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Apple Releases Safari 15.6.1 for macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina With Important Security Fix
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In America too ....
Apple discloses security vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, Macs allowing 'full admin access' to devices
Apple on Thursday released a security update disclosing that there had been certain vulnerabilities in some of its iPhone, iPad and Mac products.
Is this still rolling out? I'm seeing it appear as an option on Big Sur systems but I'm not seeing it on anything running Catalina, the only software update that's appearing is the upgrade to Monterey which I don't want to do.
Yea, I too miss the days of Cheeta, Puma, Tiger…. Then who can forget the days when they used Bear names. Ah the days of Kodiak…
One of the slowest security update rollouts I've ever seen. My Catalina Mac had it yesterday, but Big Sur Mac *still* isn't showing it. I really miss the days of standalone updaters.
So I take it there won't be any updates for people with Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6 or Safari 14.1.2 ....?
UK newspapers feed off each other. And there's nothing they like more than a bit of panic.
If you're like me and can't seem to get the update to appear in software update then I found a terminal code someone wrote that will check for the latest version and install it for you. Just run the following in terminal and you'll be good to go:
Code:
check=$(softwareupdate -l | grep Safari | grep -o 'Safari[^[:blank:]]*' | head -n 1)
echo "$check"
softwareupdate -i "$check"
WebKit is an integral part of the OS. Safari is not truly what gets updated other than to be rebuilt against WebKit.
All that does is run softwareupdate from CLI rather than GUI. Doesn't help if it's still not been made available to your client yet; you'll just see "No new software available", same as the GUI.
And of course I was talking about a standalone Safari installer but you had to again mention Monterey which has nothing to do with Safari 15.6.1 as it is for Catalina and Big Sur only. Is reading comprehension a lost art these days?
Well the GUI was refusing to tell me I had an update and terminal immediately found and installed it so it’s still worth trying IMO.
Mine also seemed to take a really long time for no apparent reason. So long as I never see a black screen with Unix on it I'm always happy.
