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Dockwave 0.1.0-beta.1

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@Rommel96 Rommel96 released this 09 Sep 14:12
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v0.1.0-beta.1
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First packaged build of Dockwave. This is a beta for testing, not a stable release.

What this is

An ultralight native macOS PostgreSQL client. Native GPUI interface, database work on its own runtime, never on the UI thread. Not Electron, not a WebView.

Requirements

  • macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) or later
  • Apple Silicon or Intel — this is a universal binary, one download serves both
  • A PostgreSQL server to connect to

Installing

Dockwave is not signed with a paid Apple Developer ID and is not notarized, so macOS will refuse to open it the first time. That is expected.

  1. Download and unzip the archive.

  2. Drag Dockwave.app to /Applications in Finder. Do this in Finder, not from a terminal — a quarantined app moved with mv gets run by macOS from a read-only temporary copy instead of from where you put it.

  3. Open it. macOS blocks it with:

    "Dockwave" Not Opened
    Apple could not verify "Dockwave" is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.

    The only buttons are Move to Trash and Done. Click Done. There is no "Open Anyway" here — it lives in System Settings, and it only appears after a launch has been blocked, so this step is required rather than redundant.

  4. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll to the bottom. A line about Dockwave being blocked now appears, with an Open Anyway button. Click it.

  5. Confirm in the prompt that reappears.

Once only.

Do not run commands that strip the quarantine attribute. Removing it disables a protection that exists for good reasons, and nothing here needs it.

Verifying the download

shasum -a 256 Dockwave-0.1.0-beta.1-universal.zip
41fbae671d26d41e91d1dcd958c9e45bbfa1293baebda22525ef99ded2926a37

What is deliberately not here

  • No notarization and no Developer ID signature. The signature is ad-hoc. This is a decision, not an oversight — it is why step 4 above exists.
  • No auto-update. New versions mean downloading again.
  • No website yet. dockwave.dev is not serving anything.

Where your report is most useful

Some paths in this build have never been exercised on real hardware, so if any of these describe you, your feedback is worth more than most:

  • You are on an Intel Mac. The x86_64 slice compiles and launches under translation on a development machine, but it has never run natively on real Intel hardware.
  • You are on macOS 11, 12 or 13. The bundle declares 11.0 as its floor, but it has only ever been run on macOS 26. If it refuses to launch, that is exactly the thing worth knowing.
  • You already had Dockwave data from a local build. Profiles and Keychain secrets are addressed by the bundle identifier, and that this installed build reads them correctly has not been confirmed against a real prior install.

Report anything at Issues. Please include your macOS version, Apple Silicon or Intel, and your PostgreSQL server version.

Terms

Free to download and run, personal or commercial, on machines you own or control. No rights over the source, which is not published. Full terms ship inside the app at Dockwave.app/Contents/Resources/LICENSE, and third-party notices at Contents/Resources/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

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