Monday, September 14, 2026

macOS 27 Golden Gate

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW):

Explore what’s new for macOS 27.

The page is designed in an annoying way that requires sideways scrolling, and there doesn’t seem to be a PDF list of the new features like in previous years.

See also:

Jeff Johnson:

There’s also a DEPRECATION NOTICE at the top of the man page that lists the diskutil replacements for hdiutil subcommands.

Patrick Wardle:

Fixed: launchd no longer supports loading launchd property list files with the quarantine extended attribute.

Dave Nanian:

[Even] though a bootable backup is properly configured to boot, they aren’t showing up as choices in either the startup disk preference pane or the startup picker. (FB24210103, reported quite a while ago, Apple friends.)

Previously:

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-- I agree with @Dave_Nanian. In fact, I was hoping a fix was available on his end. For now? My "workaround" is to KEEP with macOS 15 as long as possible, and if ABSOLUTELY needed, either use my backup MBP for only REQUIRED things. (SD! bootable backups still work there.) In the case of a total disaster, I have found that Erase and Migration Assistant will work with a bootable backup.

-- If he can see my comment (or anyone else who could teach me), I have a question regarding his post. Namely footnote #1. "... and then using bless --mount /Volumes/Backup-Volume --setBoot in Recovery’s Terminal. But don’t unless you really have to..." Why? Is this comparable to me - I never did this - telling someone in the 90s running windows that the console command FDISK stands for "fix disc"?


My bad for not proofreading my comment....

My workaround is keeping my main MBP on macOS 15 as long as possible, and using my MBP running macOS 27 RC in that state as long as possible. I plan to see is macOS 15.7.9 (or ..10 if available) running Xcode 12.3 can still submit to the App Store. It worked in August. That's a task for later this week.


Last comment, I promise!

Xcode 26.3, not 12.3. I have no clue why, but mentally I tell myself it's 12.3. LOL... at least I know why I hope someday to be running OS 27 (or maybe 28...) months everything. They got *that* right IMHO last year - consistent versioning. (Hiding head for the negative reaction to that.)

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