v0.5.5 (Unsigned prerelease)

What's new in v0.5.5

Workbench UI redesign: animated stepper, denser device cards, switch toggles, keyboard-focus guarantees, Windows High Contrast support, and accessibility fixes.

Ships Beamo Flasher and Beamo Pi per-app installers plus combined suite installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and the bflash CLI.

This prerelease is intentionally unsigned. macOS Gatekeeper and Windows SmartScreen will warn before installation.

macOS Installer Artifacts

• build architecture: arm64
• Primary installer (DMG):
  • status: present
  • file: Beamo-Flasher-Installer.dmg
• Secondary installer (PKG):
  • status: present
  • file: Beamo-Flasher-0.5.5-arm64.pkg
• Electron update metadata package (ZIP):
  • status: present
  • file: Beamo-Flasher-0.5.5-arm64-mac.zip

Install (Normal macOS flow)

1. Download the latest .dmg from this release.
2. Open the disk image and drag the app into Applications.
3. Launch Beamo Flasher from Launchpad or /Applications.

Assisted In-App Updates

• The app checks for a newer release at startup and every hour.
• When an update is available, review the notes, download the checksum-verified PKG in the app, then choose Install & Restart to open macOS Installer.
• The ZIP and latest-mac.yml remain published as release metadata, but unsigned/ad-hoc builds are not silently replaced in place.

Hosted Raspberry Pi OS Image

• The installer does not bundle the 1.9 GB rpi.img.xz image.
• On first launch, the app resolves the hosted image URL from the bootstrap manifest, downloads rpi.img.xz, and verifies the SHA-256 checksum before flashing.
• The same hosted image source is used by macOS, Windows, and Linux builds.

Build Security Status

• signing: unsigned
• notarization: skipped

Unsigned build warning: Gatekeeper may require right-click -> Open on first launch unless signing/notarization is configured.