If you’re running any version of SilentKnight before 2.10, you need to update it now for compatibility with Catalina and later, particularly for Sequoia. And there are more essential updates too.
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If you want to update or install macOS differently from what is offered in Software Update, here are the options, and what each is best for.
Exactly what is the disk shown in the Finder named Macintosh HD, in Big Sur and later versions of macOS? An exploration of the structure of the modern boot disk.
At first, I thought the new XProtect version should be 5272, but some updated without that version changing. Then I stumbled across a secret way to update. Not a good omen for the release of Sequoia.
How SilentKnight can install macOS updates, up to a point, and how you can recover from an inadvertent download of a macOS update.
One cause of an app crashing as soon as it’s launched, these constraints prevent you from running bundled apps copied elsewhere, and can now be used by third-party apps.
Why disable the whole of SIP when all you need is to disable some of its features? Here are all the options explained, and how to combine them.
Sonoma 14.4 added support for exclaves and conclaves, which are used in Sequoia’s virtual machines. What is an exclave, and what does it add?
After a batch of new MacBook Pros were delivered with SIP disabled: LockRattler (December 2016), EFIcienC then SilentKnight (July 2019), and here’s what version 3 should look like.
While other Macs had happily updated XProtect’s data in the normal way, my Sequoia beta system told me it was out of date, and refused to find an updater. Then I recalled an old tweet.
The Eclectic Light Company 