After two unscheduled updates to Sonoma, neither has been released as an RSR. Has Apple given up with its new lightweight macOS updates?
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When Sonoma is released in the next month or two, Apple will be able to release RSRs for two versions of macOS. What will it do?
Opening the settings runs a partial check for updates, but omits important updates, and almost immediately loses its help button.
Two RSRs in two days! What went wrong with the first on 10 July, and why it would have been anticipated, and was entirely preventable.
Apple has just released a further attempt at its second Rapid Security Response (RSR) for macOS Ventura. To […]
Apple has just released a second Rapid Security Response (RSR) for macOS Ventura. To install this, your Mac […]
How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
Eighteen updates in just a few days. Here’s what’s going on with them, why Apple couldn’t use an RSR, and where we’re headed next.
Full listings of each version of macOS and update installed on that Mac, now includes RSRs. A mine of information.
We should have expected Apple to remain silent about what the RSR does. But ruining its own clean and logical version numbering system was unexpected.
The Eclectic Light Company 