Because of all the problems with Apple UPGRADES, I am staying very far away from macOS Big Sur. I have Catalina on my MBP and my iMac and though not perfect, I am not at all willing to UPGRADE to anything that undoubtedly will be quite problematic. All of the current NEW Apple Operating System UPGRADES have issues and they may not be resolved and stable for several months. What ever happened to Quality Control and "not shipping anything until it WORKS"? Too bad, many have lost faith in Apple.
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Apple Pulls Problematic Safari 14 and Security Updates for macOS Mojave [Updated]
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I have the same issue, plus iTunes doesn't backup anymore. Sync works, but hasn't updated the device backup since 9/20.
I stay on Mojave primarily because of iTunes. Podcasts on Catalina in particular is junk. I have back episodes of several podcasts, but it doesn't import/recognize episodes that are no longer currently on the podcast feed. The files integration in Finder in Catalina is pretty weak too. No iTunes is why I am still on a 2015 13" MBP and will likely move on after it dies.
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Ahh...This explains why my 2013 Mac Pro has been recently using 18+ GB RAM, compared to the usual 8GB RAM, under my normal workflow.
macOS Supplemental Update (Oct. 1, 2020) has just appeared in my "Software Update".
I suppose this is to patch the "messed up" Security Update 2020-005.
Has anybody downloaded this Supplemental Update and see if it fixes the problems??
I would try it out myself, but my system is already messed up quite a bit.
richmlow
Ahh...This explains why my 2013 Mac Pro has been recently using 18+ GB RAM, compared to the usual 8GB RAM, under my normal workflow.
macOS Supplemental Update (Oct. 1, 2020) has just appeared in my "Software Update".
I suppose this is to patch the "messed up" Security Update 2020-005.
Has anybody downloaded this Supplemental Update and see if it fixes the problems??
I would try it out myself, but my system is already messed up quite a bit.
richmlow
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Yup, the issue seems somewhat widespread actually (every Mac I’ve tested on in the last week, multiple OSes, IDs, networks).
I'll give it a shot once the standalone installer appears here:
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What could possibly go wrong?
Safari Version 14.0.1 (16610.2.6.1.6) in Big Sur Beta has become unusable to me since about the same time (Sept 24). I hope that this is related and will be fixed soon.
Not just Mojave, I experienced a total shutdown of Safari 14 on Catalina randomly
I got bit by this a couple of days ago on my iMac Pro. Finder and browsers were slow as molasses. Just terrible. Logic and Davinci Resolve would take forever to launch if they finished launching at all.
Tried reinstalling Mojave over the top as suggested on Mr Macintosh and it didn't really help.
I did however just install the latest version of the security update and the additional update that came out today (10/1) and it does seem to have fixed it for me. So I give the 'fixed' updates a thumbs up. They saved me from having to reinstall from scratch.
Tried reinstalling Mojave over the top as suggested on Mr Macintosh and it didn't really help.
I did however just install the latest version of the security update and the additional update that came out today (10/1) and it does seem to have fixed it for me. So I give the 'fixed' updates a thumbs up. They saved me from having to reinstall from scratch.
It looks like the "macOS Supplemental Update" is a replacement of the Safari 14 update for Mojave, plus some tweaks.
I have a VM running a slightly out of date copy of Mojave 10.14.6 (I hadn't installed the last few security or Safari updates yet). Yesterday its Software Update was showing Security Update 2020-004 and Safari 3.1.2 available as updates. Today it shows Security Update 2020-005 and the macOS Supplemental Update instead.
Safari-only updates don't normally require a restart, so this supplemental update appears to be Safari plus some system-level changes. As such, it should be available as a manual download from support.apple.com/downloads at some point (Safari-only updates haven't been distributed that way for several years.)
The 2020-005 security update had been pulled and is available again, but I don't know yet whether it is the same version as last week's initial release.
If nobody beats me to it, I'll have a closer look at the installer packages later.
I have a VM running a slightly out of date copy of Mojave 10.14.6 (I hadn't installed the last few security or Safari updates yet). Yesterday its Software Update was showing Security Update 2020-004 and Safari 3.1.2 available as updates. Today it shows Security Update 2020-005 and the macOS Supplemental Update instead.
Safari-only updates don't normally require a restart, so this supplemental update appears to be Safari plus some system-level changes. As such, it should be available as a manual download from support.apple.com/downloads at some point (Safari-only updates haven't been distributed that way for several years.)
The 2020-005 security update had been pulled and is available again, but I don't know yet whether it is the same version as last week's initial release.
If nobody beats me to it, I'll have a closer look at the installer packages later.
Because Snow Leopard will only run inside a VM on this Mac.
Looks like it fixed my excessive memory usage on my 2018 mac mini. After SU 2020-005 and Safari 14 my mini started out using around 16GB of RAM, now it is back down to 7GB with all my normal apps opened.
I will update my 2014 mini next.
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It fixed the memory issue on my 2014 mini as well. It was using 11GB of RAM, now it is back to 3.2GB of RAM.
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If you have any questions about both the Re-Released 2020-005 Security update and the new 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, I have answers for you!
This is my follow-up article. I tried to test every install scenario that I could think of. Let me know if I've missed one.
mrmacintosh.com
This is my follow-up article. I tried to test every install scenario that I could think of. Let me know if I've missed one.
Mojave Supplemental Update (Safari 14) Released to Fix Previous Issues
Apple just released the Mojave 10.14.6 "Supplemental Update" which is a new version of Safari 14.0. It fixes previous 2020-005 & 14.0 issues
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well, either way... i recently switched to OC and understand it a lot better somehow.
I think I can beat that.
I have one machine that crashes if you try and put it to sleep or shut it down and one that if it does go to sleep will flatten the battery all on its own.
No issues here with Mac OS 11 beta 9 Safari. Each OS uses a different Safari 14 build (Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur)
Does anyone at Apple actually test their own software before releasing it? It's no coincidence that software in the Jobs era, releasing when it was finished and not on an annual schedule (as is done in the Tim Cook era of Apple), was more stable on average.
Tim Cook needs to at least consider doing this, AT LEAST for macOS, if not iOS and iPadOS as well.
Tim Cook needs to at least consider doing this, AT LEAST for macOS, if not iOS and iPadOS as well.
If you have any questions about both the Re-Released 2020-005 Security update and the new 10.14.6 Supplemental Update, I have answers for you!
This is my follow-up article. I tried to test every install scenario that I could think of. Let me know if I've missed one.
Mojave Supplemental Update (Safari 14) Released to Fix Previous Issues
Apple just released the Mojave 10.14.6 "Supplemental Update" which is a new version of Safari 14.0. It fixes previous 2020-005 & 14.0 issues
Thank you so much! Yes, I was on the brink of letting it wait a week or just doing it! Thanks for doing this work for us!
Greetings from Norway and a Macbook mid-2012!
Catalina is such a bad software that makes bad software look good.. ( that is why we still use mojave )
I didn't know that. So my Parallels Snow Leopard Virtual Machine would stop working when upgrading to Catalina?
Have others experienced trouble on High Sierra after installing 2020-005 supplement update? The past week has been the worst with one kernel panic after the other resulting in random reboots, endless recovery attempts, single login working, back to kernel panic. Not sure how to get out of this loop. Will try to login via recovery and install the updated supplement update I guess.