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The end: macOS Tahoe unveiled
Hervé posted an article in News,
WWDC Keynote, June 9th, 2025.
Apple unveiled macOS 26 Tahoe.
As usual, 1st beta version was immediately made available to developers and 1st public beta will be available in July with a final release in the fall.
The major novelty is Liquid Glass that replaces Aqua. And the version numbering, of course, which Apple will now unify across the board (macOS, iOS, etc.).
As expected, this is the very last macOS version to support Intel platforms.
Tahoe drops all systems older than 9th gen. Coffee Lake, 10th gen. Comet Lake/Ice Lake and CascadeLake platforms, i.e. those 8th gen. Coffee Lake MacMini8,1/MacBookPro15,x/iMac19,x and Skylake iMacPro1,1 that had remained supported in Sequoia. Surprisingly, 10th gen. Ice Lake MacBookAir9,1 laptops appear dropped too but, given that 2020 ICL-based MBP16,2 remain supported, those last Intel MBA should nevertheless be able to run Tahoe too -to be confirmed-.
Minimum Intel platform requirements are therefore:
iMac20,x (10th gen. Comet Lake) MacBookPro16,1 (9th gen. Coffee Lake) MacBookPro16,2 (10th gen. Ice Lake) MacPro7,1 (Cascade Lake)-
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macOS Sequoia 15.5 update is out
Hervé posted an article in News,
Released May 12th, 2025.
Build 24F74
Bug fixes and security update. Safe to install on our Hackintosh platforms.
Also released at the same time:
macOS Sonoma Security Update 14.7.x (Build ) macOS Ventura Security Update 13.7.x (Build )-
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Support for Broadcom wireless cards in Sonoma & later (Clover and Opencore)
Hervé posted an article in Tech,
Sonoma dropped support for Broadcom cards that were supported up to Ventura. This has long been stated and a solution based on OpenCore boot loader and the OCLP Patcher has been available since the summer of 2023.
Nothing new on the matter as I post this article in January 2024, except that the solution now works for users of Clover (yes we still exist).
The issue for Clover users was that there was no readily available solution to block vanilla IOSkywalkFamily kext from being loaded at startup, even when trying to do this through patching the Info.plist file of the kext in the clover config. No matte what, as long as the vanilla kext loaded, injecting the replacing kext would result in immediate KP.
This was finally resolved in Clover r5157 which integrate a kext patch in the form of a flag that can be enabled in the Clover config: BlockSkywalk.
With this patch enabled, the abandoned IO80211LegacyFamily from previous macOS version can be loaded/injected and so can the older/replacement version of the IOSkywalkFamily kext that remains required. This being put in place, the OCLP patcher can then be used to apply the wireless root patch (whether Modern wireless or Legacy wireless).
Cards that we all previously used up to Ventura, whether DW1560 (BCM5352 chipset), DW1820A (BCM4350 chipset) or Apple's own BCM94360xxx (BCM4360 and related chipsets) can now be used in macOS Sonoma exactly as they could in Ventura and earlier macOS versions.
See our dedicated thread on the matter for full details.-
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New driver for Realtek PCIe card readers!
Hervé posted an article in Tech,
There's renewed interest on the development of drivers for Realtek PCIe card readers and it's fantastics news!
Last year, we reported here on developper Cholonam's work that gave a new life to some of our Realtek card readers, building on the original work of developper Sinetek. It was pretty good stuff and allowed many of us with, say RTS525a card readers, to finally be able to use SD cards under macOS. Performance was however pretty limited.
This year, Austere.J (aka Firewolf) has embarked on writing a brand new driver and, my God, is it good! The driver is under active development as we write but Austere.J has started on the RTS525a with super results and he's adding support for other Realtek RTS model.
You can follow the on-going R&D here at Insanelymac and drivers are posted here on FireWolf's GitHub repo.
Please join me in helping Austere.J in the testing and give him the support and thanks he deserves.-
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Apple links for older OS X/macOS versions and instructions for bootable installers
Hervé posted a topic in OS X/macOS,
Bronxteck recently reminded us of links Apple publish in relation to creating bootable installers for OS X and macOS from El Capitan 10.11, so here's a link to the related main page:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Very useful as a replacement to the old AppStore method that allowed registered users to re-download an OS X/macOS installation package if they had already done so in the past.
12GB required for USB keys/flash disks.
Whilst the information is obviously meant for Apple Mac computers, it's nevertheless 100% relevant to the 1st phase of creating USB installers for Hackintosh computers, the 2nd phase being the necessary installation of the bootloader (Enoch, Clover or otherwise).-
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