v0.2.4

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks software. Shows every
plugin, tool and Companion module, what you have installed and what
has an update, and installs each one in whichever formats you use —
under Video, Audio, and Networking & Infrastructure.

Using it is entirely optional — everything in it is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume,
applications, VST3 plugins and Companion modules install normally;
OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on Windows in
this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

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What has not been tested: nothing has yet been installed into a
running Resolume, Resolve, After Effects or DAW through the app, no
application into a real Applications folder, and no module into a real
Companion. The install path is verified against real downloads and
against temporary folders — including a real disk image, mounted,
installed and removed again — but the last step is not. Try it
somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you nothing, and please
report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.2.3...v0.2.4

v0.2.3

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks software. Shows every
plugin, tool and Companion module, what you have installed and what
has an update, and installs each one in whichever formats you use —
under Video, Audio, and Networking & Infrastructure.

Using it is entirely optional — everything in it is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume,
applications, VST3 plugins and Companion modules install normally;
OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on Windows in
this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

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What has not been tested: nothing has yet been installed into a
running Resolume, Resolve, After Effects or DAW through the app, no
application into a real Applications folder, and no module into a real
Companion. The install path is verified against real downloads and
against temporary folders — including a real disk image, mounted,
installed and removed again — but the last step is not. Try it
somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you nothing, and please
report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.2.3

v0.2.2

New in v0.2.2 — paths are shown with ~ instead of your account name. Settings listed each destination as its real path, so /Users/<you>/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 sat on screen beside six others like it, and the notes after an install did the same. This app asks people for screenshots; it should not put their account name in every one. The exact path is still what gets written to and what Show reveals in Finder.

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An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks software. Shows every
plugin, tool and Companion module, what you have installed and what
has an update, and installs each one in whichever formats you use —
under Video, Audio, and Networking & Infrastructure.

Using it is entirely optional — everything in it is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume,
applications, VST3 plugins and Companion modules install normally;
OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on Windows in
this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

What has not been tested: nothing has yet been installed into a
running Resolume, Resolve, After Effects or DAW through the app, no
application into a real Applications folder, and no module into a real
Companion. The install path is verified against real downloads and
against temporary folders — including a real disk image, mounted,
installed and removed again — but the last step is not. Try it
somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you nothing, and please
report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

v0.2.1

New in v0.2.1 — every row says how far along the project is. Beside the version: Field proven, Field testing, Released, In development — the same status the website gives that project, in the same words, with the website's own sentence as the tooltip. The vocabulary is sent in the catalogue rather than written into the app, so the two cannot come to describe a project differently.

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An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks software. Shows every
plugin, tool and Companion module, what you have installed and what
has an update, and installs each one in whichever formats you use —
under Video, Audio, and Networking & Infrastructure.

Using it is entirely optional — everything in it is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume,
applications, VST3 plugins and Companion modules install normally;
OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on Windows in
this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

What has not been tested: nothing has yet been installed into a
running Resolume, Resolve, After Effects or DAW through the app, no
application into a real Applications folder, and no module into a real
Companion. The install path is verified against real downloads and
against temporary folders — including a real disk image, mounted,
installed and removed again — but the last step is not. Try it
somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you nothing, and please
report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

v0.2.0

Burrow was the video plugin installer. It now covers the rest of the fleet on the same terms, under four tabs — Video, Audio, Networking & Infrastructure, and a Device firmware tab that says coming soon and means it. The catalogue goes from 24 entries to 65.

Four formats join the three: VST3, Audio Unit, Application and Companion module. None of them can ask for a password, and that is a decision rather than a coincidence — the privileged helper's whitelist is untouched by this release. /Applications is drwxrwxr-x root:admin, so an administrator writes to it directly and a standard user gets ~/Applications, which Spotlight and Launchpad index identically.

Companion modules sit on the row of the tool they drive. SimpleCue's row offers SimpleCue's module; srt-router's offers srt-router's. Companion has no fixed modules folder — it reads the one you name in Settings → Developer modules path — so Burrow installs into Documents/Companion Modules unless you point it somewhere else, and says so after installing. Restart Companion afterwards; it reads that folder once, at startup.

Applications install from their disk image. Mounted with -nobrowse on a mount point of Burrow's own choosing, one top-level .app taken, detached again whichever way the copy goes.

Audio plugins install as VST3 and Audio Unit, into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins, from the one archive that carries both.

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Three things this release got right only because they were checked rather than assumed:

• The .zip beside an application's .dmg is not the application. Reading the central directory of every one of them over range requests found nine holding a .app and two holding a command-line binary, with nothing in the filename to tell them apart.
• Skipping symlinks quietly breaks every Electron app. The macOS framework layout is symlinks, and a .app copied without them is not an imperfect copy — it is an application that does not launch, silently. They are now recreated when they point inside the payload and refused when they point outside it.
• An artefact whose payload names nothing has probed is offered, not reported as no build for your machine. Left as it was, all 41 new entries would have said that while sitting beside a perfectly good download.

Settings gains a migration: a file written before this release said defaultFormats: ["ffgl"], which meant everything that needs no password when it was written and would silently have meant no audio plugins and no applications now.

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What has not been tested: nothing has yet been installed into a running Resolume, Resolve, After Effects or DAW through the app, no application into a real Applications folder, and no Companion module into a real Companion. The install path is verified against real downloads and temporary folders — including a real disk image, mounted, installed, read back at the right version and removed again — but the last step is not.

The new entries carry no release notes yet. The script that collects them is still plugins-only, so What's new is quiet about the applications, audio plugins and Companion modules, and offers no previous versions for them. They install and update correctly.

The user guide covers the tabs, Companion modules, where applications go, and why OpenFX installs are the ones that ask for a password.

v0.1.3

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks video plugins. Shows
every plugin, what you have installed and what has an update, and
installs each one in whichever formats you use.

Using it is entirely optional — every plugin is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume install
normally; OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on
Windows in this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

This is a first release, and one thing has not been tested: no
plugin has yet been installed into a running Resolume, Resolve or
After Effects through the app. The install path is verified against
real plugin downloads and against temporary folders, but the last step
is not. Try it somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you
nothing, and please report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

v0.1.2

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks video plugins. Shows
every plugin, what you have installed and what has an update, and
installs each one in whichever formats you use.

Using it is entirely optional — every plugin is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume install
normally; OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on
Windows in this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

This is a first release, and one thing has not been tested: no
plugin has yet been installed into a running Resolume, Resolve or
After Effects through the app. The install path is verified against
real plugin downloads and against temporary folders, but the last step
is not. Try it somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you
nothing, and please report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

Videos for the app

The project videos, re-encoded to 720p for playback inside Stoatworks Burrow.

Burrow plays these rather than embedding YouTube, so it talks to nothing beyond
the plugin list and GitHub — no third party, no cookies, no ads. The videos
themselves live on YouTube as well; these are the copies the app streams.

Not a software release. See the v* tags for those.

v0.1.1

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks video plugins. Shows
every plugin, what you have installed and what has an update, and
installs each one in whichever formats you use.

Using it is entirely optional — every plugin is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume install
normally; OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on
Windows in this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

This is a first release, and one thing has not been tested: no
plugin has yet been installed into a running Resolume, Resolve or
After Effects through the app. The install path is verified against
real plugin downloads and against temporary folders, but the last step
is not. Try it somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you
nothing, and please report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

An optional desktop client for the Stoatworks video plugins. Shows
every plugin, what you have installed and what has an update, and
installs each one in whichever formats you use.

Using it is entirely optional — every plugin is still a normal
download from its own release page.

macOS — .dmg to drag it across, or .pkg to install it. Both
architectures.

Windows — -setup.exe, x86_64. FFGL plugins for Resolume install
normally; OpenFX and After Effects installs are not supported on
Windows in this release and Burrow says so rather than half-working.

No Linux build yet. Resolve runs on Linux and OpenFX has a home
there, but no plugin in the fleet ships a Linux artefact — so a Linux
Burrow would have nothing to install. It will arrive with the first
plugin that does.

---

This is a first release, and one thing has not been tested: no
plugin has yet been installed into a running Resolume, Resolve or
After Effects through the app. The install path is verified against
real plugin downloads and against temporary folders, but the last step
is not. Try it somewhere a broken plugin folder would cost you
nothing, and please report anything that
misbehaves.

The user guide
covers what it does, what it sends (almost nothing), and why OpenFX
installs ask for a password.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/stoatworks-labs/burrow/commits/v0.1.0