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MacAdmins.news 2025-12-19

In this week’s MacAdmins.news, we look at the 26.2 Apple platform updates and how they affect(ed) MacAdmins, look at some end-of-year thoughts, and have plenty of new tools and updates! MacAdmins.news will return January 9!

Happy holidays!

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Transmit 5 for Mac released

Panic has updated their awesome file transfer application Transmit for Mac to version 5.

(Transmit iOS is still at version 3. Available on the iOS AppStore.)

I just mentioned Transmit in my post on Transferring files with SSH earlier this week (I just updated the links in that post).

Also, this version of Transmit is no longer available in the Mac AppStore, adding to the ever longer list of applications that are leaving the AppStore. Panic’s reason is that they want to give users a free trial option.

RoaringApps for High Sierra

RoaringApps is a crowd sourced web site, that track compatibility of applications with new and old versions of macOS (and iOS and Windows). They’ve been around for a while (since Lion, hence the name) and have now updated their database for High Sierra and iOS 11.

Bash Completion For Munki

Tony Williams is on a self described roll and has now added bash completion for the Munki tools. See his post for details and my previous post on the autopkg completion for instructions on how to install them without brew.

Source: Now We Have bash Completion For Munki | The Macintosh Guy

(Bonus scripter points for automating the creation of a script…)