{"id":37433,"date":"2022-10-25T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37433"},"modified":"2022-11-10T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:20:23","slug":"macos-12-6-1-and-macos-11-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/25\/macos-12-6-1-and-macos-11-7-1\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 12.6.1 and macOS 11.7.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213494\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/36\/13\/012-90254-A_BJQ1VMPD44\/z225i7bzise31eo21e4kgfkafz7zq0q9tu\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-monterey-12-6-1-update-21g217-whats-new\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213494\">\n<p>This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.1.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1584660838128193536\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1584660838128193536\">\n<p>macOS 12.6.1 once again uninstalled Rosetta<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213493\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/62\/53\/012-90253-A_05NBWHTA4J\/wk1on4mznvduz1jbd0javp5p1zid5z5uvn\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-big-sur-11-7-1-20g918-update-whats-new\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213493\">\n<p>This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.1.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/25\/macos-13-0-ventura\/\">macOS 13.0 Ventura<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/12\/macos-12-6-and-macos-11-7\/\">macOS 12.6 and macOS 11.7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-12-6-1-and-macos-11-7-1-update-2022-10-27\">Update (2022-10-27): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1585165090134773760\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/1585165090134773760\">\n<p>How can there be so many more security fixes in macOS Ventura than in the latest Monterey 12.6.1 update? They can&rsquo;t possibly have rewritten all these components in a year&#8230; that&rsquo;s ~60 vs 3 vulnerabilities fixed. (So... update fast!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/10\/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched\/\">Andrew Cunningham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/10\/apple-clarifies-security-update-policy-only-the-latest-oses-are-fully-patched\/\"><p>Apple released <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/guide\/deployment\/about-software-updates-depc4c80847a\/web\">a document clarifying its terminology and policies<\/a> around software upgrades and updates. Most of the information in the document isn&rsquo;t new, but the company did provide one clarification about its update policy that it hadn&rsquo;t made explicit before: Despite providing security updates for multiple versions of macOS and iOS at any given time, Apple says that only devices running the most recent major operating system versions should expect to be fully protected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"macos-12-6-1-and-macos-11-7-1-update-2022-11-01\">Update (2022-11-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/updates-and-upgrades\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/updates-and-upgrades\/\">\n<p>It is not a great sign when official documentation misuses the word &ldquo;integer&rdquo; in a sentence that immediately negates the previous paragraph&rsquo;s explanation for how Apple differentiates software updates and software upgrades.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (full installer, Mr. Macintosh): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.6.1. Jeff Johnson: macOS 12.6.1 once again uninstalled Rosetta Apple (full installer, Mr. Macintosh): This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.7.1. Previously: macOS 13.0 Ventura macOS 12.6 and macOS 11.7 Update (2022-10-27): Peter Steinberger: How can there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-10-25T21:16:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"12828770-ec94-404f-bc1c-0d9b69848770","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-10T13:20:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEoKHcOyUQE-8HA2baYSHcA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1891,2077,2303,1025,48],"class_list":["post-37433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-macos-12","tag-macos-release","tag-rosetta","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37531,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37433\/revisions\/37531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}