Installomator v10.5

We have released an update for installomator which brings it to v10.5. You can can see the details in its release notes page.

With an astounding 78 new labels and updates to 42 existing labels, this brings Installomator to 733 labels. The project has also reached 100 contributors who have put in at least one pull request!

Many thanks to everyone who contributed, whether through pull requests, or by filing issues or by joining in the discussion in the #installomator channel on the Mac Admins Slack.

Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-10-06

Just a short news summary this week, as I am busy presenting today at MacSysAdmin in Gothenburg!


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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-29

Release week part 2! We got macOS Sonoma 14.0 release. If you were running the RC2, that is the same as the release. We also got the first round of iOS 17.1 and macOS Sonoma 14.1 betas! (It’ll be good to have the minor update numbers for iOS and macOS in sync for a change.


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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-15

The Apple event this week, brought the expected iPhone 15 and Apple Watch updates. You can read all about them on Apple’s event page and the usual suspects.


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More importantly for Mac and iOS Admins: iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10 will be released September 18. macOS Sonoma 14.0 will be released September 26. This is four weeks earlier than the release of macOS Ventura. There were RC releases for all beta platforms this week.

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  • David Nelson: “When reading what’s changed in the latest iPhone we tend to get comparisons to the immediate previous model. Not so helpful if you’re coming from a device that’s two or more years old. The “Compare iPhone Models” page helps. It includes devices all the way back to the iPhone 6 and the original SE. For example, I can see the weight and dimensions of my 12 Pro compared to a 15 Pro Max.

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