Analysis of bundle counts in /System/Library and bundled apps from Mojave and Catalina to Golden Gate shows how much they’ve changed over the last 7 years.
Catalina
Some examples of what are often dismissed as ‘cosmetic’ bugs resulting from macOS upgrades, including lasting QuickLook rendering problems, and upside down mirror writing.
Apple has just released security updates for macOS Catalina and Big Sur. Yes, you saw that right, macOS […]
How the number of bundles in /System/Library has risen from Mojave to Sequoia, and why the last 5 years have been so different from the previous 20.
Explanations of how macOS updates work, and their differences between minor updates for Catalina and Sonoma.
Displaying log entries using semantic colour seemed most appropriate using AttributedString, but performs very poorly. The solution is a SwiftUI List view.
Moving away from using the log command tool to obtain log extracts for browsing requires using OSLog. Its API explored and implemented in a demo app.
Which single folder in /System/Library contains the most bundles? Why did the number of kernel extensions in macOS soar from 535 to 788 in less than 2 months?
How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
Now has more nuanced interpretation of potential problems reported by XPR, and displays a simple summary in a separate reporting panel.
