If Sierra follows the pattern of El Capitan, 10.12.3 should be expected in late January, 10.12.4 at the end of March, and 10.12.5 in May. So far with Sierra, its updates have occurred just a few days later than the equivalent for El Capitan, and significantly earlier than in Mavericks or Yosemite. I don’t think that it is any longer correct to refer to those interim updates as being ‘minor’: many replace more than half the components in macOS, and change most of the apps and tools included.Įl Capitan was an exception to this cycle because of its evident kernel and driver instability, forcing Apple to squeeze in six updates rather than five, although many users still did not attain stability even then. Major upgrades have been released in September-October, with a further five or six substantial updates before the next major release the following autumn. Since OS X 10.9, Apple has settled into a fairly consistent update schedule. Each of these should be accompanied by an update to iOS, bringing it to 10.5 by the end of the summer. MacOS Sierra is likely to be updated three more times, to version 10.12.3 in February or March, to 10.12.4 in May, and to 10.12.5 later in the summer. Next year’s calendar looks full of promise for Macs and their users.
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