Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura and Monterey, bringing them to versions 13.6.7 and 12.7.5. The Sonoma download is around 2.4 GB for Apple silicon Macs, and 1.9 GB for Intel models.

Apple’s brief release notes identify two enhancements in Apple News+, bringing Quartiles, a new word game, and Scoreboard in Puzzles. In its developer notes, Apple states that this should also fix a problem in which users may be unable to approve or decline FaceTime link calls because of a failure in notifications.

Security release notes for 14.5 list 22 vulnerabilities addressed, among them two in AMFI and one in the kernel. Apple doesn’t identify any as being known to be exploited yet. Details of the three fixes in 13.6.7 are here, and of the two in 12.7.5 are here.

There are small firmware updates for some Macs, at least. iBoot is updated to 10151.121.1, and Intel Macs with T2 chips have an iBridge update, bringing their firmware to 2022.100.22.0.0 (iBridge: 21.16.5077.0.0,0).

Safari is updated to version 17.5 (19618.2.12.11.6), and the build number for 14.5 is 23F79.

Later this evening I’ll post a detailed analysis of version changes in bundled apps and /System/Library.

Updated 1850 GMT 13 May 2024.