Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has just released its weekly update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version 5314. As usual, Apple doesn’t release information about what security issues this update might add or change.

This version brings no changes in its text data files, specifically its Yara rules. Wondering if I might be missing something, I have also compared the general release XProtect files with those for Sequoia and Tahoe (delivered by iCloud), and they are identical too.

You can check whether this update has been installed by opening System Information via About This Mac, and selecting the Installations item under Software.

A full listing of security data file versions is given by SilentKnight and SystHist for El Capitan to Tahoe available from their product page. If your Mac hasn’t yet installed this update, you can force it using SilentKnight or at the command line.

If you want to install this as a named update in SilentKnight, its label is XProtectPlistConfigData_10_15-5314

Sequoia and Tahoe systems only

This update has already been released for Sequoia and Tahoe via iCloud. If you want to check it manually, use the Terminal command
sudo xprotect check
then enter your admin password. If that returns version 5314 but your Mac still reports an older version is installed, you may be able to force the update using
sudo xprotect update