![]() The pressure was on, with the release date set at 15 July. These were sufficient to take its build number from 319 to 319.60.100, but left its version number unchanged. Last summer, Dave (as I’ll call them) had some changes to make in the Rich Text Spotlight importer for Catalina 10.15.6. Between those is scope for what used to be called Supplemental Updates, now patches such as 11.2.1, which have to be added to address the unexpected. All this has to take place to tight deadlines: the six or more scheduled updates, such as macOS 11.2, within each annual major macOS release cycle don’t occur when everything happens to reach maturity, but are driven by the calendar. Documentation is then updated, and the product or component is released. Software development has a traditional cycle, in which engineers code and test repeatedly until they’re confident that changed features are correct and robust, and that everything else still works as intended. It’s those that don’t, often key tools like Disk Utility, which are marred by obvious bugs. ![]() When I check through updates to macOS for incremented build and version numbers, there are usually hundreds if not thousands, the great majority of which run as intended. Of course, this is a small minority of the new and changed code that Apple’s engineers create. In the last week or so, I’ve come across some real howlers: the Rich Text Spotlight importer which can’t import the content of RTF documents, Bluetooth status which is never up to date when you first check it, and most recently Big Sur installers and updaters which don’t work on external SSDs connected to M1 Macs.Įach time, I ask whether Apple tests its software before release, as the evidence that I’m seeing suggests that many changes are only tested by users after that version of macOS has been released. In recent years, I’ve grown concerned – as many of you have – at the increasing number of obvious bugs in release versions of macOS. ![]()
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