Installers, Code Signing & Auto-Updates
Signed installers for Windows, macOS and Linux, automatic updates with staged rollout and rollback, and a CI pipeline that produces all of it from a tagged commit.
Shipping is part of the product. An app that triggers SmartScreen warnings, gets blocked by Gatekeeper, or can’t update itself costs support time on every release. Windows. MSIX gives clean install and uninstall, differential updates and a strong package identity, but it has constraints around drivers, some services and certain shell extensions. MSI packages built with the WiX Toolset remain the better choice for many enterprise deployments managed through Intune or Group Policy, and for installers that register services. I sign every binary and installer with Authenticode, timestamp each…