balenaEtcher 1.18.8 download the new version for windows

Essentially, their new tools run your installer in a sandbox and package the file system diff as an app I am not entirely sure of the specifics of its privileges at runtime, though.

Here are some resources I found on the topic (new things may have been published since I found these):ĭesktop apps are now being allowed more broadly into the Windows Store, and I see no reason that Etcher wouldn't be technically functional if packaged with their new tools. Apps ranging from Slack (which is really just their website in an Electron frame) to lower-down system utilities have been demonstrated to work, and they show up with a new privilege level which is essentially 'do whatever it wants.' Even the desktop app which allows you to package desktop apps is in the Store, and it's a CLI 😆 You can see the docs page here. I think it would be interesting to pursue packaging Etcher for the Store, because with that comes the ability for one-click installation and automatic updates (not to mention the inherent trust which comes from downloading an app from the Store). I'd imagine that it wouldn't react well to apps attempting to run VBScript or access drive hardware as Etcher does, but it's always a possibility.

I don't know much about the restrictions put in place by their UWP sandbox, but I suspect that there's much more than just the registry and certain file system locations as their documentation mentions. Tools have been developed expressly for the purpose of packaging Electron apps with this new technology, so theoretically this opens the door for Etcher to be published to the Store. Packages produced in this way go through the standard Store ingestion process and contain raw win32 executable bits, however at run-time the system launches the app in a sandbox with certain virtualized resources (e.g. With Project Centennial, Microsoft introduced the ability to package standard win32 apps as AppX packages which could be published to the Windows Store.

BalenaEtcher 1.18.8 download the new version for windows