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macOS 27 Golden Gate and the other 27 platforms arrive

macOS macOS 27 Golden Gate (26A428): What’s new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, Compatibility, IPSW, Installer PKG macOS Tahoe 26.7 (25G229): What's new, Security macOS Sequoia 15.8 (24H23): What's new, Security iOS and iPadOS iOS 27: About, Enterprise iPad OS 27: About, Enterprise iOS 26.7: About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.7: About, …

New phones, new watches, and new platform upgrades next week!

Goodbye, Tim. Best of luck, John.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

26.6 updates and a security patch for macOS

macOS macOS Tahoe 26.6 (25G84): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.8 (24G824): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.8 (23J620): What's new, Security Safari 26.6: WebKit Features, Developer Release Notes, Security Xcode 26.6: Mac App Store, Developer Downloads, Developer Release Notes…

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

Summer heats up with 26.6 and 27.0 betas, security patches and lots of app and tool updates

Temperatures and component prices put the heat on Apple and our wallets

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of scriptingosx.com

Entering the lull before WWDC.

All the 26.5 updates

macOS macOS Tahoe 26.5 (25G71): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.7 (24G720): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.7 (23J520): What's new, Security iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.5: About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.5: About, Enterprise iOS and iPadOS 26.5: Developer Release Notes Security: …

Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise report card and 26.5 goes release candidate

We organized a conference and had a blast!

This week on MacAdmins news: third round of 26.5 betas and Apple is getting a new CEO. Vision accessibility, conferences, security and automation posts.

Third round of 26.5 betas and Apple is getting a new CEO.

Welcome Apple Business

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

macOS macOS Tahoe 26.4 (25E246: What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.5 (24G624): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.5 (23J423): What's new, Security, PKG installer iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.4: About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.4: About, Enterprise iOS and iPadOS 26.4: Developer Release Notes…

The 26.4 updates have been released and among the many documented changes, there is one that the Apple documentation team seems to have missed to tell us about. There are now several url schemes and file types which will prompt for user confirmation when the default app is changed. What happened so far Some years ago—I believe it was in macOS High Sierra 10.13—Apple added a prompt for the user when an app or process changed the default application for…

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

I have created a new version of quickpkg, you can get it here. If all you care about is the new version of quickpkg, go follow the link. There are also a few new features. Hope you like them. Full disclosure: I used Claude Code to create this new version. I recently got access to Claude Code through work and I chose quickpkg as an experiment to understand where modern “agentic” coding tools are and how they fit in my workflows, coding and learning processes.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

macOS macOS Tahoe 26.3 (25D125): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security, Enterprise, IPSW, PKG installer macOS Sequoia 15.7.4 (24G517): What's new, Security, PKG installer macOS Sonoma 14.8.4 (23J319): What's new, Security, PKG installer iOS and iPadOS iOS 26.3 About, Enterprise iPadOS 26.3: About, Enterprise iOS 18.7.5: About iPadOS 18.7.5: …

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

The apps formerly known as iWork: Keynote, Pages, and Numbers received an update this week. Generally these updates aren't that big of a deal, but this one is different, especially for macOS administrators. The three apps formerly known as iWork have been available as standalone apps on macOS for a long time. First, as standalone paid apps, then in a bundle and then in the App Store as a one-time-purchase, later for free.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

I have introduced the Swift Argument Parser package before. I have been using this package in many of my tools, such as swift-prefs, utiluti, emoji-list and, just recently, translate. Argument Parser is a Swift package library which adds complex argument, option, and flag parsing to command line tools built with Swift. The documentation is generally quite thorough, but a few subjects are a little, well…, under-documented.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

Unusual Friday night release of the Apple platform updates. Might be because Apple was pushing close to the 90-day deferral limit for 26.0, as I speculated in MacAdmins.news yesterday. Either that or Apple developers are just eager to go on their holiday breaks. (Can't blame them...) macOS macOS Tahoe 26.2 (25C56): What's new, Developer Release Notes, Security…

The case of the missing 26.2 update

Executive re-shuffling

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.

Fifteen years ago today I published the first post on this website. Turned out a bit lucky that the first post still holds up fairly well today, even though there was a somewhat recent update. The second post did not age so well. I started out the weblog because I was reading a lot of other Mac admins' web blogs and thought: "I can do that, too." And it turns out that I could, even though it took quite a few years of infrequent and mostly ignored posts to find my voice, rhythm, and audience.

A weekly summary of news, blog posts, updates and other links for Apple device management and security professionals, curated by Armin Briegel of Scripting OS X.