Changelog

What each version of Debris brought, newest first.

A version gathers a body of work rather than going out one change at a time, so this page moves in steps. Between the steps the work is visible on GitHub, in branches and open issues.

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Work between versions gathers on the dev branch, next to the open issues. Up next is a detail panel that explains each listed file.

1.0.1

13 September 2026

A fix release for the Leftovers scan, on GitHub. Four kinds of file were listed although their owner was still on the disk:

• Preferences that a Qt app writes under its own name, such as com.raspberrypi.Raspberry Pi Imager.plist, were graded as a vendor match and listed as possibly left over while the app was installed. The name of an installed app now outranks the vendor. Only the names of apps and Homebrew packages count, not those of the helpers embedded in them, which tend to be called Helper or Widgets.
• Command-line tools installed outside Homebrew, with pip or a downloaded installer, were unknown to the scan, so their folders in ~/.cache, ~/.config and ~/.local/share were listed. Executables in the Homebrew, /usr/local, ~/.local/bin, ~/.cargo/bin, ~/go/bin and ~/bin directories now own the folders that carry their name.
• Apps that ship inside another app's node_modules folder, such as Codex Computer Use inside ChatGPT, were not seen, so their caches and preferences were listed. The folder is now read inside app bundles, for a fraction of a second on a scan.
• The node-gyp cache in ~/Library/Caches was listed as a likely leftover while node was installed. It belongs to node.

1.0

8 September 2026

The first release, on GitHub as a disk image you drag to Applications.

• Leftovers: files that belong to apps you no longer have, grouped by app, each with a reason.
• Uninstall: everything an installed app owns, removed in one go, including files the system owns after an administrator prompt.
• Clean: caches, logs, developer artifacts and installer files, each behind a rule that says what it keeps.
• Rescan in every module, an app icon, and a Full Disk Access banner that explains what it is for.
• Signed with a Developer ID and notarized; everything goes to the Trash, nothing is deleted outright.