Just over half way through the progress bar, changed to a black screen, then a normal restart with a chime.Initial highly non-linear progress bar, white on black, starting at 16 minutes, rising to 29, then shooting forward rapidly.The sequence on this iMac17,1 running 10.12.5 ran:
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Safari 10.1.2 really slow update#
That seems to have knocked some sense into the App Store and its updater, and my iMac then entered a normal system update process (I hope).
Safari 10.1.2 really slow install#
I was then informed that there was an update waiting to be installed I opted to install it and then restart.
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In the end, I quit all apps and tried a manual restart. But clicking to update to them did nothing either. The update (and iTunes update) were still offered in the App Store updates, as if nothing had been downloaded. Once downloaded, I clicked on the notification to restart, and nothing happened. The standalone Combo updater is available from here and the smaller ‘delta’ update is available from here.Īlso available now are iOS 10.3.3 (which also addresses file and folder name issues with normalisation), watchOS 3.2.3, tvOS 10.2.2, and iCloud for Windows 6.2.2.įor the first time in a long period, this update did not work as advertised. Sierra 10.12.6 includes Safari 10.1.2, which fixes a long list of vulnerabilities in WebKit.Ĭorresponding security updates (2017-003) are available for El Capitan and Yosemite.Īs the update is just over 1 GB in size, and changes more than 2 GB of files on your Mac, there is clearly a lot more that is fixed which Apple is, once again, not prepared to tell us about.
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They include two memory corruption bugs in Bluetooth, curl 7.54.0, Intel graphics driver bugs, and six bugs in the kernel. It is also believed to contain a new version of the ‘pre-release’ APFS file system, which performs normalisation to address file and folder name issues.Īpple provides a detailed list of security fixes here. Its brief release notes claim that it resolves an issue making some SMB connections from the Finder, and improves the stability of Terminal. Apple has just released the update to macOS Sierra 10.12.6, which is available from the App Store as usual.