There is also new rc for Ventura and Monterey
13.6.3 rc4 build 22G436
12.7.2 rc5 build 21G1974
13.6.3 rc4 build 22G436
12.7.2 rc5 build 21G1974
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Apple Seeds macOS Sonoma 14.2 Release Candidate to Developers
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The repeated "managedappdistributionagent quit unexpectedly" bug (someone else mentions it) from Beta 4 is still happening in the so-called Release Candidate. Indeed, I was met with the delightful crash dialogue box on first boot-up after installing it.
"Release Candidate" my ass. Unless, of course, Apple don't even care about full crash bugs anymore - which certainly seems to be the case. And here was me, thinking they couldn't sink any lower.
"Release Candidate" my ass. Unless, of course, Apple don't even care about full crash bugs anymore - which certainly seems to be the case. And here was me, thinking they couldn't sink any lower.
Is the Mail app still "using significant energy"? It wrecked the battery life on my M3 and caused the device to run hot, I rolled back because of it.
I am also seeing this managedappdistributionagent crash, can everyone, if not already done so, raise a feedback item for this crash, it a seems to be the only way to get Apple to pay attention, with loads of reports etc…
I've been sending Apple feedback on this error since it first appeared on beta 4.
With RC, it only happened once for me - right after install reboot.
I have not had it since then. Knock on wood.
HA! Since when does Apple Pay any attention to the feedback that gets filed?? LOL
*yes, I still file feedback often
I continue to wait for the day that the Apple first party apps are fully separated from the operating system and distributed via the App Store. Make them uninstallable, and more freely updatable outside of the Mac / iOS team’s schedule.
Very ironic that I can now uninstall Music from my iPhone but not my Mac. And perhaps if Music were allowed to be a more standalone product I wouldn’t want to. A lot of Apple’s first party apps seem to have just become beta testing grounds for Catalyst / SwiftUI.
Also somewhat ironic that Microsoft already made a similar mistake years ago and has been trying to make up for it ever since. I guess as usual Apple thought they could do it better. I suppose they did, but it was a low bar.
You're misreading. The T6000/T8103 parts of those kernel strings relate to the hardware on which the kernel is running.
Obviously it was very solid.
I expected Safari version change because of an oddity with cookies in normal window not being saved correctly with Netflix, that I never encountered an issue. Only saw that issue with beta 4, not with beta 3 or RC. Assume that had something to do with most recent webkit security patch.
Sadly I had it again this morning, when the computer woke from overnight sleep.
Unfortunately this points to a classic modern Apple "lazy dev hacked in some half-assed fix that didn't address the root cause" issue, so now it's simply less common making it even harder to diagnose. Most likely cause in that case is a race condition bug, which some muppet "fixed" with by adding in a sleep/wait state. Could be wrong, of course, it's pure guesswork (biased via experience in commercial software dev full time employed since 1996, and writing my own stuff starting on 8-bit home computers since the 80s, but that certainly doesn't mean my guess is a good one).
EDITED 12TH DEC TO ADD: Second RC (technically Beta 6, I suppose) has not shown that crash yet, so that's good.
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It has also been published on the App Store, but my Mac Mini M2 Pro running Sonoma 14.2 is not eligible to install it, because it requires at least macOS 13.5.
Oh, Apple... 😒