WhatsKept

v1.6.2 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 6d Forensics & Incident Response

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Installer command avoids macOS Gatekeeper quarantine on Apple Silicon.

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macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon).

Recommended — one Terminal command, zero Gatekeeper friction:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://github.com/alkait/WhatsKept/releases/latest/download/install.sh)"

curl-downloaded files don't carry the com.apple.quarantine xattr that browsers attach, so the installer can drop a quarantine-free WhatsKept.app into /Applications without ever tripping the "WhatsKept is damaged" dialog. Re-run after every update.

Other ways to get it:

WhatsKept-darwin-arm64-*.app.zip — browser download. Unzip, then double-click Install WhatsKept.command inside the unzipped folder. macOS will ask to confirm the .command (right-click → Open the first time) but the script itself runs the same install steps.
whatskept-darwin-arm64-*.zip — bare CLI for whatskept extract / scripts.

Why this dance? WhatsKept is open-source and ad-hoc signed (no Apple Developer account). On Sequoia the kernel refuses to launch ad-hoc-signed apps that carry a quarantine xattr, with no right-click bypass. The curl|bash route avoids quarantine entirely; the .command route works around it after a one-time confirmation.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/alkait/WhatsKept/compare/v1.6.1...v1.6.2

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