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The macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Update 19F96 is now Available.
MacOS Catalina, aka macOS 10.15, is the newest version of the operating system that runs on the Mac. MacOS Catalina's name was inspired by Santa Catalina Island, popularly known as Catalina. What’s New in the macOS SDK. Learn about the key technologies and capabilities available in the macOS SDK, the toolkit you use to build apps for Mac. For detailed information on API changes in the latest released versions, including each beta release, see the macOS Release Notes.
The much anticipated macOS Catalina 10.15.5 update is live! The update is now available for download as a full installer.app, delta and combo update. This update looks like it includes a fix for the MacBook Pro 16″ wake from sleep Kernel Panic Issue! Let’s take a look at the Catalina 10.15.5 Update 19F96 to find out what’s new. The update also includes a fix for the GPU Freezing issue with some Macs with an Intel Only Graphics Chip.
UPDATE 06/02/20 – Apple just released a 10.15.5 Supplemental Update. I have the info here – https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-catalina-10-15-5-supplemental-update-19f101-cve-2020-9859/
UPDATE 05/27/20 – I wrote an article on the changes to the
softwareupdate --ignore
flag and what it means for MacAdmins. mrmacintosh.com/10-15-5-2020-003-updates-changes-to-softwareupdate-ignore/10.15.5 Patch Notes Summary
- 2 Announcements
- 3 New Features
- 8 Resolved Issues
- 5 Enterprise Fixes
- 41 Security Fixes
Apple’s Public Patch Notes / Release Notes Documentation
NOTE: Apple Documentation takes a little while to show up online after release. I will update when the new articles are made available.
For more detailed information about this update and previous updates, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210642
Previous 10.15 Releases + Previous Patch Notes
- 10. 10.15.5 = (19F96) May 26, 2020
- 9. 10.15.4 = (19E287) April 8th, 2020
- 8. 10.15.4 = (19E266) March 24th 2020
- 7. 10.15.3 = (19D76) January 28th 2020
- 6. 10.15.2 = (19C57) December 10th 2019
- 5. 10.15.1 = (19B2106) November 13th 2019
- 4. 10.15.1 = (19B88) October 29th 2019
- 3. 10.15.0 = (19A603) October 21st 2019
- 2. 10.15.0 = (19A602) October 15th 2019
- 1. 10.15.0 = (19A583) October 7th 2019
Catalina 10.15.5 Info & Download Links
Delta Update
The “Delta” update is smaller in size because it only includes fixes for the previous point release only.
Download Link – https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2039
Size = 2.98 GB
Product ID = 061-78581
Requirements = 10.15.4
Combo Update
The “Combo” update is for all previous versions of Catalina.
Download Link – https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2040
Size = 4.76 GB
Product ID = 061-78580
Requirements = 10.15.0, 10.15.1, 10.15.2, 10.15.3 or 10.15.4
Full Installer.app
Link – Catalina 10.15.5 Mac App Store
Size = 8.73 GB
Product ID = 061-78580
Requirements – 10.15 Catalina Requirements
T2 BridgeOS Update
T2 BridgeOS was updated along with the 10.15.5 update.
Size = 392.8 MB
Product ID = 061-70034
BridgeOS Update Version = 17.16.15290
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Catalina 10.15.5 Update 19F96 Overview
macOS Catalina 10.15.5 introduces battery health management in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, an option to control automatic prominence of video tiles on Group FaceTime calls, and controls to fine-tune the built-in calibration of your Pro Display XDR. The update also improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.
Battery Health Management
- Battery health management to help maximize battery lifespan for Mac notebooks
- Energy Saver preference pane now displays battery condition and recommends if the battery needs to be serviced
- Option to disable battery health management
For more information, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211094
FaceTime Prominence Preference
- Option to control automatic prominence on Group FaceTime calls so video tiles do not change size when a participant speaks
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- Controls to fine-tune the built-in calibration of your Pro Display XDR by adjusting the white point and luminance for a precise match to your own display calibration target
This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.
- Fixes an issue that may prevent Reminders from sending notifications for recurring reminders
- Addresses an issue that may prevent password entry on the login screen
- Fixes an issue where System Preferences would continue to show a notification badge even after installing an update
- Resolves an issue where the built-in camera may not be detected when trying to use it after using a video conferencing app
- Addresses an issue for Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Chip where internal speakers may not appear as a sound output device in Sound preferences
- Fixes a stability issue with uploading and downloading media files from iCloud Photo Library while your Mac is asleep
- Resolves a stability issue when transferring large amounts of data to RAID volumes
- Fixes an issue where the Reduce Motion Accessibility preference did not reduce the speed of animations in a FaceTime group call
Enterprise Fixes
- Improves performance on certain Mac models when enabling hardware acceleration in GPU-intensive apps such as those used for video conferencing.
- Addresses an issue where Microsoft Exchange accounts were unable to sign in during account setup when using Conditional Access.
- Resolves an issue that prevented some displays connected to MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) from waking from sleep when the Mac wakes
- Single sign-on (SSO) works immediately after installing an app that contains a third party SSO extension.
- Apple Push Notification Service traffic now uses a web proxy when specified in a PAC file via the Proxies payload
Announcements
Software Update
For increased security, major releases of macOS are not hidden when using the
Starting with macOS 10.15.4, major releases of macOS can be deferred for up to 90 days using MDM.
For increased security, major releases of macOS are not hidden when using the
--ignore
flag and the softwareupdate
command starting with macOS 10.15.5. A major release is defined as one which receives a name, such as macOS Catalina.Starting with macOS 10.15.4, major releases of macOS can be deferred for up to 90 days using MDM.
More on this here – mrmacintosh.com/10-15-5-2020-003-updates-changes-to-softwareupdate-ignore/
networksetup Command
Starting with macOS 10.15.5, the
networksetup
command behaves differently when run as a standard user versus an admin user. Standard users can do the following:• 1. Read various network settings
• 2. Turn Wi-Fi power on or off (networksetup -setairportpower en0 on)
• 3. Change the Wi-Fi access point (networksetup -setairportnetwork en0
ExampleWiFiAP)
Other network settings can no longer be modified by standard users via
networksetup
.For admin users, networksetup will continue to behave as it has in previous releases of macOS, provided System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Advanced… > “Require an administrator password to access system-wide preferences” is unchecked (which is the default state). If it is checked, admins will be bound by the same constraints as standard users when
using networksetup.
Security Content for 10.15.5
Catalina 10.15.5 Update 19F96
-->Important
Welcome to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the new name for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. Read more about this and other updates here. We'll be updating names in products and in the docs in the near future.
Important
In preparation for macOS 11 Big Sur, we are getting ready to release an update to Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac that will leverage new system extensions instead of kernel extensions. Apple will stop supporting kernel extensions starting macOS 11 Big Sur version. Therefore an update to the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent is required on all eligible macOS devices prior to moving these devices to macOS 11.
The update is applicable to devices running macOS version 10.15.4 or later.
To ensure that the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac update is delivered and applied seamlessly from an end-user experience perspective, a new remote configuration must be deployed to all eligible macOS devices before Microsoft publishes the new agent version. If the configuration is not deployed prior to the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent update, end-users will be presented with a series of system dialogs asking to grant the agent all necessary permissions associated with the new system extensions.
Timing:
- Organizations that previously opted into Microsoft Defender ATP preview features in Microsoft Defender Security Center, must be ready for Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent update by August 10, 2020.
- Organizations that do not participate in public previews for Microsoft Defender ATP features, must be ready by September 07, 2020.
Action is needed by IT administrator. Review the steps below and assess the impact on your organization:
- Deploy the specified remote configuration to eligible macOS devices before Microsoft publishes the new agent version.
Even though Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac new implementation based on system extensions is only applicable to devices running macOS version 10.15.4 or later, deploying configuration proactively across the entire macOS fleet will ensure that even down-level devices are prepared for the day when Apple releases macOS 11 Big Sur and will ensure that Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac continues protecting all macOS devices regardless OS version they were running prior to the Big Sur upgrade. - Refer to this documentation for detailed configuration information and instructions: New configuration profiles for macOS Catalina and newer versions of macOS.
- Monitor this page for an announcement of the actual release of MDATP for Mac agent update.
101.10.72
- Bug fixes
101.09.61
- Added a new managed preference for disabling the option to send feedback
- Status menu icon now shows a healthy state when the product settings are managed. Previously, the status menu icon was displaying a warning or error state, even though the product settings were managed by the administrator
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
101.09.50
- This product version has been validated on macOS Big Sur 11 beta 9ImportantExtensive testing of MDE (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) with new macOS system extensions revealed an intermittent issue that impacts macOS devices with specific graphic cards models. In rare cases on impacted macOS devices calls into macOS system extensions were seen resulting in kernel panic. Microsoft is actively working with Apple engineering to clarify profile of impacted devices and to address this macOS issue.
- The new syntax for the
mdatp
command-line tool is now the default one. For more information on the new syntax, see Resources for Microsoft Defender ATP for MacNoteThe old command-line tool syntax will be removed from the product on January 1st, 2021. - Extended
mdatp diagnostic create
with a new parameter (--path [directory]
) that allows the diagnostic logs to be saved to a different directory - Performance improvements & bug fixes
101.09.49
- User interface improvements to differentiate exclusions that are managed by the IT administrator versus exclusions defined by the local user
- Improved CPU utilization during on-demand scans
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
101.07.23
- Added new fields to the output of
mdatp --health
for checking the status of passive mode and the EDR group IDNotemdatp --health
will be replaced withmdatp health
in a future product update. - Fixed a bug where automatic sample submission was not marked as managed in the user interface
- Added new settings for controlling the retention of items in the antivirus scan history. You can now specify the number of days to retain items in the scan history and specify the maximum number of items in the scan history
- Bug fixes
101.06.63
- Addressed a performance regression introduced in version
101.05.17
. The regression was introduced with the fix to eliminate the kernel panics some customers have observed when accessing SMB shares. We have reverted this code change and are investigating alternative ways to eliminate the kernel panics.
101.05.17
Important
We are working on a new and enhanced syntax for the
mdatp
command-line tool. The new syntax is currently the default in the Insider Fast and Insider Slow update channels. We encourage you to famliliarize yourself with this new syntax.We will continue supporting the old syntax in parallel with the new syntax and will provide more communication around the deprecation plan for the old syntax in the upcoming months.
- Addressed a kernel panic that occurred sometimes when accessing SMB file shares
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
101.05.16
- Improvements to quick scan logic to significantly reduce the number of scanned files
- Added autocompletion support for the command-line tool
- Bug fixes
101.03.12
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
101.01.54
- Improvements around compatibility with Time Machine
- Accessibility improvements
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
Free Operating System For Mac
101.00.31
- Improved product onboarding experience for Intune users
- Antivirus exclusions now support wildcards
- Added the ability to trigger antivirus scans from the macOS contextual menu. You can now right-click a file or a folder in Finder and select Scan with Microsoft Defender ATP
- In-place product downgrades are now explicitly disallowed by the installer. If you need to downgrade, first uninstall the existing version and reconfigure your device
- Other performance improvements & bug fixes
100.90.27
- You can now set an update channel for Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac that is different from the system-wide update channel
- New product icon
- Other user experience improvements
- Bug fixes
100.86.92
- Improvements around compatibility with Time Machine
- Addressed an issue where the product was sometimes not cleaning all files under
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Defender
during uninstallation - Reduced the CPU utilization of the product when Microsoft products are updated through Microsoft AutoUpdate
- Other performance improvements & bug fixes
100.86.91
Caution
Operating Systems For Mac Computers
To ensure the most complete protection for your macOS devices and in alignment with Apple stopping delivery of macOS native security updates to OS versions older than [current – 2], MDATP for Mac deployment and updates will no longer be supported on macOS Sierra [10.12]. MDATP for Mac updates and enhancements will be delivered to devices running versions Catalina [10.15], Mojave [10.14], and High Sierra [10.13].
If you already have MDATP for Mac deployed to your Sierra [10.12] devices, please upgrade to the latest macOS version to eliminate risks of losing protection.
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
100.83.73
- Added more controls for IT administrators around management of exclusions, management of threat type settings, and disallowed threat actions
- When Full Disk Access is not enabled on the device, a warning is now displayed in the status menu
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
100.82.60
- Addressed an issue where the product fails to start following a definition update.
100.80.42
Mac Operating System List
- Bug fixes
100.79.42
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- Fixed an issue where Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac was sometimes interfering with Time Machine
- Added a new switch to the command-line utility for testing the connectivity with the backend service
- Added ability to view the full threat history in the user interface (can be accessed from the Protection history view)
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
100.72.15
- Bug fixes
100.70.99
Whats The Newest Mac Operating System Model
- Addressed an issue that impacts the ability of some users to upgrade to macOS Catalina when real-time protection is enabled. This sporadic issue was caused by Microsoft Defender ATP locking files within Catalina upgrade package while scanning them for threats, which led to failures in the upgrade sequence.
100.68.99
- Added the ability to configure the antivirus functionality to run in passive mode
- Performance improvements & bug fixes
What Is The Newest Mac Operating System
100.65.28
- Added support for macOS CatalinaCautionmacOS 10.15 (Catalina) contains new security and privacy enhancements. Beginning with this version, by default, applications are not able to access certain locations on disk (such as Documents, Downloads, Desktop, etc.) without explicit consent. In the absence of this consent, Microsoft Defender ATP is not able to fully protect your device.The mechanism for granting this consent depends on how you deployed Microsoft Defender ATP:
- For manual deployments, see the updated instructions in the Manual deployment topic.
- For managed deployments, see the updated instructions in the JAMF-based deployment and Microsoft Intune-based deployment topics.
- Performance improvements & bug fixes