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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 With Fixes for WebKit Security Issues
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Is there still a 2-second lag in audio with interactive applications, such as Zoom or FaceTime web conference calls?
Can't they (apple) just "think" different about the updates?
Seems stupid to send a single security fix in a whole new installer.
Seems stupid to send a single security fix in a whole new installer.
I thought that was the explanation, but at the end of the day, everyone will have the exact same SSV (maybe one each for the two architectures). They could generate a binary diff to go from one to the next.
The other explanation I've heard is that it's for the dyld cache, which can no longer be generated locally. But, again, I don't see why you couldn't supply a path to go from one version to another.
Thanks. Hopefully it will start to support delta updates in the next release, as they obviously have a method for doing this with iPadOS and iOS. It’s a huge update to download each time - and Apple surely must want to save on the bandwidth costs too.
45 minutes so far (November 2018 Macbook Air, 16 Gb/500Gb). 5 minutes to go. For the last 15 minutes. Which, coincidentally was how long it said it was going to take when it started!
Alongside iOS 14.5.1 and watchOS 7.4.1, Apple today also released macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, which the company says "provides important security updates".
According to the full security notes for the release, it addresses a memory corruption issue and an integer overflow in WebKit that could both be exploited using maliciously crafted web content. Apple says it aware of a report that these issues may have been actively exploited, so users are advised to upgrade immediately.
Article Link: Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 With Fixes for WebKit Security Issues
I am interested to know why people think an update should be a smaller size. And if 100,000,000 people use Macs, does it not seem reasonable, statistically, that at least a few drives, some SSD's even, would be out there JUST ABOUT ready to fail and chose NOW to do it? OR any other components? Even devices touting 99.999% uptime will have .001 X 100,000,000 = 100,000 failures on Macs. 99.9999% is still 10,000 failures. Personally, any company, even a HUGE company, whose job it is to keep 100,000,000 users of HOW MANY LANGUAGES and keyboards?... keeping them all happy is doing something I cannot comprehend even starting. How does one even plan for that many people to DOWNLOAD? Apple is at a scale I cannot begin to appreciate. And my 50 years of programming does NOT make it easier for me to understand the complexities. Maybe if they used Cobol I could chip in with some ideas.
I DO KNOW that a number of incident reports I made are now fixed. They do not list all the fixes when a security failure has to be plugged NOW, TODAY. If they did NOT list something YOU had seen fail, you may not take the update. So, if they ONLY talk security fixes... that means EVERYONE should set up for nightly automatic updates. When you consider that buying just ONE external drive and using Time Machine gives 100% restore... well what else can we ask for? I've lost a hard drive twice, and Time Machine had me back up in a short time... less than the time to read the Windows update pre-reqs.
When I remember correctly, Apple stated that updates would be faster with Big Sur (or was ist Catalina?).
I really can't see this. The latest update took 30-40 minutes on all of my four Macs I already updated and that is for a bugfix in a library and not an full OS update. Comparing the update experience to Linux, which I too use a lot, the Apple experience is much inferior and it leaves us with unfixed bugs for a longer time.
And even Apple demonstrates, that the Updates could be much smaller, when upgrading iOS and iPadOS, which basically are using the same libraries.
For me this is clearly a topic Apple should properly address!
I really can't see this. The latest update took 30-40 minutes on all of my four Macs I already updated and that is for a bugfix in a library and not an full OS update. Comparing the update experience to Linux, which I too use a lot, the Apple experience is much inferior and it leaves us with unfixed bugs for a longer time.
And even Apple demonstrates, that the Updates could be much smaller, when upgrading iOS and iPadOS, which basically are using the same libraries.
For me this is clearly a topic Apple should properly address!
I had the same problem this morning on my M1 MBP after I updated to 11.3.1 last night. Then I restarted again and luckily, my same AnyConnect version is now working again. Correlation? No idea.
The update has essentially bricked my 2014 iMac. On restart I get the apple and after a few minutes, a completed progress bar. Then it stalls. No further progress.
Update: Command R and Option P at the same time finally got me to recovery mode.
Update: Command R and Option P at the same time finally got me to recovery mode.
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Software is a moving target...and so many variables to consider and get right. Im sure Apple do their best, do you really expect them to get it right 100% of the time?
Oh, and Macs and iDevices are slightly more complex than doors.
These forums are chock full of whiney babies who love to gripe and moan. Good lord. If Apple hadn't released this as soon as possible, you would all be complaining about that. Shut up and enjoy your computer or else go buy something else.
Sorry, didn't mean for it to come out like that
. I was genuinely curious because it worked only intermittently on my 2015 MacBook Pro but flawlessly on the new one.5g
Consider doing a clean install every so often, create a USB boot drive with the installer, do your backups, zero out the install disk and then do a fresh install from the USB installer.
Consider doing a clean install every so often, create a USB boot drive with the installer, do your backups, zero out the install disk and then do a fresh install from the USB installer.
There is a revised version of Safari 14.1 that's now released for those 2 operating systems, which provides this security update.