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The course so far

Covo keeps one promise above the rest: simple enough to use every day, careful enough to never break your Mac. Here's what has shipped and what's next.

  1. Shipped

    Core

    • Sites from any folder over trusted HTTPS
    • PHP 5.6 to 8.5, side by side
    • MySQL 8.4, Mailpit, Adminer, Xdebug
    • CLI with --json for every command
    • Signed component updates with rollback

  2. Shipped

    The app

    • One window: sites on the left, details on the right
    • Menu bar with every site
    • Nested groups, archive, duplicate
    • MAMP PRO import

  3. Shipped

    Before the beta

    • Laravel: detection, covo laravel, Composer and Artisan
    • PostgreSQL 18 and Redis 8
    • Open on phone with a QR code
    • Import from Local, Herd, Valet and XAMPP, with database migration
    • Snapshots of files and database
    • Pull from production, push to staging
    • WordPress blueprints
    • AI agent workbench: sessions, what changed, keep or undo

  4. Sailing now

    Public beta

    • Signed and notarized app
    • In-app updates
    • Homebrew tap
    • Source code public on GitHub

  5. On the horizon

    After the beta

    • Our own reproducible builds of every binary, with an SBOM
    • Apache and Nginx, for .htaccess parity
    • A modern privileged helper for the signed app
    • Security advisories for the PHP versions your sites use

Not on the map

Covo stays a PHP tool. Node, Python and other runtime managers, dozens of optional modules, or anything that needs Docker are out on purpose. Windows and Linux may come after the beta, if ever. Have an idea? Start a discussion.