Ughhhhh pain. This is most likely because of the new bridgeOS (T2/iBridge) update that shipped with macOS 13.
It’s affecting macOS 12 (and probably 11) as well because bridgeOS actually exists completely separately from macOS, and can be independently updated as a result.
I’ll update the documentation to accommodate the new bridgeOS update soon.
(Also, uh… there’s quite a significant amount of identifying information in your screenshot. You might want to obscure it.)
Ah, got your second email. I managed to find your original email too — it got erroneously mixed into the BinaryAge forum notification email thread, so I didn’t see it the first time around. Sorry about that!
(Your email client added In-Reply-To and References header fields that were referencing this thread for some reason.)
Giving ETAs is a bit difficult, unfortunately — there’s too many factors.
Hopefully a beta release will be available in about 3 or 4 weeks, but that number is really just a made-up vague target that I would like to hit — it’s not at all based on anything.
By “background process”, are you referring to TotalFinder.app?