hoakley August 11, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has just released Big Sur 11.5.2 update

Apple has just released the update to bring Big Sur to version 11.5.2. Once again, this is a substantial update, weighing in at around 2.5 GB for Intel Macs, and 3.45 GB for M1 models.

It hasn’t produced any release notes (yet), other than to state that this “includes bug fixes”. There are no references to any security fixes, nor to any security release notes. This doesn’t appear to be linked to any Security Updates to Mojave or Catalina.

I will shortly be publishing a detailed analysis of what has changed in this update. Although it isn’t a great deal, there do appear to be some significant changes, mainly in frameworks rather than apps themselves.

Updated 2100 11 August 2021.

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Norm on August 11, 2021 at 5:54 pm

Apple never provides detailed release notes, so you can wait a long time. I am surprised they even admit to doing bug fixes. In Apple World there are no bugs. Apple software has no bugs. Only undocumented fearures.

The releases notes are generally vague and generic. So expect “The 11.5.2 update improves the operation and security of your Mac and is recommended for all users”

Also since the 11.5.1 update was never fed to public beta testers, this one probably wasn’t tested by users in the public beta program. Maybe the developers had a look at it ?

I had to leave the Catalina Public Beta Program just to get 11.5.1 and haven’t rejoined. Cannot rejoin the Catalina program, I have to join the Monterey public beta program.

Apple never tells public beta testers any of this. Is the Catalina beta program over? Who knows.

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  hoakley on August 11, 2021 at 10:14 pm
  
  Thank you.
  Apple did provide very detailed release notes at one time. I know because I’ve been analysing and reporting on its system updates since the early 1990s. However, in recent years it abandoned that. Most recently, it had been improving again, with quite informative if incomplete lists, additional notes for system administrators, and extensive security release notes.
  This update has none of them.
  All the indications are that 11.5 is the last ‘minor’ update to Big Sur, and 11.5.2 is the last set of bug fixes before it’s put into security updates only. I don’t think that Apple has made any Big Sur ‘patch’ updates available as betas – they’re supposed to be minor fixes after all, a bit like what used to be Supplemental Updates, which were also never put out in betas.
  Howard.
  
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Michael Tsai - Blog - macOS 11.5.2 on August 11, 2021 at 8:04 pm

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Andrew Reilly on August 12, 2021 at 1:57 am

Bug fixes are good though. Apple should be roundly applauded for releasing them, whatever it is that they fix.

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  hoakley on August 12, 2021 at 6:00 am
  
  Sure, but
  “whatever it is that they fix”
  Really whatever?
  Howard.
  
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