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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

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Apple today seeded the fourth beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming a week after the launch of the third beta.

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Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.

macOS 13.4 adds the simplified beta installation method that was first introduced in iOS 16.4. With the update, developers and public beta testers enrolled in Apple's respective programs can toggle on beta updates from System Settings on the Mac, without the need to install a profile.

An Apple ID associated with either a public beta account or a developer account is required to turn on beta updates, which means that it is no longer possible to use a developer profile not associated with a developer account to install the developer betas.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
 
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Released today
  • iOS 16.5 beta 4 (20F5059a) - May 2, 2023
  • iPadOS 16.5 beta 4 (20F5059a) - May 2, 2023
  • macOS 13.4 beta 4 (22F5059b) - May 2, 2023
  • watchOS 9.5 beta 4 (20T5560a) - May 2, 2023
  • tvOS 16.5 beta 4 (20L5559a) - May 2, 2023

Apple Studio Display​

Known Issues​

  • Apple Studio Display firmware update starts showing progress but never completes. (107287354)
    Workaround: To install other updates including future macOS Beta Updates, click “More info…” in Software Update Settings, uncheck Apple Studio Display firmware update, and click “Install Now.”

CSS​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed increasing column-count above 2 not updating the layout. (71808738)

File Bookmark​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed a regression in macOS Ventura 13.3 where a security check causes bookmark resolution to fail when the path contains Unicode characters stored with composed normalization. As an example, this prevented files in Finder from opening when double-clicked. (107550080)

SwiftUI​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Using ImageRenderer within a ShareLink’s preview closure crashed the running application. (107763234)
 
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Fixed a regression in macOS Ventura 13.3 where a security check causes bookmark resolution to fail when the path contains Unicode characters stored with composed normalization. As an example, this prevented files in Finder from opening when double-clicked.
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Finally this is fixed!
 
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MacOS 13.4 beta 4
  • Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.9.11.3)
  • System Firmware Version: 8422.121.1 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Tue Apr 25 04:06:41 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.121.2~8/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
MacOS 13.4 beta 3
  • Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.8)
  • System Firmware Version: 8422.120.65 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Sun Apr 16 18:18:26 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.120.47.0.1~41/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
 
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Is there any way to keep MacOS from re-opening every single application that was open before the update? It's weird; this ONLY happens with updates. It doesn't happen on regular reboots. Also, even if I *CLOSE* all open applications before I restart for the update, they get re-opened when the update completes.

Seriously, this is the most useless "feature" ever. Any context in those applications is long-gone, why re-open them at all? And I can't find a way to disable it.
 
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Anyone with more than one DNS and the main one having some custom domain names to be resoved by it?
I wonder if this beta makes the custom DNS work reliably as it did in Monterey but hans't been since Ventura.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/117f6fj

I haven't tried with the 13.4 beta 4 but 13.4 beta 3 still had this problem.

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Still behaves the same. :(
 
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Just a heads up I had to completely uninstall Little Snitch after upgrading to this beta from 13.3 final release. My network kept cycling off and on repeatedly. Even after uninstalling it, I had to go to Settings > Network > VPN > Remove Little Snitch from Content Filters
 
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GrantGochnauer said:
Just a heads up I had to completely uninstall Little Snitch after upgrading to this beta from 13.3 final release. My network kept cycling off and on repeatedly. Even after uninstalling it, I had to go to Settings > Network > VPN > Remove Little Snitch from Content Filters
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Have exactly the same issue. However, disabling LS in network in sys preferences of macos, and then re-enabling it fixed the problem for me.
 
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Have discovered that Falcon CloudStrike is not playing nice with the latest update. When the sensor is on (Content filter) I will lose network connection. Turning it off, re-establishes the network. Seems they have changed something in the network handling that will impact security filters ...
What seems to work though is to disable Falcon and then after a while re-enable it and then it seems connection stays up. But it will need more testing ...
 
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Still no fix for the random ejecting of external drives on Apple Silicon?
 
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Released today
  • iOS 16.5 beta 4 (20F5059a) - May 2, 2023
  • iPadOS 16.5 beta 4 (20F5059a) - May 2, 2023
  • macOS 13.4 beta 4 (22F5059b) - May 2, 2023
  • watchOS 9.5 beta 4 (20T5560a) - May 2, 2023
  • tvOS 16.5 beta 4 (20L5559a) - May 2, 2023
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Also:

audioOS 16.5 beta 4 build 20L5559a
macOS Monterery 12.6.6 beta 3 build 21G644
macOS Big Sur 11.7.7 beta 3 build 20G1342

Note that the Monterey and Big Sur betas are 1 behind Ventura because when the first beta of 13.4 came out Monterey and Big Sur were still on 12.6.5 and 11.7.6 betas.
 
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They're definitely doing something with networking code this beta version. I upgraded to the beta late last week, today for the first time ever I get home and my MBP doesn't correctly get on the wired network when I plug it into my Studio Display (with a 2.5G ethernet dongle plugged into it). I had to reboot to get it working.

Given this has been 100% reliable until now, I have to blame the beta. Haven't had a chance to see if today's beta fixes this; it may never happen again!
 
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Is there any way to keep MacOS from re-opening every single application that was open before the update? It's weird; this ONLY happens with updates.
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No. It also, like iOS updates, turns Bluetooth on each time.

My post-upgrade steps are to turn BT off and reboot (same with iOS updates on my phone).
 
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For those having Little Snitch (and related) issues, they delve deep into the system to do what they do.

I recommend disabling any such ap prior to each upgrade, and then turn it back on afterwards.
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Apparently Tripmode doesn't work, and also Cisco VPN, so it's a pretty major issue. I initially thought that it was LS that needs to update, but now im wondering if apple has broken something unintentionally.
 
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Internet connectivity is broken in this new seed for me. Constant disconnects on my M2 MacBook Air. Please fix!
 
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