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Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 update improves the stability, performance, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Adds support for external graphics processors (eGPUs)<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Enables sorting Safari bookmarks by name or URL by right clicking and choosing ‘Sort By…’<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Displays privacy icons and links to explain how your data will be used and protected when Apple features ask to use your personal information<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

So far the update has worked fine for me except that (like most of the recent ones) it got stuck with a black screen for several hours. Eventually I power cycled the iMac, and then (after a few more auto-reboots) the update completed.<\/p>\n\n

Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Maybe next we’ll be able to sort the App Store app’s Purchased tab by alpha…who am I kidding, that’s real rocket science.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I caught myself wondering whether this dialog was the first UI change to the Mac App Store in 5 years, and then I felt sad<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The latest update to High Sierra, bringing it to 10.13.4, does fix the bug discovered by Sarah Edwards when making an APFS encrypted volume in Disk Utility – in both its original form (fixed in 10.13.2) and the form which remained into 10.13.3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The update also introduces the smoke cloud wallpaper that was previously only available on the iMac Pro[…]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

David J. Loehr<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Would you look at that. @Apple updated the Photos app and managed to eliminate a few thousand photos.<\/p>\n

I hope they turn up sometime.<\/p>\n

Because I put them there manually because I don’t use or trust iCloud Photo Library since that deleted several hundred photos a few years ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Avatron Software<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Air Display users: Please don’t update your host Mac to macOS 10.13.4. It introduces severe WindowServer bugs that crash most inelegantly when you connect to a virtual monitor like Air Display (or its competitors). 10.13.3 still works fine. Hopefully Apple will fix 10.13.4 soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Dave Howell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Thanks to App Store policy, we cannot change Air Display 3’s app description, to warn that macOS 10.13.4 kernel panics when you connect to Air Display, when we submit a new version of the iOS app. But a new version won’t be approved because the host crashes. Sigh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple has just released 10.13.4<\/a>, which includes support for HEIC \/ HEIF encoding (support for reading HEIC was introduced in 10.13). And if you’ve already updated to Acorn 6.1<\/a>, the option to export your image as HEIC will now appear for you in the Web Export window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget that macOS 10.13.4 has a 64-bit-only mode, which you’ll want to turn on as a Mac developer to see if your apps still function correctly. Users can give it a go too just to see what’s about to break forever in the next macOS…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve<\/a> Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you happen to want Messages in iCloud in macOS 10.13.4, the checkbox shows up in Messages if you have an empty \/AppleInternal folder… Do with this information what you will — but there’s clearly a reason why it hasn’t shipped yet for the public, so be warned<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously: macOS 10.13 High Sierra Released<\/a>, Hello HEIF<\/a>, High Sierra Stored APFS Volume Passwords in Log Files<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-04-01): macOS 10.13.4 seems to have fixed a bug I was seeing since 10.13.0 with Preview thinking PDF files were dirty as soon as I’d opened them.<\/p>\n\n

On one Mac, the installer left behind a macOS Install Data<\/tt> folder.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-04-02): Guilherme Rambo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ok, “stable” build of High Sierra finally installed. After several minutes of Spotlight and kernel_task using 300% CPU, I now have only 200mb disk space left (I had 70gb before)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-04-04): David Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some fixes in iOS 11.3\/macOS 10.13.4<\/p>\n