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    macOS Sonoma unveiled

    WWDC June 5th, 2023.
    Today, Apple unveiled macOS 14 Sonoma.
    As usual, 1st beta version is available to developers with immediate effect and 1st public beta will be available in July with a final release in the fall.
     

     

     

     
    With Apple now completing its move to Apple Silicon (Mac Pro now switching to M2, it was the last platform still running on Intel platform), Sonoma appears to drop official support for Intel 7th gen. Kaby Lake platforms, as expected, the iMacPro remaining the exception as per Ventura. We can expect 8th/9th gen. Amber Lake/Coffee Lake to be dropped next year and final 10th gen. Comet Lake/Ice Lake in 2025.
     
    Minimum platform requirements are therefore:
    iMac19,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake) iMacPro1,1 (Skylake Xeon) MacBookAir8,1 (8th gen. Amber Lake) MacBookPro15,x (8th gen. Coffee Lake) Macmini8,1 (8th gen Coffee Lake) MacPro7,1 (Cacade Lake)

    macOS Ventura is out

    Released Oct 24th, 2022 as announced.
    Version 13.0, build 22A380.
     
     

     

     

     
    Ventura drops support for Intel Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake platforms that remained officially supported in Monterey. Patches are available to regain graphics acceleration though. This time, Apple raised minimal requirements to Kaby Lake platforms (with the exception of iMacPro1,1):
    iMac18,1 (Kaby Lake) iMacPro1,1 (Skylake) Macmini8,1 (Coffee Lake) MacBook10,1 (Kaby Lake) MacBookAir8,1 (Amber Lake) MacBookPro14,1 (Kaby Lake) MacPro7,1 (Cascade Lake) On the AMD front, it's Polaris minimum.
     
    Also released at the same time:
    macOS Monterey 12.6.1 Security Update (build 21G217) macOS Big Sur 11.7.1 Security Update (build 20G918)  
    NB: macOS Catalina is now officially unsupported.

    macOS Monterey is out

    Released Oct 25th, 2021 as announced.
    Version 12.0.1, build 21A559.
     

     

     

     
    Monterey drops all support for Ivy Bridge HD4000 and nVidia Kepler. Patches are available to regain graphics acceleration though. This time, Apple raised minimal requirements to Haswell/Broadwell/Skylake graphics depending on platform (MacBook Air/MacBook Pro/iMac/Mac mini/MacBook).
     
    Also released at the same time:
    macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 (build 20G224) Security update 2021-007 for Catalina 10.15.7 (build 19H1519)  
    NB: macOS Mojave is now officially unsupported.
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