Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.6 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.6 update to developers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third beta.

Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

We don't yet know what might be included in macOS Sonoma 14.6, and no new features have been discovered in the betas so far.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.6 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

 

[xgman]

nothing here yet..

 

[smithrh]

Nothing here either

 

[coolfactor]

It's been Seeded. You need to wait until it Sprouts. 🌱

 

[smithrh]

Just arrived, that pretty bad performance for their CDN...

 

[smithrh]

Quick install, interesting that after the install Software Update showed me new Safari version, downloaded separately

 

[TJFDenver]

these pretzels are making me thirsty

 

[tywebb13]

build number is 23G5075b

also there is ventura 13.6.8 rc 2 build 22G817

and monterey 12.7.6 rc 4 build 21H1317

 

[Realityck]

what got seeded
iOS 17.6 beta 4 (21G5075a) = July 16, 2024
iPadOS 17.6 beta 4 (21G5075a) - July 16, 2024
macOS 14.6 beta 4 (23G5075b) - July 16, 2024
tvOS 17.6 beta 4 (21M5068a) - July 16, 2024
visionOS 1.3 beta 4 (21O5768a) - July 16, 2024
watchOS 10.6 beta 4 (21U5574a) - July 16, 2024

 

[wilhoitm]

This is incorrect they meant to say Ventura instead of Sonoma. Hence the 14.6 version number instead of 15.

 

[iAssimilated]

This is incorrect they meant to say Ventura instead of Sonoma. Hence the 14.6 version number instead of 15.

No, it is correct. Sonoma is 14. Ventura is 13. Sequoia is 15.

 

[wilhoitm]

No, it is correct. Sonoma is 14. Ventura is 13. Sequoia is 15.

You are right! I had Sonoma mixed up with Sequoia!

 

[tywebb13]

the sonoma full installer is available now but not the ventura or monterey ones

maybe the ventura and monterey ones will come out later

i need the ventura full installer because apple won't allow ota beta updates for vms for anything other than sequoia

 

[tywebb13]

actually the ventura and monterey full installers are available too now so now i can update my ventura vm

but the new feature in sequoia allowing authentication required for updating beta vms via ota - really should be retrospectively added to older systems too so that one would no longer need the full installers for them either

 

[Populus]

You are right! I had Sonoma mixed up with Sequoia!

Yeah, I’m not sure why Apple went with such similar names for consecutive releases.