How it checks whether your Mac’s firmware and security protection are current, and screens for major security issues.
Software Update
Neither its man page or usage information are complete or correct. Here’s how to check for available updates and install them using softwareupdate.
Opening the settings runs a partial check for updates, but omits important updates, and almost immediately loses its help button.
When you know an update has been released, but your Mac can’t find it, or you try to install the update but it fails with an error.
How to get prompt security data updates, RSRs, macOS updates, App Store updates, and those for third-party apps distributed independently.
Three phases of updating, download, preparation and installation, are now fully integrated. They also involve updating Cryptexes, as revealed in the log.
How Ventura 13.0.1 played hard to get for some, and ongoing problems successfully installing security data updates make for the fortnightly nightmare.
How to use SilentKnight to download and install two security data updates without updating macOS. Explains its settings in full, and how the app works.
New version for Catalina and later lets you remove the Install All Updates button to prevent error, and works around bugs in Content Caching servers.
Not everyone who upgraded to Ventura last week did so intentionally. Here’s why, and how SilentKnight had a part to play, which will be fixed shortly.
The Eclectic Light Company 