Downloads
Every way to get Bowire. Pick what fits your workflow.
Install from a package manager
The fastest path for most developers — NuGet for embedded integrations, the .NET global tool for a standalone CLI, or your platform’s native package manager.
NuGet packages
Every plugin ships as a standalone NuGet package so you install only what you need. All published by Küstenlogik on nuget.org.
Core
Protocol plugins
Third-party plugins
Bowire’s protocol system is open — anyone can ship a plugin against the IBowireProtocol interface and publish it to NuGet. Packages tagged bowire-plugin show up in the discovery feed below. These are community-maintained, not official Küstenlogik releases — audit the source before running them in production.
Want to build one? See the custom protocol guide for the plugin lifecycle and discovery contract.
.NET global tool — standalone CLI + UI
Install once, point at any running server. No code changes to your host app.
$ dotnet tool install -g Kuestenlogik.Bowire.Tool
$ bowire --url https://your-server
Windows package managers Planned
Install the standalone tool through the package manager you already use — no .NET tool chain on the host required.
winget
$ winget install Kuestenlogik.Bowire
Chocolatey
$ choco install bowire
Native installers and portable bundles
Platform-native installers, xcopy-style self-contained bundles, or tagged releases from GitHub — whichever fits how you ship software.
Native installers Planned
Signed MSI for Windows, DEB for Debian / Ubuntu, RPM for Fedora / RHEL / SUSE. For shops that prefer a platform-native install path over the .NET tool chain.
See the roadmap →Self-contained / portable
Zip or tarball per platform with the .NET runtime bundled. Extract, run the bowire binary — no SDK, no installer, no registry entries, no system changes. Perfect for air-gapped networks, USB-stick installs, ephemeral CI runners, or anywhere you want an xcopy deployment.
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bowire-win-x64.zipWindows x64 — unzip, runbowire.exe. -
bowire-linux-x64.tar.gzLinux x64 —tar -xzf, run./bowire/bowire. -
bowire-linux-arm64.tar.gzLinux ARM64 — Raspberry Pi 4+, AWS Graviton, etc. -
bowire-osx-arm64.tar.gzmacOS Apple Silicon (M1+). -
bowire-osx-x64.tar.gzmacOS Intel.
GitHub Releases
Every tagged release is published with changelog, source archive, and all the self-contained bundles listed above. For air-gapped installs, reproducible builds, or when you want to compare release notes.
Browse all releases on GitHubSidecar containers
Drop Bowire next to a non-.NET service as a sidecar — no .NET runtime on the host, one manifest to deploy.
Docker / container Planned
First-class Docker and Kubernetes / Helm images for the sidecar deployment pattern are on the roadmap — so non-.NET teams can drop Bowire next to their Go / Rust / Python / Node service with a single manifest.
See the roadmap →Build from source
Clone the repo, audit the code, fork it, embed it in commercial products.
Source code
Every protocol plugin, the host integration, the CLI — all published on GitHub. Apache 2.0, no strings attached.
Clone on GitHubDocumentation
The complete Bowire documentation, packaged for offline reading — a standalone HTML snapshot you can unzip anywhere and a single-file PDF for printing or archiving. Both are built from the same source as the online docs.
Standalone HTML offline-ready
Unzip, open index.html, browse offline. Same layout as the online docs, minus the marketing site chrome so every outbound link stays self-contained.
PDF single file
Every article in one PDF. Useful for printing, archiving a specific version, or searching the whole reference inside a single reader.
Download bowire-docs.pdfOlder versions are pinned on each tagged release — see github.com/Kuestenlogik/Bowire/releases for bowire-docs-<version>.{zip,pdf} artifacts.