macOS Catalina 10.15 Update

Go to Settings > software update and you will get this:


macOS 10.15 Update –– Restart Required

macOS Catalina Supplemental Update


The macOS Catalina Supplemental Update includes installation and reliability improvements, and is recommended for all users.


This update:


• Improves installation reliability of macOS Catalina on Macs with low disk space

• Fixes an issue that prevented Setup Assistant from completing during some installations

• Resolves an issue that prevents accepting iCloud Terms and Conditions when multiple iCloud accounts are logged in

• Improves the reliability of saving Game Center data when playing Apple Arcade games offline


For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

 

Avoid This macOS Catalina Update At All Costs Because It's Bricking Some MacBooks hothardware.com | April 12, 2020
Multiple users are reporting serious issues after trying to install the macOS Catalina 10.15.4 supplemental update. One Apple user reports that when attempting to install the update, about halfway through the computer shuts down. The user says that they were left with a bricked 2018 13-inch MacBook. The MacBook owner...

There is no indication currently of what has caused these complete failures some users are seeing. Apple has made no official comment on this situation yet either, unfortunately.

 

Failed firmware updates?

Given that it sometimes fails the firmware updates and doesn't even tell the user, and wont fail firmware updates on Macs with swaped SSD's..
And you end up needing to check a random list in a blog post to know if you are up to date..

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/10/08/which-efi-firmware-should-your-mac-be-using-version-4/

 

Works fine for me on my 2016 13" Macbook Pro.

 

macOS Image Capture Bug Fills Your Drive With Empty Data

A bug has been discovered in Impact Capture in macOS, which fills up a Mac's drive with empty files. This bug has been present since macOS 10.14.6, and also exists in macOS Catalina 10.15.4, and has been reported by the developers behind Neofinder.

The blog post also goes on to say that this is not the only bug and that they have to deal with new bugs with every major macOS update. Their suggestion is for Apple to stop releasing major updates on a yearly basis to ensure that bugs are fixed and software quality is improved. macOS is not the only operating system suffering from such a schedule and quality issues, Windows 10 also has similar problems, primarily attributed to major releases, instead of minor quality fix updates.

Yeah, the grass ain't greener on the other side of the fence.

 

I think its same bug as v1809 that deleted user files! Haha... I think OS X is now outsourced to MSFT.

 

It's widespread
Windows 10's New Update Is Deleting People's Files Again howtogeek.com

 

I'm on 1809.1192 build since I don't have time to Clean install 1909, but I clean installed Ubuntu Budgie 20.04. Haha...

 

I'm on 1909 on all my computers and it's great.

 

Stay on 1809 as long you can. I have now tested all versions all over again for benching on my old. Latest and greatest from Redmond retards sucks!

 

1909 worked on in-place upgrade while Clean installing it installed bootloaders on multiple drives and wrecked my Linux SSD and MR restored it in 5 mins.
Unlike olden days pre-W8, newer always meant better than previous iterations. Now, newer means new icons with same old boring OS with newer version for consumers. Developers might need newer OS to leverage Dx12 and other things.