disruptions during critical business hours.
This release also improves Patch Reports with Shadow App detection, enhances update reliability, and includes several bug fixes for DDM deadlines, the Patch Menu Bar app, and the Classic Update Dialog.
Alectrona Patch 3.4 includes several enhancements to improve your experience with the Patch Menu Bar app and the patch command line tool.
Alectrona Patch 3.3 is fully optimized for macOS Tahoe 26, ensuring a seamless experience from day one with Apple鈥檚 latest release. 馃帀
This update brings greater reliability and responsiveness to your update workflow. Download failures are now automatically retried, reducing interruptions from network issues. Additionally, the Patch Menu Bar app鈥檚 badge updates more quickly after macOS updates, giving users instant feedback. Available macOS updates now display DDM deadlines, helping users stay informed about important update timelines. Moreover, this release includes a range of bug fixes for even more dependable patch management.
Alectrona Patch 3.2 introduces new features and enhancements to the Patch Menu Bar app, making it easier for your users to access key system information and stay informed about their Mac's health.
If you鈥檝e been using Patch to update third-party apps but relying on other tools to notify users about macOS updates, uptime, or storage issues, Alectrona Patch 3.2 now consolidates these notifications and insights into a single solution.
The new System tab in the Patch Menu Bar app provides quick access to critical system details and warnings, including macOS update status, uptime alerts, and storage usage information. New preferences also allow you to control if macOS updates or system health warnings are visible to users, enabling a more customized deployment.
With the release of Alectrona Patch 3.0, we introduced the Patch Menu Bar app, transforming how end-users interact with Patch. Now, we're excited to announce Patch Desktop 2.0鈥攁 purpose-built tool that makes it easy to configure every aspect of Alectrona Patch, redesigned to include all of the settings for the Patch Menu Bar app.
Since the release of Alectrona Patch 3.0, we've received incredible feedback, and we're thrilled to introduce even more ways to customize the Patch Menu Bar app.
With Alectrona Patch 3.1, we're adding four new customization options and addressing a few minor bugs to enhance your experience.
With the release of Alectrona Patch 3.0, we are excited to introduce the next evolution of our notification system: the Patch Menu Bar app. This new app is designed to provide a more modern and streamlined experience for users, while still maintaining the core functionality that our users have come to expect.
The Patch Menu Bar app combines native Notification Center notifications with an intuitive Menu Bar interface that has been designed from the ground up to provide the best app update experience on macOS. This new app is fully customizable, allowing you to change the top branding image, title, and subtitle to match your organization鈥檚 branding. It鈥檚 also fully compatible with Deferral Limits, ensuring that important updates are never ignored.
This release of Alectrona Patch 2.4 focuses on improving running application detection and logging, ensuring smoother and more consistent updates.
We've optimized the performance of generating Patch Reports, which now include the device's managed Patch Configuration in the report output.
We've also resolved an issue where the Active Intervals feature did not function as expected when using the Update All feature.