Apple still supports Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan and Sierra in Xcode, but the next version intends dropping them. Third-party developers will get the blame.
Ventura
Intended to counter hardware exploits, such as the checkm8 exploit of T2 chips and Thunderspy for Thunderbolt 3, this should prove valuable protection.
Extensive checks on security data and settings from the command line. An important update, particularly for macOS 10.15 and later, and Apple silicon Macs.
Many apps need helpers, usually run as LaunchAgents, LaunchDaemons or LoginItems. After introductory explanation of how these work, this explains how it changes in Ventura.
So macOS is being swallowed up into iOS? Haven’t you forgotten how iPadOS is trying to establish itself the middle ground between them?
Is macOS going to be like iOS? Not in Ventura, where notarization is improved with additional security checks. Here are the details.
The first update to Apple’s new security software delivered outside a macOS update brings a leap in version number suggesting it’s now fully activated in Monterey and later.
How could Ventura apply security patches to itself while still running, and not require a restart? Here’s what is likely to happen.
MRT’s days appear numbered. On 14 March this year, Apple released its successor – a new version of XProtect, which now does the lot.
Ventura can use Rosetta 2 to translate Intel binaries inside an ARM-native virtualised Linux. The impact and importance of this is explained.
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