Announcing macFUSE 5.0.1

Announcing macFUSE 5.0.1 Posted on 15 May 2025

Download macFUSE 5.0.1 macOS 11 to 15 Apple Silicon or Intel SHA-256: 8c0a65aba7c1937e6902f876295d6b9e27a6ce3675077763e51e9f4f76f8c11d

Update uninstaller for macFUSE 5
Update build script and add target build options --no-default and --no-inherit

Fix an issue that could cause a crash of the file system process on failed mount attempts

When mounting a volume, the file system process expects to receive a socket handle for exchanging FUSE messages. Sending the mount status code without sending a socket handle first, can result in a crash. This issue only affected the FSKit backend. For details, see macfuse/macfuse#1071.
Address an issue that could result in the file system extension not being listed in System Settings

In some cases PluginKit fails to discover the file system extension automatically. As a workaround we register the extension explicitly. This issue only affected the FSKit backend. For details, see macfuse/macfuse#1071.
Optimize the service that is responsible for brokering connections between the file system extension and file system server processes