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  • macOS Sequoia operating system could see mid-September release

    macOS Sequoia operating system could see mid-September release

    If you’re eager to get your hands on the public release of Apple’s upcoming macOS Sequoia operating system, you might not have that long to wait.

    Per internal documentation obtained by MacRumors, macOS 15.0 Sequoia may be officially released to the public by mid-September. The release dates of major macOS updates in recent years are listed below:

    OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) – October 22, 2013
    OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) – October 16, 2014
    OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) – September 30, 2015
    macOS 10.12 (Sierra) – September 20, 2016
    macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) – September 25, 2017
    macOS 10.14 (Mojave) – September 24, 2018
    macOS 10.15 (Catalina) – October 7, 2019
    macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) – November 12, 2020
    macOS 12.0 (Monterey) – October 25, 2021
    macOS 13.0 (Ventura) – October 24, 2022
    macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) – September 26, 2023

    The release of the operating system could be the earliest since MacOS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), which was released on July 25, 2012.

    The new annual version of iOS has historically always been released at least a week before the new version of macOS. Sometimes, Apple leaves a considerable gap between the releases; in 2020, the company left nearly two months between the release of iOS 14 (September 16, 2020) and macOS Big Sur (November 12, 2020).

    Apple is expected to comment on the macOS Sequoia release at the “It’s Glowtime” press event later today, wherein the company is also set to unveil the ‌iPhone 16‌ lineup, new Apple Watch models, and the fourth-generation AirPods.

    Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via MacRumors

  • Some users report bugs in Safari, other web browsers, following macOS updates

    Some users report bugs in Safari, other web browsers, following macOS updates

    Well, this is kind of a kerfuffle/mess.

    An apparent bug (or series of bugs) found in macOS Big Sur 11.3 and macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 has caused a seemingly random series of website browsing issues in Apple’s Safari 14.1 web browser, alongside other web browsers.

    Per user reports on the Apple Support Communities website, the Safari 14.1 update breaks functionality on popular websites like eBay. The issue appears to predominantly affect Safari 14.1 on macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave.

    Reports from developers also describe ongoing problems with Safari 14.1. According to Google Chrome developer advocate Jake Archibald, the localStorage system in Safari 14.1 is buggy, and causes tabs with use the same localStorage for text boxes.

    Other reports cite that Safari 14.1 for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina feature problems with the WebAuthN problem. Per Eclectic Light, Apple pulled the Safari 14.1 update for both of those macOS versions on May 1. Other issues have been reported between web browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome on websites like eBay and others.

    As far as potential fixes, there doesn’t appear to be anything surefire. Some users report that disabling JavaScript in Safari preferences seems to resolve some of the issues. The troubleshooting advice given by other users in the Apple Support Forums suggest that a clean reinstall of the operating system solves the problem, although many users have stated that this is not a guaranteed solution.

    Apple is apparently aware of the problems and is likely working on a fix, as evidenced by the removal of Safari 14.1 for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina.

    Please let us know if you’ve experienced similar issues on your end and stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

    Via AppleInsider, discussions.apple.com, @jaffathecake, and Eclectic Light

  • Mysterious Avid issue knocks out 2013 Mac Pro workstations, workarounds and fixes under development

    A number of film and TV editors throughout Los Angeles on Monday evening reported that their 2013 Mac Pro workstations running macOS operating system versions between macOS 10.9 Mavericks to macOS 10.14 Mojave were unable to boot, resulting in speculation as to a possible computer virus attack. Social media reports suggested that the issue was widespread among users of Mac Pro computers running older versions of Apple’s operating system as well as Avid’s Media Composer software.

    Avid said in a statement Tuesday morning that it was aware of the issue, and that its engineers had mad a top priority of resolving it. Avid CEO Jeff Rosica and CTO Tim Claman released the following video, stating that the company is “working around the clock, whatever it takes” to solve the issue and that its engineers were on site a a number of locations to solve the problem.

    Apple has yet to respond to a request for comment as of late Monday.

    Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment late Monday.

    “A lot of L.A. post shops and people out on shows having their Macs slowly crash,” tweeted video post-production consultant Matt Penn.

    From what I gather there’s a massive failure of Macs with iLok/Avid that’s happening all over right now. A lot of L.A. post shops and people out on shows having their Macs slowly crash and wont boot again. Engineers are looking in to it. Don’t shut your machine off. #postchat

    — Matt Penn (@mattpenndotcom) September 24, 2019

    Some analysis by affected users seemed to suggest that the outage may not have been caused by a virus, but by a recent software update that may have corrupted some data, with some suggesting a OS X reinstall that keeps the existing data to restart the machine.

    On Tuesday afternoon, Avid’s Claman suggested that users running Avid should for the time being not reboot their computers, not install any software updates and back up all sensitive data.

    A fair amount of attention has been paid to the Google Chrome Keystone updater, which is found in the following directory: ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/

    The following steps have also been suggested as a means of possibly resolving the issue via the Terminal application:

    1. Boot into Recovery 
    2. Launch Terminal 
    # chroot /Volumes/[affected install] 
    # mv var vv 
    # ln -s private/var var 
    # chflags -h restricted /var 
    # chflags -h hidden /var 
    # xattr -sw com.apple.rootless "" /var  
    remove launch agents from /Users/[affected user]/Library/LaunchAgents/ 
    - com.google.keystone.agent.plist 
    - com.google.keystone.xpcservice.plist # exit (recommended) # csrutil enable 
    8. Reboot

    Thanks to Daniel Warren Browne for the tip to this story and we’ll keep you up to date on this as it progresses.

    If you’ve seen this issue on your end, please let us know about your experience in the comments.

    Via Variety, Twitter, and Mr. Macintosh

  • Apple releases OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks update

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    In the midst of the iPhone 6 hype and hoopla, a major operating system update just hit.

    Late Wednesday, Apple released OS X 10.9.5, which includes the following fixes and changes:

    – Safari version 7.0.6.

    – Fix for VPN-related vulnerability.

    – Fix for file access from SMB servers.

    – Fix for the reliability of virtual private network connections that use USB Smart Cards as IDs.

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  • Apple turns off legacy AIM access and inadvertently kills it for everyone

    AOL_TrashIcon-macosxWell, I say “inadvertently”, but no word on whether it was in fact so, or if it was intentional…or maybe Apple just doesn’t care enough to make sure it was functional for Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite users (granted, Yosemite is still in beta). As it was foretold many months ago by messages from Apple itself, as of July 1, 2014, Apple was discontinuing support of iChat for AIM users with legacy IDs created with mac.com, me.com, or icloud.com addresses for versions of OS X (and iChat) earlier than 10.7.5. The support article regarding the change can be found on Apple’s web site.

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