Traditionally, Apple executives have launched the year's macOS upgrade at WWDC, given it a name - another California location is a good bet - touted a handful of its new features or improvements, and parceled out preview copies to developers. This week, Apple will unveil High Sierra's follow-up, almost certainly identified as 10.14, at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose, Calif. If "N" represented the current edition, High Sierra, then Apple was also obliged to offer security updates to "N-1" and "N-2," 2016's Sierra and 2015's El Capitan, respectively.īut a new macOS edition is imminent, which will bump El Capitan off the support list, probably after one more set of security patches. Traditionally, Apple supports three consecutive editions of the Mac's operating system: the current and the two previous. Separate security updates, minus the Messages in iCloud feature, were released for High Sierra's two predecessors. The High Sierra update also added support for storing Messages' texts and attachments, such as photographs and videos, in iCloud, freeing up storage space on the Mac's own drive. Īpple's update for 2017's High Sierra - the already-mentioned 10.13.5 - patched 32 security vulnerabilities, including critical bugs in the operating system's kernel that were reported by researchers working for Google. Data published June 1 by the metrics firm said that during May El Capitan powered 12.9% of all Macs.
Apple last week released an update for macOS High Sierra, boosting the numeric label to 10.13.5 and simultaneously starting the clock on ending support for 2015's El Capitan.Īpproximately one in eight Mac owners currently runs OS X 10.11, otherwise known by the Yosemite landmark of "El Capitan," according to analytics vendor Net Applications.
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