It makes you wonder how well the testing of prototypes are going.
Why was this not caught before the official release?
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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update With Fix for APFS Disk Utility Bug and Keychain Vulnerability
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Why was this not caught before the official release?
This must have been an embarrassing bug. Apple employs thousands of people they couldn't find this bug in the beginning?
Unfortunately, if you want/need to fix the password-reveal problem, it will take a lot longer than 15 minutes. You have to backup your drive, reformat, and restore the drive.
I'd chosen not to encrypt. I use a Mac Mini in my home, and use it for software development, and can use all the performance I can get out of it. In my workflow, there is a lot of copying of files which are then not changed, and so COW is a huge improvement! Installation of a new 1GB flash drive (OCZ Vector 180 that I'd purchased a year ago and had never installed) and use of APFS has significantly improved my build times. Still, at about 500mbyte/sec (about the limit of the SATA3 interface on the Mac Mini...) I am envious of the newer Macbooks that are getting up to 2000mbyte/sec!
FWIW, I replaced the original 128G flash drive portion of the original fusion drive, leaving the original hard drive. I don't use the hard drive, but did leave it connected. It was more convenient to leave it installed, as it would have required more of a tear-down to remove it. I might use it to store unimportant files. I don't have much trust in a 5 year old hard drive!
I will pass on this update and await something more substantial. I am experiencing no problems with High Sierra.
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Do you guys feel that this reinforces the good practice that mainstream users should never use something as critical as a new file system on release 1.0?
I've make a clean installation of High Sierra on my Macbook 15" TB 2016. It has an 512GB SSD.
After the installation completed, I opened System Information utility to check the information on my storage.
For my surprise Partition Map Type is Unknown.
I checked with some friends that have MacBooks, and if they use SSDs, they also get Unknown.
After the installation completed, I opened System Information utility to check the information on my storage.
For my surprise Partition Map Type is Unknown.
I checked with some friends that have MacBooks, and if they use SSDs, they also get Unknown.
Good on Apple for a quick update. Glad I didn't use the password hint option, as it saves me from wiping the APFS disk.
Anyone know if you can install this update on a MBP pro with the lid closed connected to an external monitor?
Good Job Apple getting that fix out the door 
I was thinking we were going to see 10 betas of it before it was released
I was thinking we were going to see 10 betas of it before it was releasedThis update also resolves an issue which I had where my mid 2012 MBP (non-Retina display) would not display anything on the built in display when an external monitor was also plugged in. Now I can use both, instead using only the built in monitor or an external in clamshell mode.
The issue was that the internal monitor was lit up (the backlight) and acted like usable space for both dragging programs to it and in the systems preferences display arrangement, but only pure black was shown on the built in. Curiously, if I had the external monitor programmed by the OS to be rotated by either 90, 180, or 270 degrees, both would work fine.
All is well now.
The issue was that the internal monitor was lit up (the backlight) and acted like usable space for both dragging programs to it and in the systems preferences display arrangement, but only pure black was shown on the built in. Curiously, if I had the external monitor programmed by the OS to be rotated by either 90, 180, or 270 degrees, both would work fine.
All is well now.
Excellent. Wasn't there a bug in Illustrator too? Wondering if that's fixed too. Just waiting on Wacom drivers and I can update to High Sierra.
Yep. That comment section was a mess of people complaining that Apple releases to many bug fixes
I'm glad for the patch, but any fix that requires such a complicated procedure qualifies as a Major Bug, IMHO.
Nice User Experience, guys. Jeez.
Interesting. Not the case with me.
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I’ve downloaded and applied the update twice and it continues to ask me to download and update after restart... It shows as available update and never moves to installed.
10.13.0 is definitely the worst buggiest .0 release of macOS/OS X that I've seen in a number of years. I do remember 10.9.0 being pretty bad, too.
I've noticed a pattern of even-numbered releases of the OS being more refined and polished at its .0 releases (i.e., 10.8.0, 10.10.0, and 10.12.0), while odd-numbered releases has always been much more buggy and filled of issues during their .0 releases (i.e., 10.7.0, 10.9.0, and 10.13.0). Did anyone notice this, too?
I've noticed a pattern of even-numbered releases of the OS being more refined and polished at its .0 releases (i.e., 10.8.0, 10.10.0, and 10.12.0), while odd-numbered releases has always been much more buggy and filled of issues during their .0 releases (i.e., 10.7.0, 10.9.0, and 10.13.0). Did anyone notice this, too?
If they only found out about it then Apple macOS QA has some serious problems to fix immediately. Or are beta testers the QA nowadays?