Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.4 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the third 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 second 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.

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 first two betas.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.4 to Developers

 

[hutleytj]

Kernel panics! I am getting 6 to 10 kernel panics per day with the 2nd beta! This 3rd beta fixed this issue, today 13-FEB-24.

 

[Realityck]

As usually expect the OTA to start showing about 15 - 20 mins from now. (about 10:30 PST)

 

[Realityck]

Kernel panics! I am getting 6 to 10 kernel panics per day with this beta!
No idea how to fix this! All suggestions welcome.

Looking at Console -> Crash Reports don't really see anything with beta 2 on AS Mac, and you have not installed beta 3 yet so you can't say "with this beta".

 

[Realityck]

MacOS beta 3 is now OTA available

 

[kvlq]

 

[Darren.h]

Kernel panics! I am getting 6 to 10 kernel panics per day with this beta!
No idea how to fix this! All suggestions welcome.

make sure you have no external connected hardware that is causing the kernel panics.

I would also run a mem test to see if your ram modules are ok. May not apply to Apple Silicon. memory on the chip.

 

[yukari]

I think he's being sarcastic.

 

[Realityck]

To devs today

• iOS 17.4 beta 3 (21E5200d) - February 13, 2024
• iPadOS 17.4 beta 3 (21E5200d) - February 13, 2024
• macOS 14.4 beta 3 (23E5196e) - February 13, 2024
• tvOS 17.4 beta 3 (21L5212d) - February 13, 2024
• visionOS 1.1 beta 2 (21O5188c) - February 13, 2024
• watchOS 10.4 beta 3 (21T5202e) - February 13, 2024

 

[Realityck]

Comparison of 14.4 beta 3 to previous 14.4 beta 2

macOS 14.4 beta 3 (23E5196e)

• Safari Version 17.4 (19618.1.14.11.2)
• System Firmware Version: 10151.100.756 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Wed Feb 7 23:13:07 PST 2024; root:xnu-10063.100.637.501.2~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

macOS 14.4 beta 2 (23E5191e)

• Safari Version 17.4 (19618.1.13.11.5)
• System Firmware Version: 10151.100.753 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Sat Jan 27 14:22:59 PST 2024; root:xnu-10063.100.633~14/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

* Apple Music/TV now 1.4.4.44 was 1.4.4.38

7 days later then 2nd beta

 

[Realityck]

Spoiler: macOS Sonoma 14.4 Beta 3 Release Notes

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 SubscriptionStoreView instances 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(formethod 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)

 

[DoctorMesmer]

Here’s hoping 14.4 turns out to be more stable than the bug-ridden, kernel-panicking mess that is the current version. Things got so bad with my installation of Sonoma that I‘ve had to roll back to Ventura.

 

[luckman212]

How have they shipped 3 betas with completely broken Screen Recording PPPC prefs. None of my screenshot/screen recording/remote desktop tools have worked properly in weeks. Yes I've reported the bug, FB13580551

 

[tywebb13]

New Safari 17.4 beta 3:

build 618E35 for Monterey:

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/39/12/052-54447-A_OQWIRMZ9NZ/eoyt7xkb5uwm74azp0s12npgc6hfb7zurb/Safari17.4MontereyAutoSeed.pkg

build 618E33 for Ventura:

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/25/00/052-57713-A_EAZU18LRPQ/ge4a3sg9l2akef8j5xk6cudlm7ua82mlrd/Safari17.4VenturaAutoSeed.pkg