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Apple Seeds macOS Sonoma 14.4 Beta 5 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

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Apple today seeded the fifth beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after the release of the fourth beta.

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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.

macOS Sonoma 14.4 introduces some of the features in the iOS 17.4 beta, such as new emoji characters. We don't know what Mac-specific features are included, and little else was found in the betas so far.

Article Link: Apple Seeds macOS Sonoma 14.4 Beta 5 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/27/apple-seeds-macos-sonoma-14-4-beta-5/
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To devs today likely PB tests also.
  • iOS 17.4 Release Candidate (21E217) - February 27, 2024
  • iPadOS 17.4 Release Candidate (21E217) - February 27, 2024
  • macOS 14.4 beta 5 (23E5211a) - February 27, 2024
  • tvOS 17.4 beta 5 (21L5225a) - February 27, 2024
  • visionOS 1.1 beta 4 (21O5203a) -February 27, 2024
  • iOS 16.7.6 Release Candidate (20H3200 - February 27, 2024
  • iPadOS 16.7.6 Release Candidate (20H320) - February 27, 2024
  • iOS 15.8.2 Release Candidate (19H384) - February 27, 2024
  • iPadOS 15.8.2 Release Candidate (19H384) - February 27, 2024
 
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There are also RC 4s for Monterey 12.7.4 build 21H1122 and Ventura 13.6.5 build 22G620

Not like last time when there was a significant gap between the releases of RC 3s of these.
 
Curious if this update adds RAW support for some newer cameras. Sony a6700 is stilling missing, and it was released in July 2023. Is there a way to check this?
 
Safari is up to Version 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.9) from 19618.1.15.11.5.

Speedometer 2.0 is down to 645, down from 657 in Beta 4.

Music is the same as on Beta 4.

The most recent stock wallpapers are still missing – I guess, meaning the release will definitely be a newer build.
 
Comparison of 14.4 beta 5 to previous 14.4 beta 4

macOS 14.4 beta 5 (23E5211a)
  • Version 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.9)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.101.3 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Thu Feb 22 21:53:26 PST 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.15~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 14.4 beta 4 (23E5205c)
  • Safari Version 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.5)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.101.2.501.1 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Tue Feb 13 23:56:07 PST 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.14~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
* Apple Music/TV still 1.4.4.48

7 days later then 4th beta

AppKit​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed an issue where center or right aligned NSTextField appears blurry. (120819010)
  • Fixed: Resolves an issue where pointer style does not update when browsing in Safari. (121131986)

Core ML​

New Features​

  • ML Program models that are loaded with MLComputeUnits.cpuOnly will use a new high performance CPU backend that takes advantage of Accelerate framework’s BNNS library. (114037934)

CreateML​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: When using the transfer learning algorithm option, the CreateML app and framework object detection template might fail to converge and cause poor model quality and produce more than expected false positives. (114480994)

Finder​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Resolves an issue where tiling a window causes the desktop picture to turn black. (118044617)

Messages​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Stickers (Memoji and 3rd party) might appear blank. (120994483)

Passkeys​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Registering passkeys might not work on certain websites. (122217903)

Software Updates​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Updates to macOS 14.4 starting from macOS 11.0–12.3.1 will not work. (120548971)

StoreKit​

New Features​

  • productDescriptionHidden(_:) API can be used to configure the visibility of product descriptions in ProductView, StoreView and SubscriptionStoreViewinstances within a view hierarchy. When building with Xcode 15.3, the view modifier can be used even if your app is running on iOS 17.0, iPadOS 17.0, macOS 14.0, tvOS 17.0, watchOS 10.0, visionOS 1.0, or later.
    When implementing a product view style, it can support this new view modifier by checking the descriptionVisibility property on the configuration value. (110414819) (FB12261973)
  • You can use SubscriptionStoreView to present promotional offers by adding the subscriptionPromotionalOffer(offer:signature:) modifier.
    If you’re already using inAppPurchaseOptions(_:)modifier to support promotional offers for StoreKit views, you should adopt the new API instead when your app is running on iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, tvOS 17.4, watchOS 10.4, visionOS 1.1 or later. Do not use both APIs to apply a promotional offer for the same view. (115358806)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: The isEligibleForIntroOffer property and isEligibleForIntroOffer(for:) method now reflect ineligibility in cases where a customer would otherwise be eligible for the offer if they weren’t actively subscribed. This means a customer which is not currently eligible for an introductory offer may become eligible in the future.
    Customers who redeem an introductory offer for a given subscription group will continue to never be eligible for another introductory offer in that subscription group. You can detect this case this by checking if any one transaction with a matching subscriptionGroupID has the type property on offer set to introductory. (103604770) (FB11889732)

SwiftUI​

New Features​

  • Table now supports dynamic numbers of columns with the new TableColumnForEach. (79492167) (FB9189673)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: DatePicker in macOS reset focus to the first date component when its bound date changes and timeZone is overriden in the environment. (97376561)

Synchronization​

New Features​

  • New os_sync_wait_on_address APIs have been added. They are expected to be used for implementing synchronization primitives that do not have a sense of ownership. Please file feedback if you need Synchronization functionality not covered by existing API. (94759935) (FB10141068)
 
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acader said:
Yay! More emoji. Truly some stellar developers working at Apple.
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srbNYC said:
How many times do folks have to note that emoji don't come from Apple? They're part of Unicode, and Apple just enables them for their devices.
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Not to mention that late patch releases for an update are most likely to only contain spot bug fixes, not new features, or functionality, or major refactors/pieces of work/etc. Looking at the release notes posted above we can see this beta 5 follows that expectation.
 
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Still waiting for Aerial Screensavers/show as desktop to work on M1 Studio Ultra. You'd think Apple would at least fix this issue, or there's something hardware related with the Ultra CPU's that just don't work. Works fine on M1 Mac mini, has not worked from day one of Sonoma. Several wipe and restores with no other software etc installed confirmed it's an apple issue. Feedback ignored.
 
Four consecutive Mondays waiting to for a Sonoma beta that doesn't mess up the plugins of Logic Pro. Wrote each Monday in Developers Feedback to no avail. Did they really read them? No wait, Siri does!
 
thorntonp said:
Still waiting for Aerial Screensavers/show as desktop to work on M1 Studio Ultra. You'd think Apple would at least fix this issue, or there's something hardware related with the Ultra CPU's that just don't work. Works fine on M1 Mac mini, has not worked from day one of Sonoma. Several wipe and restores with no other software etc installed confirmed it's an apple issue. Feedback ignored.
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Works fine on my M1 Ultra 🤷‍♂️
 
Anyone know what the firmware update does for M1's? Hope it does not slow it down...
 
srbNYC said:
How many times do folks have to note that emoji don't come from Apple? They're part of Unicode, and Apple just enables them for their devices.
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Apple still have to make them for their devices though (I understand and agree with what you’re saying, you’re just implying that Unicode has already made the emojis for Apple, and Apple has to just ‘enable’ them...)
 
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