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Apple today seeded the release candidate of an upcoming macOS Ventura 13.6 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a month after the release of macOS Ventura 13.5. A Release Candidate is a version of beta software that is used for final testing before the update is released to the public.

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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 Ventura 13.6 is a security fix update and does not appear to include any new features. Apple has also seeded a macOS Monterey 12.7 beta for people who are unable to update to macOS Ventura.

Article Link: Apple Seeds macOS Ventura 13.6 Release Candidate to Developers
 
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12.6.8 came out a few weeks ago. 12.7 is the next beta version.


You're right. I forgot that they did the same thing last year. But it's a bit unusual for Apple to release a .X update with no outward facing feature updates.

I feel this has more to do with Apple not liking large X.X.X numbers. I'm shocked we are seeing X.X.8 and X.X.9 releases in the last couple of years. Before they would hide all this in supplemental updates (which I am glad they discontinued).
 
I feel this has more to do with Apple not liking large X.X.X numbers. I'm shocked we are seeing X.X.8 and X.X.9 releases in the last couple of years. Before they would hide all this in supplemental updates (which I am glad they discontinued).
The change is because the major version is no longer stuck at 10. This was a holdover from the OS X branding. (Edit) I believe they kept it around for awhile to maintain support for some legacy apps, which would otherwise get confused when they checked for the running system version.
 
The change is because the major version is no longer stuck at 10. This was a holdover from the OS X branding. (Edit) I believe they kept it around for awhile to maintain support for some legacy apps, which would otherwise get confused when they checked for the running system version.
Perhaps. But they've gone above X.Y.9 in the past with 10.4.11 Tiger. One example though of maintaining support is that macOS web browsers still report the OS version as 10.15.7 in the User Agent string, even with Ventura.
 
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