Mid 2012 MBP. Bought it right out of the gate. Nice i7 with 16gb.
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Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update With Security Fixes
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Mid 2012 MBP. Bought it right out of the gate. Nice i7 with 16gb.
I believe ms office work haven't tried it but I did saw on another thread that it does, the that work for me are productivity app but rather customization such Liteicon (The website states that an update is being worked on but they will be some limitations), xtraFinder, NepTunes (crashes with some song in Apple Music). But I think most of the Productivity & Popular apps out there already work on Big Sur or at least betas.
have you checked this wiki macOS Big Sur working/not working?
Mojave had 3 supplemental updates around the time of the Catalina release. I upgraded from High Sierra after the 3rd SU. I had none of the issues with Mojave that everyone else did (simply because I waited until after the bugs were fixed).
I'm waiting for a 3rd supplemental update to Catalina. Apple usually release 1 more SU to the last OS after they release the new OS. If there's not a 3rd SU by the time Big Sur is updated to .1 or .2, I'll take the leap to Catalina in December.
In my work circle, we all stay perpetually 1 release behind. All things being relative, we still upgrade annually. This is the way.
I used to have a similar problem with another mid-2012 MacBook Pro with 1 GB VRAM and the 650M hardware back in 2015. At that point, I just shut it down every time. This one, with the 650M and 512 MB sleeps fine, for some reason, although I haven't taken it on a trip, which is where the other one regularly failed.
It's still a good idea to upgrade to Catalina even if only for a day or a week. I made the mistake of doing a clean install back around Mountain Lion, when Apple moved where iChats were stored locally (before iCloud). Those chats are forever trapped outside of Messages. Not a big deal but the lesson was that each OS needs to be upgraded. Don't break the chain.
That’s a good point and thanks for the example of a downside to skipping a generation entirely.
If I knew for certain I wouldn’t lose any Mail data, I’d upgrade to Catalina. But there doesn’t seem to be a definitive statement by Apple that the issue was complexity fixed, just random accounts by people thinking that most of their email seems to be there (which isn’t good enough imo).
Are you saying that a Safari update was built into the Supp Update and it went from 14.0 to ? I have been holding off applying the stand alone Safari 14.0 update from last month. Can someone please confirm that an update to Safari 14.0 is built into the new Supp Update? And the new Safari build number? Or is everyone still on Safari 14.0 after the update?
I hope so, because in a year I'll probably be updating to it and I like the stability of Mojave.
And that we still use inches.It’s impressive that this version is forwards compatible so many centuries!
Like you, I was gonna skip Catalina, but I decided to upgrade in August and have had no regrets. Catalina is solid
Unfortunately the following issues are unknown:
- is Mojave affected by this critical security vulnerability? Probably yes.
- Will Apple fix the vulnerability? When? => Apple's behaviour is unacceptable.
So... you continue to use Mojave even though the above issues are not resolved? Do you not care about this serious security problem?
Everyone keeps talking about security updates. Honestly, I'm fine using Mojave WELL beyond the last security update.
I've had macs, even ones with really old os's (like Lion or Mountain Lion) and somehow my computers never blew up without those precious security updates.
@k27
And we who installed Catalina through dosdude patcher in Mac Pro 5.1, do we have to install the whole system again because no update is coming naturally? I changed videocard (again) to an AMD Radeon RX570, and I thought that small updates should be reached. I asked dosdude on his Twitter once about this, but got no answer.
What does
Bash:
pmset -g assertionsWhen exactly is this happening to you and how? This has been reported for Mojave also and has happened to me about 8 times in the last two years. So infrequently that I have ignored. But for me, the Mail app is already open, but hidden, and when I am in Safari full screen, the split screen Mail window will just automatically show up while I'm watching a video. No incoming mail or any other mail activity makes this happen. Is this the same for you?
I don't know about him, but it's the same for me, just as you described. Happens rarely so I ignore it.
Another way to see that it was installed, along with an informative history of when your update and previous updates were installed, is to use the command `softwareupdate` in terminal as such:
To List Available Updates: { dash L }
john@macbook% softwareupdate -l
Software Update Tool
Finding available software
Software Update found the following new or updated software:
* Label: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update-
Title: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update, Version: , Size: 1184946K, Recommended: YES, Action: restart,
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After you have completed installation of the update, a re-iteration of softwareupdate -l, should come up with no updates available.
Also...
List Update History: { dash dash history } *Only showing a few for brevity:
john@macbook% softwareupdate --history
Display Name Version Date
------------ ------- ----
Mobile Device 1.0.0.0 11/02/2020, 13:32:18
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update 09/29/2020, 13:00:02
macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update 09/24/2020, 22:04:22
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