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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Public Beta Testers

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Apple todays seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 update to public beta testers, with the beta coming a day after the developer release and two weeks after the launch of macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, the release version of the software.

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Beta testers who signed up for Apple's beta testing program can download the macOS Big Sur beta through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper profile.

Mac users who want to be a part of Apple's beta testing program can sign up to participate on the beta website, which gives users access to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS betas.

There's no word yet on what's included in macOS Big Sur 11.1, but it likely includes performance improvements, security updates, and fixes for bugs that weren't able to be addressed in the release version of macOS Big Sur. No significant new feature changes were discovered in the first developer beta.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Public Beta Testers
 
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So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
 
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dpfenninger said:
So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
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any infos about amd 6000x series drivers?
 
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going to go download it now ...
edit: 3.68GB on my MBP
Edit2: 11.1 Beta (20C5048k)
 
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dpfenninger said:
So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
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it appears they will use the same dot releases as they've been of iOS now for macOS ... personally, I think that's less confusing but I really don't care either way
 
dpfenninger said:
So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
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They're probably going to go up from 11 going forward. Before Big Sur, Apple considered all releases to be iterations of OS X.
 
It's a bummer that Apple still frequently does betas without explaining what to test.

dpfenninger said:
So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years?
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Probably not.

Mac OS X had this odd thing where major releases like 10.4 Tiger and 10.15 Catalina actually had the minor version bumped up.

This was different in the Mac OS Classic days, and has always been different on iOS.

This 11.1.0 release is presumably equivalent to an iOS 14.1: it will add some minor features and fix a lot of bugs.

We've also already had a 11.0.1 point release: whereas the Apple Silicon Macs shipped with 11.0.0, Intel Macs got 11.0.1 as the first final release.

dpfenninger said:
I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x
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Bug fixes: .x.y

Features: .x.0

dpfenninger said:
...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
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Right. We'll likely see 12.0 at WWDC 2021.
 
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I have heard that the issue with Drobo (and other?) ThunderBolt DAS devices has been resolved with 11.1 on the Developer Beta side. Anyone experiencing these issues on the Public Beta able to confirm it's been fixed?

Specifically, Drobo DAS connected via Thunderbolt 2/3 were not being seen or we showing up as not initialized (they did show up when connected via USB).
 
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Came here to ask the same question. Out of the few bugs I've come across, this is the only one that is driving me bonkers!
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For me it hasn’t been great in general across iPad, iPhone and Mac. I still have to manually connect them quite often, and there are plenty of times when I get the AirPods Connected notification but audio still plays from the device speakers.
 
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Anything new?
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Probably a minor point for most, but a big deal for others is that the 11.1 beta makes it possible to run Codeweavers Crossover, which allows many Windows programs to run on M1 Macs as if they were “regular” Intel Mac applications.
 
I can't stop this from being offered! I've removed the beta profiles after updating to 11.0.1 but this still shows up, is that normal?
 
chucker23n1 said:
It's a bummer that Apple still frequently does betas without explaining what to test.


Probably not.

Mac OS X had this odd thing where major releases like 10.4 Tiger and 10.15 Catalina actually had the minor version bumped up.

This was different in the Mac OS Classic days, and has always been different on iOS.

This 11.1.0 release is presumably equivalent to an iOS 14.1: it will add some minor features and fix a lot of bugs.

We've also already had a 11.0.1 point release: whereas the Apple Silicon Macs shipped with 11.0.0, Intel Macs got 11.0.1 as the first final release.


Bug fixes: .x.y

Features: .x.0


Right. We'll likely see 12.0 at WWDC 2021.
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Or this is just marketing wanting them to get the release number off of a .0.x series ASAP.
 
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