With the public beta of macOS 14 Sonoma due for imminent release, you may be tempted to try it out. Here are tips to help you avoid disaster.
macOS 14
So is macOS slowly merging with iOS, and are our Macs going to be locked down, so they can only run notarized apps?
How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
Apple uses the term ‘deprecation’ to warn developers that a feature in the API is going away, but seldom indicates the timescale. This causes problems.
So how can a VM of 119.6 GB fit in a 100 GB container? How sparse files can make VMs and disk images smaller on disk.
For working with document versions, managing sparse bundles, benchmarking disk performance, checking TCC privacy protection, and looking up UTIs.
Although these VMs are fast and even support Rosetta 2, they do have significant disadvantages, as detailed here.
What is going to change in notarization and code signing? Will sandboxing be required? How does this affect privacy controls?
Updates: Alifix 1.3, Apfelstrudel 1.5, DelightEd 2.1, Dystextia 1.8, Nalaprop 1.2 and Podofyllin 1.2
Refresh Finder Aliases, explore Unicode normalisation, create rich Rich Text Documents, obfuscate text with Unicode, parse multilingual text, and view and analyse PDF documents.
Adds support for Sonoma, and removes precautions to deal with broken updates from Content Caching servers.
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