AirPort Utility 0.1.0 beta 3
Pre-release
Pre-release
Everything below has landed since 0.1.0 beta 2. With this release, every feature from the original project vision has shipped.
Highlights
- Sites — save a named connection (Home, Office, a parents' house) and switch back to it later, instead of waiting for Bonjour to rediscover it or retyping its address. Each site remembers a Bonjour stable identity (self-healing against DHCP address changes on the same network) and a last-known address as a fallback for reconnecting from elsewhere.
- Recovery mode — when a restart, firmware install, or configuration write doesn't come back cleanly, a "Recovery" card on the Dashboard replaces the old bare status message with a clear next step: restore the most recent known-good settings (across Configuration History and Automatic Backups), or, as a last resort, the honest physical hard-reset procedure. This project has no access to a real recovery protocol, so it's a guided reaction to known failure points, not a new networking capability.
- Fixed: Configuration History and Automatic Backups were showing every connected device's history mixed together in the Dashboard; both now correctly filter to the currently-connected host.
Install
- Download AirPort-Utility-0.1.0-beta.3-macos.zip.
- Verify its SHA-256 checksum if desired.
- Unzip it and move AirPort Utility.app to Applications.
- Open the app. Because this beta is ad-hoc signed rather than notarized, macOS may require you to Control-click the app, choose Open, and confirm the first launch.
Requirements
- macOS 13 or newer, Apple Silicon
- Network access to the AirPort base station and its administrator password
- No system
python3required — the backend ships self-contained inside the app
See the README for full feature documentation and the roadmap for what's next.