How SilentKnight came about, and how it knows – most of the time – which version of XProtect and other security data your Mac should be using.
Category Archive: Macs
Has Apple inadvertently released the full installer for macOS Sequoia 15.7.5? It’s only available as a full installer, not an update, but it’s real.
Overnight, Apple released an update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5332. As usual, it doesn’t release information […]
What to do when you know there’s an update available, but Software Update pretends that it can’t find it. With details of undocumented options for softwareupdate command and more.
Apple has released an update to macOS Tahoe bringing it to version 26.3.1. This adds support for its […]
If you are testing beta-releases of macOS 26.4 Tahoe on Apple silicon Macs, please use this new build of SilentKnight, version 2.12 build 61, as it shouldn’t crash.
Software update was completely redesigned for Big Sur, using finite state machines to enable reliable, flexible and robust updates to be applied to macOS. These are documented in log entries made during an update.
Safe mode is claimed to do 3 things: block 3rd party extensions, clear caches, and check your startup disk. But what disk checks does it really make, and how are they different?
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 349. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A snack […]
How macOS 26.2 updated to 26.3, variation in download sizes, how macOS works out free space requirements to proceed with the update, and its sequence of stages run by a finite state machine.
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