aka v0.1.2

Added

• Documentation at aka.visvesh.dev, with search, and plain-text versions for coding agents at /llms.txt.
• A shorter install command: curl -fsSL https://aka.visvesh.dev/install.sh | sh.

Changed

• aka is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Release archives include the licence.

Install

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://aka.visvesh.dev/install.sh | AKA_VERSION=v0.1.2 sh

Windows: download aka_0.1.2_windows_amd64.zip (or arm64) below and put aka.exe on your PATH.

With Go: go install github.com/visveshkhanna/aka/cmd/aka@v0.1.2

Every archive is listed in checksums.txt, and its build provenance can be checked with gh attestation verify <file> --repo visveshkhanna/aka.

aka v0.1.1

Fixed

• aka --version, aka doctor and the MCP server report the release version for binaries built with go install, instead of dev.

Install

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/visveshkhanna/aka/main/install.sh | AKA_VERSION=v0.1.1 sh

Windows: download aka_0.1.1_windows_amd64.zip (or arm64) below and put aka.exe on your PATH.

With Go: go install github.com/visveshkhanna/aka/cmd/aka@v0.1.1

Every archive is listed in checksums.txt, and its build provenance can be checked with gh attestation verify <file> --repo visveshkhanna/aka.

aka v0.1.0

The first release.

Added

• aka <name> <command> gives any dev server a stable https://<name>.localhost URL, passing a free port through PORT.
• Port detection that follows apps which ignore PORT, through their listening sockets and printed URLs.
• Presets that set the port for about 30 dev servers, including Angular, Vite, Django, uvicorn, Rails, Laravel, Spring Boot and ASP.NET, looking through wrappers such as npx, uv run and npm run. Your own go in ~/.aka/presets.json.
• A bare aka that finds and runs the project's dev command across about 15 ecosystems, and infers the app name.
• Worktree names: in a git worktree, the branch becomes a prefix, as in login.shop.localhost.
• aka.toml and aka up to run several apps together, aka compose for Docker Compose services, and aka alias for ports aka did not start.
• HTTPS with HTTP/2 from a local certificate authority that can only sign .localhost and loopback names, with aka trust and aka untrust for macOS, Linux, Windows and NSS trust stores.
• sudo aka proxy start to serve port 443, dropping root after binding.
• aka doctor, and hints in the app's terminal when Django, Vite, Rails, webpack-dev-server or ASP.NET reject the .localhost host.
• aka mcp, a Model Context Protocol server for coding agents.
• aka service install to start the proxy at login with launchd, systemd or the Windows Run key.
• aka list --json for scripts.
• Static binaries for macOS, Linux and Windows on x64 and arm64, and 32-bit ARM Linux.

Install

macOS and Linux:

curl -fsSL https://aka.visvesh.dev/install.sh | AKA_VERSION=v0.1.0 sh

Windows: download aka_0.1.0_windows_amd64.zip (or arm64) below and put aka.exe on your PATH.

With Go: go install github.com/visveshkhanna/aka/cmd/aka@v0.1.0

Every archive is listed in checksums.txt, and its build provenance can be checked with gh attestation verify <file> --repo visveshkhanna/aka.