Apple Releases Second Rapid Security Response Update for macOS Ventura 13.2 Beta

[Realityck]

What about for people that are stuck on Monterey because Apple just obsoleted their still awesome 27” Retina iMac?

You'll be stuck with the occasional MacOS update, some Safari/Security updates for 2 years, then it will be obsoleted likely. Wait and see what shows in March, maybe you'll get lucky.

 

[tmoerel]

Ah... but it does require a restart! This surprised me too.

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The "rapid" part must be in the installation since it is 13.4MB big... but getting a user to close their browser to restart is where things quickly "de-rapidify" 😜 and yes it can try to install later tonight but a "dirty" close button can foil it. A user can open Terminal and open a new shell with `zsh` or `bash` and that'll stop it from restarting (and they can keep all their precious browser windows open)

If your browser was closed due to an update, all you need to do is to reopen it and choose "History/Reopen all windows from last session" and all the windows will be there again.

 

[MS2]

I think it automatically installs upon restart if you have automatic security updates selected.

If not, I’d assume you’d have to manually select it like the photo shows

Who restarts their mac??

 

[gank41]

Who restarts their mac??

Well, considering the current state of macOS, 👋 I have to reboot every 4-8 days or so. Either on my M1 MBP or my Intel Mac mini, after days of uptime, some kind of memory issue gets going and everything either crashes or becomes so slow I have to reboot. There's also the issue (for me, at least) of just looking at the Notification Center, and just scrolling thru causes a kernel panic.

I am old enough to remember OS X being great at Memory Management and having a 2010 MBP go almost 45 days without a reboot. But macOS is not OS X

 

[tmoerel]

Well, considering the current state of macOS, 👋 I have to reboot every 4-8 days or so. Either on my M1 MBP or my Intel Mac mini, after days of uptime, some kind of memory issue gets going and everything either crashes or becomes so slow I have to reboot. There's also the issue (for me, at least) of just looking at the Notification Center, and just scrolling thru causes a kernel panic.

I am old enough to remember OS X being great at Memory Management and having a 2010 MBP go almost 45 days without a reboot. But macOS is not OS X

Are you sure the OS is at fault? Or could it be some old driver or other app? Because my M1 has an uptime of weeks and memory is OK.

 

[gank41]

Are you sure the OS is at fault? Or could it be some old driver or other app? Because my M1 has an uptime of weeks and memory is OK.

I've gone thru great lengths to find out the cause of this on my end, even going as far as reinstalling everything after reinstalling the OS. On Both Machines. AND, with machines use different apps. I've even started up in Safe Mode to try and find any offending apps. No dice.

I used to be able to run at least 4x's as many apps on my 2015 MBP and my 2010 MBP.. All while having uptime of close to a month or longer. With the M1 MBP, I'm generally ALWAYS showing about 250MB or so of free Memory, even with no apps open other than a few I run in the Menu Bar like Little Snitch or Fantastical & CardHop, plus a few others. And this "in use" memory seems to all be inactive memory, too! I can easily just run a purge command in Terminal and everything returns to "normal" again, but only briefly. I understand macOS' Memory Management is supposed to free up unused memory when needed, I'm just not seeing that happen. And this has only been a real problem for me since 13.1, I'm not worried.


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Here, take a look-

This 2018 Intel Mac mini has 64 GB of Memory, and other than what's listed here, I have TeamViewer running (not connected to anything), Fantastical & CardHop, and a small handful of other apps running in the background / in the Menu Bar, none of which are even listed due to how little Memory they're using. Soooo, I'm having to run a Purge command in Terminal every so often to free up 30+GB (or about half?) of its inactive Memory? I guess so.

 

[TwoBytes]

What if you don't restart - i do it once a month or so//

 

[nicolas17]

What about for people that are stuck on Monterey because Apple just obsoleted their still awesome 27” Retina iMac?

What about them? Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura are all getting security updates (most recently in December 13, 2022), just not via "rapid security responses".

The RSR system is still being tested and it's not even being used in Ventura yet (only in betas).

 

[burdett]

Small update (13.4 MB), immediately shut down Safari if running and restarted Mac after it was through.

13.2 beta 1 after 2nd rapid update = Safari Version 16.2 (18614.4.1)
13.2 beta 1 after 1st rapid update = Safari Version 16.2 (18614.4.1.500.1)
13.2 beta 1 = Safari Version 16.2 (18614.4.1)
13.1 RC = Safari Version 16.2 (18614.3.7.1.5)

Looks like a test just to see if could issue a rapid security release involving Safari versions. Note the toggling of safari versions.

They had to do it today because likely tomorrow Jan 10 they release the MacOS 13.2 beta 2 and likely updating to a Safari 16.3 release.

I thought I heard you could roll back these rapid updates ? Is this possible, or is this a feature yet to be released?

 

[zachz]

Who restarts their mac??

Lol very good point, although I've been having to restart my M1 iMac every day since for some reason it takes a few minutes to connect to the internet (ethernet) after sleeping -- maybe Apple's purposely doing this to make us restart for updates?

 

[gank41]

I find that Mobile Device Services fails or quits, sometimes often. The only “fix” I can find for this is to reboot.

 

[keef_khan]

I don't want Apple installing anything on my computer unless I ok it. Why, because Apple software updates lately are not very reliable and I don't want to troubleshoot a bunch of problems right in the middle of having to deliver for my business.

That's why there's a button to turn it off in settings