Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Supplemental Update With Security Fix

[PinkyMacGodess]

Weird, I'm already at 10.15.5, and my MacBook Pro says I need to reboot for another update. What's going on?

Is there a way to see what update is waiting to install?

 

[chrfr]

Mojave just got one from today. 10.14.6

The Mojave security update was from last week.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Here is something interesting that I noticed after applying the 10.15.5 Supplemental update. When I logout of my account now, an after image of the dock is no longer displayed. Previously, an image of the dock was left on the screen. I only just noticed it so I am not sure if this was changed as part of the 10.15.5 release or part of the Supplemental update

 

[DinkThifferent]

Apple, getting so tired of this "fxing the fix" bullcr@p. Every single time now, there's always a second patch. Get it right the FIRST time.

Yeah! Like Microsoft!

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[makitango]

This is the update that disables the ability to disable nagging about pending macOS Vista updates, aye?

 

[FlyGuyDEN]

LOL

 

[PeterJP]

Does this fix the PowerPlay failed to resume bug? I can't reliably let my new 16" sleep for longer than a few minutes anymore...

 

[FlyGuyDEN]

This is the update that disables the ability to disable nagging about pending macOS Vista updates, aye?

GO TO YOUR ROOM

 

[radus]

CCC had an update on May 29 that works around the problem.

But does it prevent some apps from asking for reinstallation / reactivation when running from the external backup on a Mac with T2 chip ?

 

[andrew_mac]

This took forever to install on my 2016 15" TB MBP.

How long did it take? I just did the update and its been over an hour and going.

 

[planteater]

Security experts are testing and hardening the system in exchange for bounty rewards. That's the why of it--more pros hacking on it to flush out potential exploits.

Oracle has done it for years.

There is a bounty for macOS security issues? I thought they only did it of iOS.

 

[chrfr]

There is a bounty for macOS security issues? I thought they only did it of iOS.

It's for any Apple OS. https://developer.apple.com/security-bounty/

 

[rumormiller]

How long did it take? I just did the update and its been over an hour and going.

Only took about 20 minutes on 2013 iMac.

 

[gnasher729]

At risk of sounding whiney, what on earth is going on with all the "supplemental updates" lately? --it's getting a little ridiculous.

Just imagine that an previously reliable hard drive manufacturer (whose name is not Eastern Analogue) starts without warning shipping hard drives that not only are massively slow in the wrong circumstances, but mess up RAID drives. Crashing them. And with a bit of bad luck losing data unrecoverable. And the news is just fresh out. What would you do in Apple's place? Say "too bad for our customers, shouldn't have bought these drives", or make a slight change to prevent the crashing (nothing Apple can do about the bad performance) in a supplemental update?

Or imagine that some group has known about some vulnerability in iOS and MacOS and has started right now to use it to attack the latest iOS and MacOS versions? Which is what Apple was waiting for, finding and fixing that vulnerability in the shortest possible time? Would you fix that in a "supplemental update" or wait a while?

(BTW. The RAID fix is not listed under "security updates". Losing data is a problem, and a severe problem, but not a security problem).

 

[tchek]

If anybody is reading this before updating, beware: It will take an eternity to install. Snacks and/or a solid reason to go on living are recommended.

In related news, not too heavy on the firmware this time around. 2018 Mac mini got an iBridge bump and T2 firmware update, neither of which were a monumental jump in version number.

Yes it took a considerable time (several hours) to finally get stuck on the progress bar.
I decided to force a restart, only to finally find the desktop in good condition.
After cleaning the DNS caches because nothing connected it is ok.
Just the Outlook links (V16.38) which no longer directly open Safari ....
Really bizzard this update .. Anyone has a link to the combo with the supplement?

 

[albebaubles]

Lets take a look at what new bugs Apple introduced this time. The last Catalina updates were horrible. Breaking more things than fixing.

I now have a border around my dock...

 

[TenthDoctor]

Hi guys, could this be the long awaited solution for the kernel panics, system crashes, sleep wake problem?

What kernel panics, system crashes, and sleep wake problems?

I updated again this morning since my computer came with Catalina preinstalled, as I do not want it to have security issues.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Just imagine that an previously reliable hard drive manufacturer (whose name is not Eastern Analogue) starts without warning shipping hard drives that not only are massively slow in the wrong circumstances, but mess up RAID drives. Crashing them. And with a bit of bad luck losing data unrecoverable. And the news is just fresh out. What would you do in Apple's place? Say "too bad for our customers, shouldn't have bought these drives", or make a slight change to prevent the crashing (nothing Apple can do about the bad performance) in a supplemental update?

Or imagine that some group has known about some vulnerability in iOS and MacOS and has started right no to use it to attack the latest iOS and MacOS versions? Which is what Apple was waiting for, finding and fixing that vulnerability in the shortest possible time? Would you fix that in a "supplemental update" or wait a while?

(BTW. The RAID fix is not listed under "security updates". Losing data is a problem, and a severe problem, but not a security problem).

Can you point me to a story about the hard drive, I would really be interested in reading more about this.

 

[Taz Mangus]

What kernel panics, system crashes, and sleep wake problems?

There are 2 threads related to that:

Constant Kernel Panics – userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer

I have been receiving these kernel panics multiple times a day (the computer freezes, followed by an eventual crash/restart if I don't do a hard shut down first). It occurs most frequently when waking the computer from sleep. Often I'll go to the bathroom and return to my computer, only to see...

forums.macrumors.com

MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 - crash panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801faa2d1c): Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while calling power state change

Hi, Is it anyone getting this crash and have his iMac restarted? I see the crash over the night at least once and it's annoying. I have never encountered this before and I don't know how to fix it. Any ideas? panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801faa2d1c): Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[CoastalOR]

It took 24 minutes on a 2018 Mac Mini. No problem were encountered. My build number changed to 19F101.

 

[nylon]

How long did it take? I just did the update and its been over an hour and going.

Took about 30 mins for me.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Missed the whole 'supplemental' part. *sigh*

 

[Christopher Kim]

Just imagine that an previously reliable hard drive manufacturer (whose name is not Eastern Analogue) starts without warning shipping hard drives that not only are massively slow in the wrong circumstances, but mess up RAID drives. Crashing them. And with a bit of bad luck losing data unrecoverable.

Can you point me to a story about the hard drive, I would really be interested in reading more about this.

I think he's referring to the whole fiasco where WD's Red drives (focused on NAS / Raid arrays) have silently switched to using SMR (shingled magnetic recording) than the standard CMR tech. The way I undersand it, SMR can fit more data in the same amount of space (as the platters "overlap" like shingles), but at significantly reduced performance. Historically they were more used for archival purposes (so long-term storage), not every day drives of consistent read/writes.

Just google WD SMR and you'll see lots of articles about it.

 

[Taz Mangus]

I think he's referring to the whole fiasco where WD's Red drives (focused on NAS / Raid arrays) have silently switched to using SMR (shingled magnetic recording) than the standard CMR tech. The way I undersand it, SMR can fit more data in the same amount of space (as the platters "overlap" like shingles), but at significantly reduced performance. Historically they were more used for archival purposes (so long-term storage), not every day drives of consistent read/writes.

Just google WD SMR and you'll see lots of articles about it.

Okay, thank you for the info. I am what @gnasher729 meant by "make a slight change to prevent the crashing (nothing Apple can do about the bad performance) in a supplemental update".

 

[Self Mastered]

****, this update brought the Speaker pop to me. I bought the 16" without any issues to the speakers, and this update all of a sudden introduced it.