✨ New

Customer Portal

• User Management: You can now add, update, or remove users. Simply click on your profile, select “Organization,” and then click on the “Add” button. To update or remove an existing user, click on the three-dotted icon next to the user’s name.

• User Roles: A new role “User” has been introduced, which is a read-only user in the Customer Portal. The “Admin” role is the default for all existing users and has the permission to invite others. This Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) system prepares App Catalog for future enhancements.

🛠 Fixed

App Catalog 1.8.2

• A crash when switching between User Mode and Admin Mode should be resolved on macOS 26.2 or higher.

• Sidebar navigation improvements for User Mode and Admin Mode. You’re unlikely to notice this, but things are more robust behind the scenes.

• Minor UI improvements.

We are delighted to announce a redesign of the App Catalog Customer Portal, which has undergone a complete rebuild from the ground up. The new portal utilizes modern frameworks and a new design system, providing a robust foundation. This technology stack serves as the groundwork, enabling us to develop new features in the Customer Portal, which we are really excited about. This initial phase marks the launch of the new portal with feature parity. Subsequently, we will proceed with the development of new features soon.

Most notable structural improvement is that the menu is moved from the top into a collapsable sidebar, which creates more space for future improvements. Other addition in the lower area of the sidebar are important resources, such as links to our documentation, status, support, feedback and roadmap.

🛠 Fixed

• Improvements to keeping app icon images in Catalog App up to date and compatible with apps compiled for macOS 26

• Bug fix related to detecting new app versions in certain circumstances

✨ New

• macOS 26 support: We are pleased to announce support for macOS 26!

• Redesign with Liquid Glass: Catalog App is redesigned with Liquid Glass on macOS 26. All native components adopt the new style and buttons have been refined to use glass.

• Uninstall apps: App Catalog now supports uninstalling apps in Catalog App for end-users and using Catalog Agent for IT administrators. Mandatory apps are respected in Catalog App and users are blocked from uninstalling these apps, or administrators can disable uninstallation for all apps using the DisableAppUninstalls key.

  • More information:

    • https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/catalog-app/uninstalling-apps

    • https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/catalog-agent/uninstalling-apps

    • https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/configuration-and-deployment/configuration-profile/preference-keys-catalog-app#disableappuninstalls

• Header branding: You can now brand Catalog App with an optional header image or color which is presented above the available apps and updates. This key accepts a remote image from URL or one or more colors which result into a gradient effect. The header option is exclusive to macOS 26 and uses Apple’s new background extension effect which shows the image edge to edge and mirrors under the sidebar to avoid clipping content.

  • More information:

    • https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/catalog-app/branding/in-app-branding#header

    • https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/configuration-and-deployment/configuration-profile/preference-keys-catalog-app#header

• New update engine: As previewed in version 1.7.x with IncludeAppsUpdate as opt-in, App Catalog now uses a completely new update engine to detect and handle app updates by default. The new system is much quicker at detecting and installing multiple updates, similar to Catalog App. This transition will also allow us to build new capabilities for the best possible user update experience.

👀 Changed

• The minimum deployment target is now macOS 13 and App Catalog cannot be installed on macOS 12 anymore. Officially App Catalog supports N-2, at this time macOS 14, macOS 15 and macOS 26. macOS 13 should still run but is not tested anymore.

  • More information:

    https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/requirements

⛓️‍💥 Known Issues

• Custom icon in notification unavailable: when using the key CustomAppIcon, the notification icon temporarily does not support custom icons. Due to a code signature error, we are working on a new notification system and reinstate the behaviour as soon as possible.

• Switching between Admin Mode may crash the Catalog App due to a regression in macOS 26.

🛠 Fixed

• An issue is resolved where the Support App is not properly informed about the current state of available updates. When updating apps through Support App or Catalog App (or restarting these), the current state should be reflected immediately in the UI and the Catalog App Dock icon. When taking no action, Support App automatically checks for updates every 8 hours.

🛠 Fixed

• An issue resolved where Catalog Agent could cause a data race and update check loop when Support App is also deployed, resulting in slow connections or sometimes timeouts with the App Catalog web services. Support App might be slower in detecting new updates or completed updates. This will be reinstated in a future update.

We strongly recommend updating to version 1.7.2 as soon as possible if you are using version 1.7.1. You might want to consider using a policy/command in your MDM solution to speed up the process. More information: Installing App Catalog

🛠 Fixed

• An issue resolved where App Catalog could not be updated when IncludeAppsUpdate was specified.

• An issue resolved where Microsoft app updates not handled by Microsoft AutoUpdate, would not be presented to the user as an update in the Catalog App if Microsoft AutoUpdate is configured. Also, those apps are now updated when IncludeAppsUpdate is specified.

✨ New

Update specific apps only: Organizations can now update specific apps only using the autonomous update schedule. A new key IncludeAppsUpdate now allows you configure rules to granularly set an update strategy. This update system also lays the groundwork for how App Catalog handles updates with more exciting features to build on. More information: https://docs.appcatalog.cloud/catalog-agent/updating-apps/updating-specific-apps