Where are the standalone updater for Mojave and Catalina?

[camelia]

Hello Forum,

This is the first time I have to wait more than a week because Apple still hasn't released the standalone updater for macOS Mojave SU 2021-004 and macOS Catalina SU 2021-003 at https://support.apple.com/downloads

Maybe they want us to give us a preview of the "macOS Big Sur experience"?

Apple has stopped providing standalone installers for macOS updates

Camelia

 

[Apple_Robert]

Apple is still releasing full installers for Big Sur. The article you linked to is old.

I don't know why Apple isn't making the full installer available to you for Catalina or Mojave.

 

[JoeInMilwaukee]

I, too, am patiently waiting for these standalone Security Update installers!

I prefer to download them from work on a PC (using my employer's super-fast internet connection). From home it would take me several hours to download just the Catalina security update (900 kbps max download speed). To update my mom's Mac from her home would take even longer (550 kbps max download speed).

Come on, Apple! 😟

 

[bogdanw]

Security Update 2021-004 (Mojave) https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2074
Security Update 2021-003 (Catalina) https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2075

 

[JoeInMilwaukee]

AWESOME! Thank you so very much!

Just for the heck of it I started downloading the Catalina update from home:

Wow, I'm getting 123 KB/sec (984 Kb/sec) this evening, a little faster than usual.

DOWNLOAD CANCELLED! I'll download it from work first thing tomorrow.

 

[camelia]

Hello

What does it mean?

Thanks
Camelia

 

[JoeInMilwaukee]

It looks as though "FV" refers to File Vault encryption.

 

[lcubed]

any idea on how to install these on machines which are not connected to the network?

installed the standalone 2021-003 successfully on my networked connected machine,
but the installer fails almost immediately on our test machine which cannot be attached to the network.

both machines started from catalina 19H524

 

[JoeInMilwaukee]

When I've installed the last several standalone Catalina security updates on my 2018 Mac mini, the installer has had to download additional data (approximately 400-500 MB) before performing the actual installations. From what I can tell this data is new Boot ROM firmware. In fact, if I use Software Update under System Preferences on my Mac mini to check for new software updates, the sizes of the security updates show as being 400-500 MB larger than the standalone installers.

Since Boot ROM firmware would be Mac model-specific, it's not included in the standalone installers. Unfortunately, I don't know how to go about downloading it separately.