![]() ![]() Let’s hope that this brings APFS support for Fusion Drives, and wider access to HEIC and HEVC compression too. The 10.13.2 update has also broken SMB, but that seems to happen at least once during each macOS product cycle, and should be fixed when 10.13.3 is released in a few days. High Sierra’s worst problems have been with inadequate pre-release testing, particularly in security features. in the 10.13.2 update of 07-12-2017, it reached version 748.31.8.Ī few users have had problems with APFS on SSDs, and there are residual compatibility issues with its approach to normalisation, but by and large this major change appears to have progressed quite smoothly.in the Supplemental Update of 05-10-2017, it was at version 748.1.47,.Although still only supported on SSDs, which remains one of High Sierra’s biggest outstanding failings, Apple’s new file system has undergone very rapid development since the release of 10.13: Most of High Sierra’s problems have arisen from a small number of very obvious and serious security gaffes, such as the root user vulnerability.Ĭomparison with the introduction of APFS is valuable. It has required one additional substantial update, which Apple cunningly tried to disguise by calling it a Supplemental Update, which doesn’t seem to have been in the grand plan. By this time in its cycle, El Capitan had had two major updates, but didn’t suffer any early security gaffes.Īt mid-term, then, High Sierra’s record isn’t that much worse than El Capitan or Sierra before it. 414 MB, really 10.11.6.1 with much more than just security fixes.īy 10.11.6, El Capitan still manifested persistent Bluetooth problems including spontaneous disconnections, and persistent freezes on many Mac models. 907 MB, which had many installation issues. 1.3 GB, very slow install, with a lot of major security and bug fixes. Also accompanied by El Capitan Recovery Update 1.0. Another major set of bug fixes and security updates. By this time in its cycle, Sierra had had two major updates, but it lacked glaring errors in security features. Security fixes.Īlthough for many users, Sierra has proved robust and stable, others have found it has left their Macs prone to freezes and panics. Many faced significant installation problems. I was so incensed that I described it as a “shoddy update”. Very extensive fixes, and changed re-installation options in Recovery mode. 1.94 GB, again a very substantial update. 584 MB, with many bug and security fixes. Some Macs became quite unstable, suffering freezes or kernel panics, which didn’t resolve until upgraded to High Sierra. It also introduced a serious bug in DAS/CTS scheduling which leads to backup failure. For many this replaced El Capitan’s freezing problems with kernel slowdowns. A 4.77 GB download, followed by a long and complex installation. Much of the urgency and additional fixes have been in response to a series of glaringly obvious security vulnerabilities, in particular the root user gaffe. So in the first just over three months, we have had three major updates. ![]() A much smaller update, mostly with Safari 11.0.2 to mitigate the risk of Spectre. At 2 GB, another major update with many bug and security fixes. This was an additional fix to the last fix. This was an urgent fix to address the notorious root user vulnerability, and was just over 1 MB. Again, at 2.1 GB it was also catching up with things which should have been fixed before 10.13 was released. This also addressed some important security matters, including the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerabilities. But at 915 MB, it contained more extensive fixes which had missed the original release date. The primary reason for this was to address a glaring encryption password bug in Disk Utility, and a bug allowing malicious apps to extract keychain passwords. There were inevitably some APFS conversion issues, and a few users were quickly begging to go back to Sierra, but most fared well. An initial two-step installer was hurriedly replaced with monolithic, 5.17 GB. As Apple doesn’t let us look at its bug reporting databases, I’ll step through their update records. With all the supplemental updates and kludges to High Sierra, as it approaches the mid-term update to 10.13.3, I am going to step back and compare its life-history with those of Sierra and El Capitan before, to try to get a more objective and less emotive assessment of how it is doing. The police get younger, time passes more quickly, and each major release of macOS is more of a disaster. ![]()
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