X World 2025

Whats new and whats the future for swiftDialog

Four years and over 5 million downloads later, swiftDialog can be found as the basis of Mac deployment scripts, maintenance tasks and notification workflows from individual Mac admins to organisations like Jamf and Microsoft. In this talk, we'll go over what's new in swiftDialog and ideas on how to incorporate new and updated features into your scripted workflows. We'll also discuss future plans for version 3 and beyond.

About the presenter

Bart has worked for the CSIRO for over 23 years and is based in Canberra. Bart currently works for CSIRO’s desktop infrastructure team and leads development for the Mac and Linux Desktop SOE’s, managing 1500 macOS and Linux workstations using JAMF, FleetDM, Munki and other open source tools. He has contributed to Munki, macOSLAPS, Nudge and Outset open source projects, as well as developed swiftDialog using SwiftUI and released as open source to the macadmins community.