Another week, another iOS update. And also another macOS Catalina… Supplemental… Update?
As a Mac admin, I am getting envious of iOS system version numbering.
While I grumble about the nomenclature, the “Supplemental Update” fixed the persisting request to log in to iCloud i had on my MacBook, so it is welcome, whatever it is called.
Note: because of travel and vacation, there will be no Newsletter next week, October 25. The newsletter will be back on November 1!
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On Scripting OS X
- New Book: Moving to zsh (Now available for pre-order)
- Packaging Book Update: v1.10
News and Opinion
- Last Week on My Mac: More than adventurous – Howard Oakley
- Why We Charge for Upgrades – Tim Perfitt, Twocanoes Software
MacAdmins on Twitter
- mikeymikey: “32-bit Intel Macs: Introduced 13 years ago – stopped shipping that same year. Every since has been 64-bit. 10.7 Lion: Launched 8 years ago in 2011 – required 64-bit. macOS had warnings about 32-bit app launches in 10.13 and 10.14. Why was ANY dev shipping 32-bit -only-?” (Thread)
- Erik Schwiebert: “It took us /years/ to get rid of the Carbon code in Office and make the switch to 64-bit. And we were done in 2016…”
- John Goering: “A WWDC slide from a more civilized time in Apple’s history.” (Image)
- Armin Briegel: “System Image Utility is gone from macOS Catalina. It is not possible to build a NetBoot or NetInstall nbi based on Catalina. (You can probably hack one together, this is not meant as a challenge.) No currently sold Mac model is able to NetBoot. NetBoot is dead.”
macOS Catalina
- Has Apple just pushed the first Catalina-only security update? – Howard Oakley
- macOS Catalina and Fleetsmith: Everything You Need to Know
- Apple has added a new security database to Catalina, bringing 3 updates – Howard Oakley
- macOS 10.15 Catalina Supplemental Update is now available (updated) – The Eclectic Light Company
- macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update (19A602) Released
- macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 Release Notes
- What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 (19B77a) – Mr. Macintosh
Bugs and Security
- Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15 – Michael Tsai
- Living off the Orchard: Leveraging Apple Remote Desktop for Good and Evil – Jake Nicastro, Willi Ballenthin, FireEye
- Pass the AppleJeus – Objective-See
- Every OS X/ macOS Security white paper
- Every iOS Security Guide
- Apple Bulletin: Mac Mini users should not upgrade to Catalina – MacRumors Forums
Support and HowTos
- Managing macOS Catalina’s FileVault 2 with fdesetup – Rich Trouton
- Most Apple apps installed with the OS have a new filesystem location – Rich Trouton
- The macOS user template directories have a new filesystem location on macOS Catalina Rich Trouton (comment from William Smith)
- Enabling root on a Mac which hasn’t gone through macOS Catalina’s Setup Assistant – Rich Trouton (comment from Erik Gomez)
- Does Safe Mode check and repair disks? – Howard Oakley
- BBStylish: Attractive, customisable BBEdit Preview CSS for Markdown – Ryan Dotson
- Use preferences to manage privacy controls for Office on iOS devices – Microsoft Docs (via Joey Frijters)
- Certificate used to sign older Apple software expiring on October 24, 2019 – Rich Trouton
- Catalina Notarization – Michael Tsai
Scripting and Automation
- Web Server Bash One Liner for Linux or Mac – Charles Edge
- Scripting the Temp and Cache Directories on a Mac – Charles Edge
- BBEdit 13 Simplifies Pattern-Based Searching – Adam Engst, TidBITS
- Managing ignored system updates on macOS with Puppet – Paul Galow
- Using Munki to ignore Catalina upgrade in macOS – Alan Siu
- Convert File Encoding Types – Charles Edge
- Syncing User Data from G Suite to Active Directory with Python and LDAP – Jeremy Baker
- Managed App Notifications.sh – William Smith (updated)
Apple Support
- About the read-only system volume in macOS Catalina
- Upcoming Scheduled Maintenance on October 20: App Store Connect and Notarization Servers
- About iPadOS 13.1.3
- About iOS 13.1.3
Updates and Releases
- Apple issues rare update to AirPort Utility application on iOS – Chance Miller, 9to5Mac
- WhiteBox Packages 1.2.7
- Jamf Pro 10.16.0
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