Although primarily for compatibility with Tahoe, these include a general refresh and are recommended for all versions of macOS from Big Sur onwards.
SystHist
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.
Sequoia doesn’t use previous tools to update and maintain XProtect, so causes havoc with apps like Skint and SilentKnight. Two updates should help.
SystHist reveals full details of all macOS installations and updates, plus security updates. New version works with Sonoma, as well as reporting RSRs.
Full listings of each version of macOS and update installed on that Mac, now includes RSRs. A mine of information.
Strongly recommended for all running macOS Catalina and later, these now work fully with XProtect Remediator, showing its current version, updates, etc.
Although intended primarily for anyone running Ventura or using an M2 Mac, they should be good for all users.
What’s normal for patterns of security data and macOS updates? How to recognise the pathological, which could reflect a security failure.
Some are reporting that recent MRT updates have been installed 15 times. If your Mac affected? Does it keep installing the same security data updates?
Before Catalina, each macOS update wrote a full transcript of all it installed to a BoM file, which you can inspect. That stopped, without any substitute.
