munki

This is the official release of Munki 7.2.0, a feature-add and bug-fix release of the Munki tools.

This is the same build as Release Candidate 1.

Build info

• This release was built with Xcode 26.5 (17F42) on macOS 26.4 (25E246) via a GitHub Actions workflow here: https://github.com/macadmins/munki-builds. It has been signed and notarized by MacAdmins Open Source.

• Distribution package version: 7.2.0.5787

  • Components:
    • com.googlecode.munki.core 7.2.0.5787
    • com.googlecode.munki.admin 7.2.0.5787
    • com.googlecode.munki.app 7.2.0.5785
    • com.googlecode.munki.app_usage 7.2.0.5787
    • com.googlecode.munki.launchd 7.0.0.5320
    • com.googlecode.munki.pythonlibs 6.7.0.5293
    • com.googlecode.munki.libs 5.5

New feature:

• Optional (admin-managed) user preference for "allowed notification time windows".
  See https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Allowed-notification-windows for details on this new feature.

Bug fixes:

• Percent-encode '+' character in all requests for Munki resources; this makes some web servers happier. https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/427a9268ff4d36a8a9063a87e4419683ec2e4e6c
• MSC.app: Fix for an issue where you are repeatedly prompted to install available Apple updates when attempting to quit https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/ec7a61cc4519097d4a1a0f3ede3ffda828a084a9
• MSC.app: Fix positioning/layout of status info on item detail pages. Addresses #1357 Thanks to @chrisgrande and @robertryansqub. https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/2e4e3e1eda3ce07518220fd88116146dc12a78d0
• manifestutil: A fix for a reference to a non-existent subcommand. Thanks to @jc0b. #1365
• managedsoftwareupdate: A fix for clearing bootstrap mode if there is keyboard or mouse activity during a session. https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/57bed10f94b59746ff2ee525a6e688a6d95951b3

Other changes:

• When failing to retrieve the primary manifest, instead of exiting immediately, continue to run any existing Munki postflight script. Addresses #1353 Thanks to @BigMacAdmin. https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/81721f369098076933977e315afec57b6fa451ea
• A fix for a potential security issue: this change prevents embedding external URLs inside munki:// URLs. Thanks to @kevinmcox. ttps://github.com/munki/munki/commit/b015b45d419f21f5315b565627ee8234ef46210b
• managedsoftwareupdate: Changes to status/progress info messages for more consistent/predictable progress info: https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/17838ce7a1d9539a1736c626ad2029456e2cec10
• managedsoftwareupdate: some changes to the handling of pkginfo 'display_name' and 'icon_name' keys to more closely match the behavior of the previous Python code. Thanks to @stevemaser for reporting.
• Managed Software Center.app: improved behavior when quitting the app by better tracking when the quit is initiated by Munki vs the user: https://github.com/munki/munki/commit/e43495c18a2f82f55e5594de75c3b130f703d9eb

Localization

Thanks to the following people for contributing to updated localizations for Managed Software Center:

• Danish: Thanks to Thomas Tvegaard.
• Dutch: Thanks to Dimitri Van Elsen.
• Finnish: Thanks to Tuomo Lindqvist and @MiqViq.
• French: Thanks to Bertrand Chatain.
• German: Thanks to Henning Kessler.
• Italian: Thanks to Daniel Moore and Paolo Bonzini.
• Japanese: Thanks to Koji Arita and @arubdesu.
• Norwegian Bokmål: Thanks to Frank Paul Silye.
• Russian: Thanks to Mike Pullen, Daniel Moore, and Tatiana Ovchinnikova (@xtmprsqzntwlfb)
• Spanish: Thanks to Joaquin Cabrerizo Egea.
• Swedish: Thaks to @MagerValp.

A complete list of changes between 7.1.2 and 7.2.0 is here: https://github.com/munki/munki/compare/v7.1.2...v7.2.0