Flowlight 0.2.8

What's new in 0.2.8

• Worth a look, in Reports. A new view that compares the apps in the report with each other and points at the ones whose destinations don't look like the rest: talking to far more places than its peers, addresses that never resolved to a name, hostnames that look generated rather than chosen, sending much more than it receives, and protocols that are a sideline rather than the app's purpose. Each finding shows the evidence behind it, and clicking one narrows the report to that app.

  It's called Worth a look, not Suspicious, on purpose. What the data supports is "unusual compared with the other apps here" — a backup tool talks to a lot of places for good reasons. The panel says so rather than implying a verdict it can't reach.

• Two corrections to that analysis before it shipped. A row records every protocol seen on it against a single byte total, and charging that total to each one made an app's protocol shares add up to more than its traffic — enough to hide a real finding behind a category the app hadn't earned. And the panel drew on the rows already loaded for the table, which stop at ten thousand; an app past that cap was silently never considered, on exactly the busy machines where it would matter most. It now asks for every app's destinations on their own.

• A tidier Alerts toolbar. A rule picker, a checkbox and two buttons crowded into one row have become two menus: one for what's listed, one for marking things seen.

• The website now matches the app. Worth a look, running in the background, the Capture view and searching inside bodies are all documented, and the count of recognised LLM providers is right (24, not 25).

Install

Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

• brew install --cask xinbetween/tap/flowlight
• Flowlight.dmg — drag to Applications.
• Flowlight-0.2.8.pkg — installs to /Applications; offers to quit a running copy first.

macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.

Checksums

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