Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 With Messages in iCloud Support

[rahulda1]

To be fair, the people at Duet don't seem to have done anything about this, either.

We implemented a workaround that auto-updated to everyone on 10.13.4 or later. Are working with Apple on a more long term fix.

 

[newellj]

We implemented a workaround that auto-updated to everyone on 10.13.4 or later. Are working with Apple on a more long term fix.

What has the overall user experience been? It was a total bust for me.

 

[rahulda1]

It works really well IMO as it uses AirPlay, which is native and hardware accelerated. What issues were you having?

 

[dempson]

For El Capitan you might be better off updating to Security Update 2018-003 via the mac app store instead of the dmg file because curiously the dmg updates to build 15G21012 whereas the mac app store gives you a slightly higher build 15G21013.

I discovered this after installing it via the dmg, yet the update still appeared in the mac app store - because it detected that the dmg version was a lower build.

For reference: I used the manual download of El Capitan Security Update 2018-003 the day it was released saw the same issue. (The corresponding Sierra security update seemed to be fine.)

I've rechecked again today and Apple have replaced the manual download dmg of the El Capitan security update with a newer build that is now installing 15G21013, and after installing it (on a Mac running an earlier build of El Capitan), App Store doesn't offer the same security update again.

They also fixed the dates on the download pages of Security Update 2018-003 pages for El Capitan and Sierra, which previously said March. They now say June 1 for El Capitan and June 3 for Sierra.

 

[nsgr]

@drlunanerd
What happens with the new "firmware" if you downgrade your macOS?

@To all users
I got the following SHA-1 checksums from the macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 (17F77) Installer

InstallESD.dmg SHA-1 : 216b38acfb234b4e29c2dba41fd76814550b59e2
BaseSystem.dmg SHA-1 : a97aeffdbeda4d68e1053f69b55d9d56df4259d6

Did you get the same checksums?

Came

Download from the App Store (09-June-2018):

High Sierra 10.13.5 (17F73)


BaseSystem.dmg

shasum /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg
a97aeffdbeda4d68e1053f69b55d9d56df4259d6

md5 /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg
MD5 = 4057b8623b13f60654bb344a73b43358


InstallESD.dmg

shasum /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
216b38acfb234b4e29c2dba41fd76814550b59e2

md5 /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
MD5 = 2e49889433d173a6aa22eb9318e514aa


cat /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallInfo.plist | grep -i -A 1 version
<key>version</key>
<string>10.13.5</string>


cat /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep -i -A 1 DTSDKBuild
<key>DTSDKBuild</key>
<string>17F73</string>


PKGUTIL

pkgutil --check-signature /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app

Package "Install macOS High Sierra.app":
   Status: signed by a certificate trusted by Mac OS X
   Certificate Chain:
    1. Software Signing
      SHA1 fingerprint: 01 3E 27 87 74 8A 74 10 3D 62 D2 CD BF 77 A1 34 55 17 C4 82
      -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    2. Apple Code Signing Certification Authority
      SHA1 fingerprint: 1D 01 00 78 A6 1F 4F A4 69 4A FF 4D B1 AC 26 6C E1 B4 59 46
      -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    3. Apple Root CA
      SHA1 fingerprint: 61 1E 5B 66 2C 59 3A 08 FF 58 D1 4A E2 24 52 D1 98 DF 6C 60

Update:

Mac OS 10.13.5 Installer - 10.13.5 (17F73)

After install Mac OS -> About This Mac -> 10.13.5 (17F77)

 

[tywebb13]

I have reason to believe too that this same version of the Gatekeeper update will be available for the first developer preview of macos 10.14 if it isn't already in it.

Actually I just discovered something pretty weird about mojave. It has a really old version of gatekeeper - version 94.

I previously had another installation of mojave which was not a clean install and so was unable to tell which version mojave would come with in a clean install - as the gatekeeper would already have been updated on that computer before mojave.

But now I have done a clean install of mojave on another computer and was surprised to see such a low version number for gatekeeper.

Thankfully the version 140 update installs nicely into mojave.

Those who have clean installs of mojave might also be interested in this.

This also got me thinking - what about xprotect? Would that be an old one too? No actually that is the up-tp-date version 2099 in mojave - so no need to update this one manually in mojave yet.

So they let xprotect be up-to-date in mojave but not gatekeeper? Maybe it is because it is a beta and did not bother with gatekeeper yet.

 

[markgpearse]

Messages sync via iCloud is a big step forward, but for whatever reason "they" forgot about the AppleWatch. Very frustrating to (1) not be able to completely turnoff Messages on the AppleWatch and (2) having to delete Messages on my AppleWatch, one by one by one... what a waste of time.