I’ve been reporting a number of macOS bugs with a few bugs that haven’t been fixed yet. Several of them seem to be in Safari with certain web sites that simply won’t scroll past a certain point while the pages scroll just fine in Chrome. Disqus, a common comment system, also seems to have significant problems. These problems persist in iOS/iPadOS, but Apple released those anyway. I’ve also got a nasty printing bug where text simply will not print but graphics will, whether I’m printing from a web page, a PDF, or a Word or Pages document. They did seem to fix all the networking issues I’ve run into, so I’m quite happy with that. I do hope they fix most of these bugs before a public 11.0 or 11.0.1 release.
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Apple Releases First macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Beta to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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Traditionally, the OS supports new hardware at launch. Thus, the Big Sur will arrive alongside the new tiny (5nm) Silicon.
Hopefully this update will fix the issue I keep seeing where my system will lock up and require a hard reboot.
I just don't buy the "apple is holding out for silicon Macs" argument, I hope and think the release will be soon, as in by the end of the week. I think the GM is locked for the new devices, and will be released to developers ASAP. If they hold off a GM until after this event, what are all the silicon Macs going to run? Apps that haven't had a chance to be fully optimized for Big Sur? What kind of customer experience is that? Nothing will be ready to run on a silicon Mac. I think that would be a mess, and I don't think they would do that, at least I hope they don't.
Can confirm the YouTube bug is fixed. "File not found" when connecting an iPhone via USB isn't, however.
@erniefairchild1 Might I ask what are you disagreeing with? It’s just my observation with respect to bugs I am facing. Disagreeing will not make the bugs disappear for me. 😂
Just updated without any problems. Downloading and installing didnt take long, but preparing for update take a while
invisible fonts? thats a modern design language you'll get use to it and then love it. with passion.
Actually, what's more likely is that Beta 10 is the build being used for the GM, as Big Sur is due to be released 18th November, the day after the Mac Silicon event, according to what I have read from reputable sources online (GM should be out the week of the 9th, or they might give Devs 2 weeks gap instead of 1 and release GM next week).
Since they have locked down the build for GM, they want Devs to now move onto testing the next release, as nothing more will be changed for 11.0 since GM is now locked.
If Big Sur will have binaries for both x64 and ARM for everything, does this mean we get to see the return of optimization apps that promise to scrub your laptop of the unused binaries, like we had in Leopard?
No, that's would break all the code signatures, and it would require a full reinstall to fix macOS and get it booting again.
Will they release 11.0.1 instead of 11.0.0? Or is the GM pending release with the new macbooks in November?
After last year's Catalina roll out, maybe Apple wants to roll a stable osMAC Big Sur?
The latter. GM for 11.0 is coming either next week or the week after (more likely the latter) and the public release of 11.0 is supposedly the 18th November, the day after the Silicon event according to a few of the reputable leakers.
In the release notes many things are carried over from Beta 10 release notes. It could be Apple has dumped 11 as the release and is moving the 11.0.1 as the full release later in November. Who is to say it has to be released the day of the Mac show, Apple could announce the new Macs release 3 weeks later or something. Possibly Apple felt it was too late to release 11.0 and it wasn't on par. Maybe like iOS 13.1 was, this will be a short beta.
I kinda agree, as it appears 11.0 is coming out the day after the event, I doubt the new Macs won't be shipped to people until, at least, the Friday of the following week, so 11.0.1 might be a day 1 update for those Silicon Macs, rather than shipped as the OS installed.
I want Apple to take as long of time as they need. Nobody NEEDS a new OS, nor do they NEED Big Sur to get work done. I for one got tired of the Catalina trashing so Apple can take as long as needed to get Big Sur running as smooth as possible.
No, it's barely been out 2 hours for the developers.
My thoughts exactly, you beat me to it.
Does the delay potentially indicate significant new Mac hardware, that Apple is trying to hide by holding back the full public version? Maybe nothing crazy like a touchscreen Mac, but new screen sizes, new Touch Bar implementation, etc.
I don’t really know how this works, but a ton of leaks recently have come from clues in the OS, which it seems like Apple could easily prevent.
I ride the Beta train on iOS most all of the time, but I haven't touched Big Sur yet. I may even wait until 11.1, but I'm really excited to try this out.