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Now, Apple has the patch number position in their versions available to use for more clarity in these cases. We’ve seen new Mac’s ship with special versions/builds of macOS before and in those cases it was just a build number difference with the same version number and was also very confusing. I think what we are seeing here with 11.0.1 is sneaky stuff on Apple’s part because of Apple Silicon, as mentioned my Mr. renaming to macOS) and now versioning consistency (new major versions every year) only to immediately break that versioning consistency for macOS. I don’t believe Apple would work so diligently over the last few years to bring all their OSes into more naming consistency (ie. I’m very doubtful about your theory here as well. There’s an added complication just now: the release notes have mysteriously vanished too! 1 release has been in late October, and we’re already well into November now. 1 version of a new major release about a month after the initial release, but broke that with 10.15 being released on 7 October, and 10.15.1 on 29 October. Really? Why doesn’t Apple roll those fixes into the 11.0 release? Sure, the Apple Silicon Macs which we all expect would be running an unpatched 11.0, but Apple has quite often released a patch specifically for new hardware which is delivered with a slightly older build of macOS.Īpple has generally aimed to release the.

Second, if 11.0 is released on or shortly after 10 November, then if 11.0.1 is due for release “within days” it would be released at about the same time. If 11.0.1 is just a patch update, why the beta release, and why number it beta 1?

#MACOS BIG SUR 11.0 UPDATE#

Take 10.15.7 or today’s Supplemental Update to it. Unless, of course, Apple changes its corporate thinking again.įirst, Apple very seldom releases minor patches, or even more substantial fixes, as betas. Unless of course we’ve a whole year of betas of 11.0.1 to look forward to.Īnyone who needs to plan ahead when coping with version numbers for macOS can therefore safely expect the next year to take it from 11.0.0 to 11.0.6 or thereabouts, with 11.1.0 due next autumn/fall. So in a year or so’s time when the next ‘major’ version of macOS is expected, pandemics notwithstanding, we should expect macOS 11.1 rather than 11.0.1. Just recently, and before the release of the first version of Big Sur 11.0 or 11.0.0, Apple released to beta-testers the first beta of the first update to Big Sur, and numbered that macOS 11.0.1 beta 1, as widely reported in the press and in Apple’s own release notes.

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But back in the days before Mac OS X, that was what was used, some of the time at least. So macOS 10.15.7 is the seventh patch in minor version 15 of major version 10 – you see, they weren’t following it anyway. To recap, Apple’s ‘official’ version numbering system uses three numbers: a major version, minor version, and a patch. I think that Apple has already answered that question for us. When we were all worrying about how we’d cope with the sudden change in version numbering in macOS 11 Big Sur, one unanswered question was how numbering would work after 11.0.

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