{"id":42093,"date":"2024-02-13T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42093"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:24:46","slug":"bumping-macoss-major-version-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/bumping-macoss-major-version-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumping macOS&rsquo;s Major Version Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/social.belkadan.com\/@jrose\/statuses\/01HP7DCRFCSSHHC4VH93Y7NSSC\">Jordan Rose<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/social.belkadan.com\/@jrose\/statuses\/01HP7DCRFCSSHHC4VH93Y7NSSC\">\n<p>There were four good moments for Apple to switch Mac OS version numbers from 10.X to 11 [&#8230;] and they missed all of them, instead eventually tying it to the Apple Silicon switchover (what would have been 10.16).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think about this a lot. They ended up doing it with macOS Big Sur, which had major interface changes in addition to Apple Silicon. The numbers are still out of sync with iOS, and macOS has a lower number even though it&rsquo;s much older. I still see a lot of confusion from people, e.g. an app requires 10.13 or later and they have 12.0 and think it isn&rsquo;t supported.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/08\/rapid-security-response-version-numbers\/\">Rapid Security Response Version Numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0\/\">Big Sur Is Both 10.16 and 11.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/how-to-decode-apple-version-and-build-numbers\/\">How to Decode Apple Version and Build Numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Rose: There were four good moments for Apple to switch Mac OS version numbers from 10.X to 11 [&#8230;] and they missed all of them, instead eventually tying it to the Apple Silicon switchover (what would have been 10.16). I think about this a lot. They ended up doing it with macOS Big Sur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-02-13T21:24:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"dafa6e15-62dc-4c5f-a0f1-f76fc23b43ca","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-02-13T21:24:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2vpuFWLcTF-g8fdvwjtDyg","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":[31,30,1891],"class_list":["post-42093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093","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=42093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42094,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42093\/revisions\/42094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}