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Fix Wispr Flow FMA bundle ownership after install - #54708
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Wispr Flow's Squirrel.Mac updater can't write to a root-owned app bundle, so it repeatedly prompts the user for admin credentials. The custom install script now chowns the installed bundle to the console user after copying it into /Applications, same pattern already used for the Claude FMA.
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WalkthroughThe Wispr Flow installer now replaces the app bundle and restores the previous bundle if copying fails. It assigns ownership and write permission to an eligible user when available. It tracks whether the app was running and relaunches it when an eligible GUI user exists. The Homebrew input and Darwin output records reference the installer. A changelog entry describes the reported ownership issue. Priority: ➖ Normal Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A failed copy could install an incomplete app, and an install between user sessions could give the wrong account write access. Ownership failures can still leave updates blocked while installation succeeds. Resolve these risks before merging.
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- Around line 55-57: Update the quit-failure branch to return a failure status,
and update its caller to stop before moving or replacing the bundle when the
quit loop times out; preserve the existing replacement flow when Wispr Flow
quits successfully.
- Line 106: Check the status of the `cp -R` from `MOUNT_POINT` to `TMPDIR`
before continuing to quit or move the installed app. If the copy fails, detach
the disk image and exit without replacing the existing installation or reporting
success.
- Line 127: Update the `target_user` selection in the installer to identify the
intended console user with an active GUI session instead of using
`lastUserName`; only assign the app bundle to that eligible user, and keep it
root-owned when no eligible console user exists.
Review comments at @ee/maintained-apps/outputs/wispr-flow/darwin.json:
- Line 20: Update the ownership block before `relaunch_application` to check the
results of both `sudo chown` and `sudo chmod`. If either fails, stop the script
and report installation failure; only log that ownership was assigned after both
commands succeed.
- Line 20: Update the target_user validation before the chown command to reject
_mbsetupuser even when it comes from the lastUserName fallback and resolves via
id; only assign ownership to a valid, non-root, non-setup user.
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Reject _mbsetupuser even when it comes from the lastUserName fallback, and only log that ownership was assigned when chown and chmod both succeed.
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- Line 21: Update the application-running check and quit command so both execute
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**Related issue:** N/A # Checklist for submitter - [x] Input data is properly validated, `SELECT *` is avoided, SQL injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell metacharacters. ## Testing - [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually Ran the ownership block with stubbed `stat`/`defaults`/`id`/`sudo` across five cases: console user, console user with `chown` failing, `_mbsetupuser` from the `lastUserName` fallback, a real user from the fallback, and no user. Each produced the expected command and message. `bash -n` passes and `go test ./ee/maintained-apps/...` passes. Not run on a real Mac. ## AI **AI:** Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5) ## Summary Applies two hardening fixes from the Wispr Flow FMA review (#54708) to the Claude FMA's install script, which uses the same ownership step (#51680): - Reject `_mbsetupuser` after the `lastUserName` fallback, not only when it's the console user, so the bundle is never assigned to the Setup Assistant account. - Only log that ownership was assigned when `chown` succeeds. A failure logs a message but doesn't fail the install: the app is installed correctly, and a root-owned bundle is the behavior before #51680. Regenerated `ee/maintained-apps/outputs/claude/darwin.json` with `go run ./cmd/maintained-apps --slug=claude/darwin`. Only the install script ref changed; the version, queries, and uninstall script are untouched. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved Claude for macOS installation ownership handling. The installer avoids assigning ownership to the system setup account and reports whether ownership was updated. * If ownership cannot be updated, installation continues and Claude prompts the user to resolve the issue. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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**Related issue:** Part of #54170 # Checklist for submitter - [x] Changes file added for user-visible changes in `changes/`, `orbit/changes/` or `ee/fleetd-chrome/changes`. See [Changes files](https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/blob/main/docs/Contributing/guides/committing-changes.md#changes-files) for more information. - [x] Input data is properly validated, `SELECT *` is avoided, SQL injection is prevented (using placeholders for values in statements), JS inline code is prevented especially for url redirects, and untrusted data interpolated into shell scripts/commands is validated against shell metacharacters. - [x] Timeouts are implemented and retries are limited to avoid infinite loops ## Testing - [x] Added/updated automated tests - [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually `TestInstallScriptStopsWhenAppWontQuit` runs generated install scripts (app copy and pkg) in bash with `osascript`, `sudo` and friends stubbed. It covers an app that isn't running, one that quits, one that accepts the quit event but keeps running, and one whose quit is canceled. The last two must exit 1 without copying or installing anything. The test fails against `main` and passes with this change. I also ran each edited custom install script end to end with stubs and a refused quit. All of them exit 1 before replacing the app, except Harmony SASE (see below). Docker Desktop's helper was checked under its `set -euo pipefail` for both outcomes. Not run on a real Mac. ## AI **AI:** Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5) ## Summary When a macOS app won't quit (for example, the user cancels a prompt to save changes), the install script moves it aside anyway, copies the new version in, and exits 0. fleetd then deletes `$TMPDIR`, which takes the moved-aside bundle the app is still running from. Fleet reports the update as installed while the user is still on the old version (#54170). Two problems in `quit_and_track_application` caused this: - It confirmed the quit with `pgrep -f "$bundle_id"`, which never matches because a macOS app's command line is its executable path. So it reported success as soon as the quit event was accepted. - When the app was still running at the timeout, it only logged "did not quit", and the caller carried on. Changes: - The helper now polls `osascript … is running` after each quit attempt and returns 1 at the timeout. This matches the KiCad FMA (#54613). An `is running` error doesn't count as quit. - Generated install scripts call `quit_and_track_application '<id>' || exit 1` before replacing the app, for both app-copy and pkg installs. - Custom install scripts that copy the helper get the same fix. Callers stop the install, and Pd detaches its disk image first. Docker Desktop already stopped on failure (it runs under `set -e`) and only needed the `pgrep` fix. **Harmony SASE** keeps going: its pkg force-quits the app on its own, so stopping would block an update that works today. - The `new-fma` skill now says how custom install scripts should quit the app and that helper copies must be kept in sync. Behavior change: a forced patch whose app won't quit now fails, and it's retried on the next policy run instead of being reported as installed. The yaml-files and REST API docs describe when the install is *attempted* ("whether or not the app is open"), which is still accurate, so they're unchanged. Outputs aren't regenerated here: like #43842 and #42951, the FMA bot picks up the new script refs. The 18 frozen macOS apps keep their current scripts until they're unfrozen. Follow-ups (not in this PR): - 12 custom install scripts have their own `quit_application` helper with the same `pgrep` check and no stop on failure: 1Password, Adobe Creative Cloud, Box Tools, ExpressVPN, Google Chrome, Grammarly, Gyazo, Logi Tune, Microsoft Edge, P4V, Slack, Zoom. Each has its own flow, so they need a per-script look. - The uninstall helper `quit_application` has the same `pgrep` check. It's left unchanged here to avoid churning every uninstall script ref. - #53570 changes the `var_name` line of the same helper, in a separate hunk. The Wispr Flow custom script in #54708 copies the old helper and needs this fix after whichever merges second. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * On macOS, updates now stop if the app being replaced doesn’t quit within the timeout. The running app’s files are preserved, and the update is reported as failed rather than installed. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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**Related issue:** NA Adds Fleet's November 2026 newsletter (`articles/newsletter-2026-11.md`), which covers October 2026. It publishes at `fleetdm.com/newsletters/newsletter-2026-11`. - **Email subject line:** `Fleet news: November 2026` - **Category:** `newsletter`, singular, which the website build accepts (#52120). No website changes are needed. - **Author:** Aube Paul (`robinedev`), matching the September and October issues. ## Open questions for reviewers - **New "📺 Fleet Virtual Summit" section** for the November 10 LinkedIn Live event, placed before workshops. Keep it or fold it into the workshops section. If it stays, it's a new entry in the newsletter's section emoji table. - **The roadmap preview is linked even though November isn't a quarter's first month.** The October preview published October 13, after the October issue went out, so readers haven't seen it in the newsletter yet. - **Article and guide picks are editorial**, not based on traffic numbers. Reorder them if you have analytics. There were no case studies in October. - **The community section has one post, and it's personal.** Henry Stamerjohann's MacSysAdmin talk. Fleet's company-page post about the "Apple in the enterprise" research is another option, but it repeats the research article in "Worth reading." No engagement numbers were available. - **Community contributors with five or more merged PRs in October:** Prajwal Janbandhu (8, in the thank-you line), Michael Alt (6, highlighted), Dhvanit (6, returning, not named), and Shreyash Agare (5, returning, not named). Confirm none of them is a contractor whose account isn't in the org. - **Several first-time contributors only edited the handbook.** None appear in Fleet's Slack, so they stay in the thank-you line. ## How each section was sourced - **Shipped:** the Fleet 4.93.0 and 4.94.0 release articles, cross-checked against tagged releases. The three highlights are macOS patch notifications (Premium), Android zero-touch enrollment (Premium), and self-service configuration profiles (not Premium), so the section isn't all Premium. Patch releases 4.93.1 and 4.93.2 are covered by the "See every release" link. - **Planned:** the release planning board (view 10, filtered to milestone 4.95.0), not the milestone fallback. There are 22 stories, all assigned. 5.0.0 is due December 4, so November holds one release. - **Workshops:** fleetdm.com/workshops, with the next five after the send date. - **Community contributions:** PRs merged in public `fleetdm` repos in October by authors outside the `fleetdm` org, minus bots. ## Left out on purpose - **"Windows: force standard account"** was in the planned section in both September and October and hasn't shipped. It's not on the 4.95.0 board, so it isn't mentioned a third time. - **Multiple versions of the same App Store app** is named in the 4.94.0 release article's title, but the article marks it as moved to 4.95. It's listed under "Also on deck" instead of "shipped." - **Amsterdam workshop (November 3):** past by the time this sends. - **Fleet staff or contractors whose accounts aren't in the org:** @TraiLynne and @thomcrowe. Both are confirmed in Fleet's Slack. - **Other October content:** the warehouse inventory article and Retriever guide, the PHP2Shell and eMudhra pieces, and every `industry news` article. The routine doesn't feature that category. <details> <summary>Suggested <code>~/fleet-newsletters/contributors.tsv</code> lines (append once confirmed)</summary> ``` TraiLynne fleet Trai Lynne Compton, Fleet staff (Slack); not an org member thomcrowe fleet Thom Crowe, Fleet contractor (website); not an org member ``` </details> <details> <summary>Ledger append block: run only after this issue is sent</summary> `~/fleet-newsletters/ledger.jsonl` didn't exist before this issue. Repeats were checked against the September and October issues in the repo instead. This block creates the ledger and records every item in this issue. ```bash mkdir -p ~/fleet-newsletters && cat >> ~/fleet-newsletters/ledger.jsonl <<'EOF' {"issue":"2026-11","section":"shipped","id":"4.93.0"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"shipped","id":"4.94.0"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"51599"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"39176"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"51979"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"53284"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"33062"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"52534"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"planned","id":"47904"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"fleet-virtual-summit-2026"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2003719976388"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2003716644422"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002266719658"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002266872114"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"events","id":"2002267524064"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"apple-in-the-enterprise-2026"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"nvidia-gtc-2026"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"tailworm-what-to-do-about-tailscale-ssh-before-the-fix-ships"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"revert-a-bad-change-in-gitops"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-chrome-extensions"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-edge-extensions"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-firefox-extensions"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"block-safari-extensions"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"use-claude-code-with-fleet"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"articles","id":"roadmap-preview-october-2026"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"social","id":"7513481631123394560"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#50836"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53407"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53670"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53768"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53810"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#53824"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54019"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54181"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54296"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54411"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54502"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54509"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54592"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54685"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54708"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54726"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#54785"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55056"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55058"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55072"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55089"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55097"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55127"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55249"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55266"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55353"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55471"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55492"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55547"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55841"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55900"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55903"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#55946"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56072"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56085"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56148"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56214"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56266"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56287"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56376"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56403"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56486"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56498"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56575"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56596"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56609"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56657"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56708"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56719"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56983"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56984"} {"issue":"2026-11","section":"community","id":"#56985"} EOF ``` </details> ## Testing - [x] Confirmed the markdown passes the website build's metadata checks: required meta tags, ISO `publishedOn`, description at 139 of 150 characters, `category` set to `newsletter`, H1 matching `articleTitle`, and no Vue-template braces. - [x] Verified all 54 fleetdm.com, GitHub, and Eventbrite links return 200. LinkedIn returns 999 to automated requests, so the profile links come from the handbook and the post link was opened in a browser. - [x] Checked the copy against Fleet's content style: no em dashes, sentence-case headings, Oxford commas, and Fleet Premium labels carried through from the release articles. - [ ] QA'd all new/changed functionality manually ## AI **AI:** Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5) --------- Co-authored-by: robinedev <aubedev@outlook.com>
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Summary
Wispr Flow's Squirrel.Mac auto-updater can't write to the app bundle when it's owned by
root(the default after an MDM-pushed install), so it repeatedly prompts the user for admin credentials to fix ownership on every launch/update attempt. This is a known issue documented by Wispr Flow: Wispr Flow keeps prompting for an admin password after updates (macOS, MDM-managed Macs).This replaces the generated install script for the macOS Wispr Flow Fleet-maintained app with a custom
install_script_path(ee/maintained-apps/inputs/homebrew/scripts/wispr-flow_install.sh) that keeps the existing generated install logic and adds a post-install step assigning ownership of/Applications/Wispr Flow.appto the console user, following the same pattern already used for the Claude FMA (claude-install.sh).Regenerated
ee/maintained-apps/outputs/wispr-flow/darwin.jsonvia:Only the
install_script_refcontent changed; version, queries, uninstall script, and sha256 are untouched.Summary by CodeRabbit