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16th major version of the macOS operating system

macOS Catalina

A version of the macOS operating system
Screenshot of the macOS Catalina desktop in night mode
Programmer	Apple Inc.
Os family	Macintosh Unix
Source model	Airtight, with open source components
General availability	October 7, 2019; ii years ago  (2019-10-07) [1]
Latest release	10.15.7 Security Update 2022-002[two] (19H1715) (February 14, 2022; 11 days agone  (2022-02-14)) [±]
Update method	Software Update
Platforms	x86-64
Kernel blazon	Hybrid (XNU)
License	APSL and Apple EULA
Preceded by	macOS Mojave
Succeeded by	macOS Big Sur
Official website	www.apple.com/macos/catalina at the Wayback Machine (archived Nov nine, 2020)
Back up status
Supported

macOS Catalina (version 10.fifteen) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'southward desktop operating organisation for Macintosh computers. It is the successor to macOS Mojave and was announced at WWDC 2019 on June 3, 2019 and released to the public on October seven, 2019. Catalina is the first version of macOS to support merely 64-bit applications and the first to include Activation Lock.^{[3] [four]} It is also the final version of macOS to have the major version number of 10; its successor, Big Sur, released on November 12, 2020, is version eleven.^{[5] [6]} In society to increase web compatibility, Safari, Chromium and Firefox accept frozen the OS in the user agent running in subsequent releases of macOS at 10.15.seven Catalina.^{[7] [viii] [nine]}

The operating organisation is named after Santa Catalina Island, which is located off the declension of southern California.

System requirements [edit]

macOS Catalina officially runs on all standard configuration Macs that supported Mojave. 2010–2012 Mac Pros, which could run Mojave merely with a GPU upgrade, are no longer supported.^[4] Catalina requires 4 GB of memory, an increase over the ii GB required past Lion through Mojave.^{[10] [11]}

• iMac: Late 2012 or newer
• iMac Pro: Tardily 2017
• Mac Pro: Late 2013 or newer
• Mac Mini: Late 2012 or newer
• MacBook: Early 2015 or newer
• MacBook Air: Mid 2012 or newer
• MacBook Pro: Mid 2012 or newer, Retina display not needed

It is possible to install Catalina on many older Macintosh computers that are not officially supported past Apple. This requires using a patch to modify the install image.^[12]

Applications [edit]

• Aerodrome Utility
• App Store
• Archive Utility
• Audio MIDI Setup
• Automator
• Bluetooth File Exchange
• Books
• Boot Campsite Assistant
• Calculator
• Agenda
• Chess
• ColorSync Utility
• Panel
• Contacts
• Dictionary
• Digital Color Meter
• Disk Utility
• DVD Thespian
• FaceTime
• Notice My
• Font Book
• GarageBand (may not be pre-installed)
• Grapher
• Home
• iMovie (may not exist pre-installed)
• Image Capture
• Keychain Access
• Keynote (may not exist pre-installed)
• Mail service
• Migration Assistant
• Music
• News (merely available for Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States)
• Notes
• Numbers (may not be pre-installed)
• Pages (may non be pre-installed)
• Photograph Booth
• Podcasts
• Preview
• QuickTime Thespian
• Reminders
• Screenshot (succeeded Grab since Mojave)
• Script Editor
• Stickies
• Stocks
• System Information
• Terminal
• TextEdit
• Fourth dimension Machine
• Telly
• Vox Memos
• VoiceOver Utility
• X11/XQuartz (may non be pre-installed)

Changes [edit]

System [edit]

Catalyst [edit]

Catalyst is a new software-evolution tool that allows developers to write apps that can run on macOS, iOS and iPadOS. Apple demonstrated several ported apps, including Jira and Twitter (after the latter discontinued its macOS app in February 2018).^{[13] [14] [15]}

System extensions [edit]

An upgrade from Kexts. Arrangement extensions avoid the bug of Kexts. At that place are three kinds of System extensions: Network Extensions, Endpoint Security Extensions, and Driver Extensions. Organisation extensions run in userspace, exterior of the kernel.^{[16] [17]} Catalina will be the last version of macOS to back up legacy system extensions.^{[18] [19]}

DriverKit [edit]

A replacement for IOKit device drivers, commuter extensions are congenital using DriverKit. DriverKit is a new SDK with all-new frameworks based on IOKit, merely updated and modernized. It is designed for building device drivers in userspace, exterior of the kernel.^{[20] [17]}

Gatekeeper [edit]

Mac apps, installer packages, and kernel extensions that are signed with a Developer ID must be notarized past Apple to run on macOS Catalina.^[21]

Activation Lock [edit]

Activation Lock helps foreclose the unauthorized apply and drive erasure of devices with an Apple T2 security scrap (2018, 2019, and 2020 MacBook Pro; 2020 5K iMac; 2018 MacBook Air, iMac Pro; 2018 Mac Mini; 2019 Mac Pro).^{[4] [22]}

Dedicated system volume [edit]

The organization runs on its own read-just book, carve up from all other data on the Mac.^[4]

Voice control [edit]

Users can give detailed voice commands to applications.^[23] On-device automobile processing is used to offer better navigation.^[4]

Sidecar [edit]

Sidecar allows a Mac to use an iPad (running iPadOS) as a wireless external brandish. With Apple Pencil, the device tin can also exist used as a graphics tablet for software running on the computer.^{[14] [24]} Sidecar requires a Mac with Intel Skylake CPUs and newer (such as the fourth-generation MacBook Pro), and an iPad that supports Apple Pencil.^{[25] [26]}

Support for wireless game controllers [edit]

The Game Controller framework adds back up for ii major console game controllers: the PlayStation iv's DualShock 4 and the Xbox One controller.^{[27] [28] [29] [xxx]}

Time Machine [edit]

A number of under-the-hood changes were made to Time Machine, the fill-in software. For case, the manner in which backup information is stored on network-attached devices was changed, and this change is not backwards-compatible with before versions of macOS.^[31] Apple tree declined to document these changes, but some of them have been noted.^[31]

Applications [edit]

iTunes [edit]

iTunes is replaced past separate Music, Podcasts, Tv set and Books apps, in line with iOS. iOS device management is now conducted via Finder.^{[32] [33]} The TV app on Mac supports Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, and HDR10 on MacBooks released in 2018 or later, while 4K HDR playback is supported on Macs released in 2018 or subsequently when connected to a compatible display.^[14]

iTunes can still be installed and will work separately from the new apps (according to back up data on Apple tree'south website).

Find My [edit]

Discover My Mac and Find My Friends are merged into an awarding chosen Notice My.

Notes [edit]

The Notes application was enhanced to permit better management of checklists and the ability to share folders with other users. The application version was incremented from 4.6 (in macOS x.14 Mojave) to 4.seven.

Reminders [edit]

Amid other visual and functional overhauls, attachments tin exist added to reminders and Siri can intelligently estimate when to remind the user about an event.^[4]

Vox Memos [edit]

The Vocalisation Memos application, first ported from iOS to the Mac in macOS 10.14 Mojave as version ii.0, was incremented to version ii.one.

Removed or changed components [edit]

macOS Catalina exclusively supports 64-bit applications. 32-bit applications no longer run (including all software that utilizes the Carbon API equally well as QuickTime 7 applications, image, audio and video codecs). Apple tree has also removed all 32-bit-simply apps from the Mac App Shop.^[34]

Zsh is the default login trounce and interactive beat out in macOS Catalina,^[35] replacing Fustigate, the default shell since Mac OS 10 Panther in 2003.^[36] Bash continues to be available in macOS Catalina, forth with other shells such equally csh/tcsh and ksh.

Dashboard has been removed in macOS Catalina.^[37]

The ability to add Backgrounds in Photo Booth was removed in macOS Catalina.

The command-line interface GNU Emacs awarding was removed in macOS Catalina.

Built-in support for Perl, Python 2.7 and Ruby are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.^[38] Future versions of macOS will not include scripting language runtimes by default, mayhap requiring users to install additional packages.^[39]

Legacy AirDrop for connecting with Macs running Mac Os 10 King of beasts, Mountain Lion and Mavericks, or 2011 and older Macs has been removed.^[40]

Reception [edit]

Catalina received favourable reviews on release for some of its features.^[41] Nonetheless, some critics found the OS version distinctly less reliable than before versions.^{[42] [43] [44] [45] [46]} The wide addition of user-facing security measures (somewhat analogous to the addition of User Account Command dialog boxes with Windows Vista a decade earlier) was criticised as intrusive and annoying.^{[44] [47]}

Release history [edit]

Previous release

Current release

Version	Build	Engagement	Darwin	Release Notes	Standalone download
ten.fifteen	19A583	October 7, 2019	nineteen.0.0	Original Software Update release Security content
	19A602	Oct xv, 2019		Supplemental update
	19A603	Oct 21, 2019		Revised Supplemental update
x.15.1	19B88	Oct 29, 2019	19.0.0 xnu-6153.41.3~29	Most the macOS Catalina 10.xv.ane Update Security content	macOS 10.15.ane Update
10.15.ii	19C57 & 19C58	Dec 10, 2019	nineteen.2.0 xnu-6153.61.ane~20	Most the macOS Catalina 10.fifteen.2 Update Security content	macOS 10.15.2 Update macOS 10.15.2 Combo Update
10.15.3	19D76	January 28, 2020	xix.3.0 xnu-6153.81.5~1	About the macOS Catalina 10.xv.iii Update Security content	macOS 10.15.3 Update macOS ten.15.three Combo Update
10.fifteen.four	19E266	March 24, 2020	19.4.0 xnu-6153.101.6~xv	About the macOS Catalina x.xv.4 Update Security content	macOS 10.fifteen.4 Update macOS 10.15.4 Combo Update
	19E287	April 8, 2020		Supplemental update	macOS 10.15.iv Supplemental Update
x.15.5	19F96	May 26, 2020	xix.5.0 xnu-6153.121.1~7	Virtually the macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Update Security content	macOS 10.15.v Update macOS ten.15.5 Combo Update
	19F101	June 1, 2020	19.5.0 xnu-6153.121.2~2	Supplemental update Security content	macOS 10.fifteen.5 Supplemental Update
10.fifteen.6	19G73	July fifteen, 2020	19.half-dozen.0 xnu-6153.141.ane~nine Jul v 00:43:ten PDT 2020	About the macOS Catalina 10.xv.6 Update Security content	macOS ten.xv.six Update macOS 10.15.6 Philharmonic Update
	19G2021	August 12, 2020	nineteen.6.0 xnu-6153.141.1~1 Jun 18 20:49:00 PDT 2020	Supplemental update	macOS 10.fifteen.half-dozen Supplemental Update
x.15.7	19H2	September 24, 2020	19.six.0 xnu-6153.141.2~1 Mon Aug 31 22:12:52 PDT 2020	Virtually the macOS Catalina 10.fifteen.7 Update Security content	macOS 10.fifteen.7 Update macOS ten.15.7 Philharmonic Update
	19H4	Oct 27, 2020
	19H15	November 5, 2020	xix.6.0 xnu-6153.141.2.2~one Thu October 29 22:56:45 PDT 2020	Supplemental update Security content	macOS x.15.vii Supplemental Update macOS 10.15.vii Supplemental Update (Combo)
	19H114	December 14, 2020	19.six.0 xnu-6153.141.x~ane Tue November 10 00:10:xxx PST 2020	About the security content of Security Update 2020-001	Security Update 2020-001 (Catalina)
	19H512	February 1, 2021	19.half dozen.0 xnu-6153.141.16~1 Tue Jan 12 22:13:05 PST 2021	Well-nigh the security content of Security Update 2021-001	Security Update 2021-001 (Catalina)
	19H524	February 9, 2021		Supplemental Update Security content	macOS Catalina 10.15.vii Supplemental Update two
	19H1030	Apr 26, 2021	19.vi.0 xnu-6153.141.28.1~ane Mon Apr 12 xx:57:45 PDT 2021	Virtually the security content of Security Update 2021-002	Security Update 2021-002 (Catalina)
	19H1217	May 24, 2021	nineteen.vi.0 xnu-6153.141.33~1 Thu May 6 00:48:39 PDT 2021	Nearly the security content of Security Update 2021-003	Security Update 2021-003 (Catalina)
	19H1323	July 21, 2021	19.6.0 xnu-6153.141.35~ane Thu Jun 22 19:49:55 PDT 2021	Near the security content of Security Update 2021-004	Security Update 2021-004 (Catalina)
	19H1417	September 13, 2021	19.6.0 xnu-6153.141.40~1 Tue Aug 24 20:28:00 PDT 2021	About the security content of Security Update 2021-005	Security Update 2021-005 (Catalina)
	19H1419	September 23, 2021	nineteen.half dozen.0 xnu-6153.141.40.1~1 Thu Sep xvi xx:58:47 PDT 2021	About the security content of Security Update 2021-006	Security Update 2021-006 (Catalina)
	19H1519	October 25, 2021	19.6.0 xnu-6153.141.43~1 Tue October 12 xviii:34:05 PDT 2021	About the security content of Security Update 2021-007	Security Update 2021-007 (Catalina)
	19H1615	December 13, 2021	xix.6.0 xnu-6153.141.50~1 Dominicus Nov 14 nineteen:58:51 PST 2021	About the security content of Security Update 2021-008	Security Update 2021-008 (Catalina)
	19H1713	January 26, 2022	nineteen.6.0 xnu-6153.141.51~3 Thu Jan 13 01:26:33 PST 2022	Virtually the security content of Security Update 2022-001	Security Update 2022-001 (Catalina)
	19H1715	February 14, 2022	19.six.0 xnu-6153.141.51~three Thu Jan 13 01:26:33 PST 2022	Security Update 2022-002	Security Update 2022-002 (Catalina)

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External links [edit]

• macOS Catalina at the Wayback Auto (archived 2020-11-09) – official site
• macOS Catalina download folio at Apple tree

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Catalina

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