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  • macOS Ventura 13.5 and iOS 16.6

    macOS

    • macOS Ventura 13.5 (22G74): About, Developer Release Notes, Security, no Enterprise notes for 13.5
    • macOS Monterey 12.6.8 (21G725): Security
    • macOS Big Sur 11.7.9 (20G1426): Security

    iOS and iPadOS

    • iOS 16.6: About, no Enterprise notes for 16.6
    • iPadOS 16.6: About, no Enterprise notes for 16.6
    • iOS and iPadOS 16.6: Developer Release Notes, Security
    • iOS and iPadOS 15.7.8: Security

    Guides

    • Apple Platform Deployment Guide: Welcome, What’s new, Document revision history
    • Apple School Manager User Guide: Welcome, Document revision history
    • Apple Business Manager User Guide: Welcome, Document revision history
    • Apple Business Essentials User Guide: Welcome, Document revision history

    Other Platforms

    • watchOS 9.6: About, Developer Release Notes, Security
    • tvOS 16.6: About, Guide, Developer Release Notes, Security
    • HomePod Software 16.4: About
    • Studio Display Firmware Update 16.4: About, Security

    Applications

    • Safari 16.6: Developer Release Notes, Security

    Community

    • What has changed in macOS Ventura 13.5? – Howard Oakley
    • Apple has released Ventura 13.5, Monterey 12.6.8 and Big Sur 11.7.9 – Howard Oakley
    • macOS Ventura 13.5 Update (22G74): What’s New – Mr. Macintosh

    Other updates

    • Jamf Pro 10.48.2 (10.48.1, 10.48.0)
    • Jamf Connect 2.25.0
    • IBM Notifier 3.0.0
    • swiftDialog 2.3.0 Beta 2
    • XCreds 3.1
    • Setup Your Mac 1.12.0-rc3
    2023-07-25

  • Links — 2023-07-07

    We got the third set of betas for macOS Sonoma and iOS 17 this week. I hope your testing is going well. Mine actually is, so far.


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    Summer is in full swing and the number of posts and articles is declining as people are taking well deserved breaks. This means that this news summary will also go on summer break. It will return on September 9, with a large summary of what happened over the summer, just in time for the final stretch of beta releases and testing before the Fall releases.

    That doesn’t mean you won’t hear anything from me. I am planning to use the time to write and finish a few articles that I have been tinkering with and work on some other projects that I have been mulling about. If something really interesting happens that is relevant to MacAdmins I will post about it.

    I also plan to post and re-share interesting links on my Mastodon account. With all the turbulence in the social media space, that is the service I am using most right now. There is a nicely sized community of MacAdmins and related experts in the Fediverse now. I will also be (as always) active on the MacAdmins Slack.

    I hope you get to enjoy a well-deserved break or at least a bit of a quieter time. See you in September!

    If you would rather get the weekly newsletter by email, you can subscribe to the Scripting OS X Weekly Newsletter here!! (Same content, delivered to your Inbox once a week.)

    🔐Security and Privacy

    • JokerSpy: Unknown Adversary Targeting Organizations with Multi-Stage macOS Malware – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne
    • BlueNoroff: How DPRK’s macOS RustBucket Seeks to Evade Analysis and Detection – Phil Stokes, SentinelOne

    🔨Support and HowTos

    • How macOS installers changed – Howard Oakley
    • How to Identify and Eliminate Abusive Web Notifications – Adam Engst, TidBITS
    • How to diagnose and control login and background items – Howard Oakley
    • The journey to Munki and Intune – Tobias Almen
    • What is iOS Kiosk Mode? – Andrea Pepper, SimpleMDM
    • How to get the right app to open a document and fix LaunchServices problems – Howard Oakley
    • Jamf Pro Framework Not Installing or Redeploying – Isaac Ordonez
    • macOS Screenshots mini-game easymode – Jim Zajkowski

    🤖Scripting and Automation

    • Listing and downloading available macOS installers using Apple’s softwareupdate tool – Rich Trouton
    • AzureAD/Apple-SSO-Tools: Apple Enterprise SSO troubleshooting script
    • Swift mountshare command line tool – Erik Hemmeter

    ♻️Updates and Releases

    • OWC launches MacDrive 11 to bring APFS support to Windows – Andrew O’Hara, AppleInsider

    🎧To Listen

    • Operating Systems for Businesses (Part 2) – Mac Admins Podcast
    • Virtualization in the age of Apple Silicon – Apple @ Work Podcast, 9to5Mac
    • WWDC 2023 Recap – Jamf After Dark
    • Of sharks, surveillance, and spied on emails – Lock and Code, Malwarebytes Labs

    🎈Just for Fun

    • Touch Grass – Basic Apple Guy

    📚Support

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    • macOS Terminal and Shell
    • Moving to zsh
    • Packaging for Apple Administrators
    2023-07-07

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