October 2019 - Mr. Macintosh

Security Updates Mojave 2019-001 (18G1012) & HS 2019-006 (17G9016)

On October 29th Apple released macOS Mojave Security Update 2019-001 and High Sierra Security Update 019-006. MacOS Sierra is no longer supported.

How do I keep track of all the macOS Build Versions?

I document all of all macOS versions along with most Apple Applications, XProtect, Gatekeeper and MRT updates in one database. You can check out the link below.

mrmacintosh.com/macos-system-status-version-info-for-macadmins/

MacOS Mojave 2019-001 Security Update (18G1012)

macOS Mojave Security Update 2019-001 – 1.56gb
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2024

Information on the Security fixes included in the 2019-001 Security Update

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210722

MacOS High Sierra 2019-006 Security Update (17G9016)

10.13.6 High Sierra Security Update 2019-006 (17G8037) Size 1.92gb
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2023

Information on the Security fixes included in the 2019-006 Security Update

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210722

T2 BridgeOS Update

Both the 2019-001 and 2019-006 Security Updates upgrade BridgeOS to version – 17.16.11081.0.0

Previous Releases

Mojave 2019-005 High Sierra 2019-006

What’s New in the macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88)?

MrMacintosh.com - What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88)? 7 New Features, 8 Resolved Issues, 29 Security Fixes & the size.. oh the size. — What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88)?

macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88) is now Available.

10.15.1 is Catalina’s first Update was just released and it’s now available for download. Let’s take a quick look at the Catalina 10.15.1 Update (19B88) and see what’s new.

First thing to note is the SIZE of the update! The Point Update clocks in at 4.49gb!!! That’s over 50% the size of the main installer app! (The full installer is 8.63gb).

MrMacintosh.com - macOS Catalina 10.15.1 is the largest update ever? — macOS Catalina 10.15.1 is the largest update ever?

This update may be the largest OS point release ever released by Apple.

Speaking of size, hopefully your Mac has enough space!

When you have an update that is almost 5gb in size, you also have to take in to account how much extra free space you will need. For this update you may need up to 20gb of free space to even install the update.

MrMacintosh.com - For the 10.15.1 Update, you may need up to 20Gb of free space to even start the installer. — For the 10.15.1 Update, you may need up to 20Gb of free space to even start the installer. HT goes to @nstrauss for the screenshot.

If you have the update set in a Jamf Pro Policy you may get en error in the policy log like this.

MrMacintosh.com - 10.15.1 Update Failed due to not enough free space. — Update Failed due to not enough free space. HT to @funkaround for the screenshot.

The full installer app was also updated and is 8.6GB in size.

10.15.1 Patch Notes Summary

7 New Features
8 Resolved Issues
29 Security Fixes

Apple’s Public Patch Notes / Release Notes Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_1_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Releases + Previous Patch Notes

10.15.1 = (19B88) October 29th 2019 = Current Release
10.15.0 = (19A603) October 21st 2019
10.15.0 = (19A602) October 15th 2019
10.15.0 = (19A583) October 7th 2019

Download Links

10.15.1 Delta Update – https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2022

1. 10.15.1 T2 BridgeOS Update

T2 BridgeOS was updated in 10.15.1.

BridgeOS 10.15.1 Update = 17.16.11081.0.0

2. 10.15.1 Update Security Content

support.apple.com/en-us/HT210722

29 Security Content Related Fixes

3. 10.15.1 Update Overview

The macOS Catalina 10.15.1 update includes updated and additional emoji, support for AirPods Pro, HomeKit Secure Video, HomeKit enabled routers, and new Siri privacy settings, as well as bug fixes and improvements.

New Features

Emoji

Over 70 new or updated emoji, including animals, food, activities, new accessibility emoji, gender neutral emoji, and skin tones selection for couple emoji

AirPods

Introduces support for AirPods Pro

Home app

HomeKit Secure Video enables you to privately capture, store, and view encrypted video from your security cameras and features people, animal, and vehicle detection
HomeKit enabled routers let you control how your HomeKit accessories communicate over the internet or in your home
Adds support for AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in scenes and automations

Siri

Privacy settings to control whether or not to help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions
Option to delete your Siri and Dictation history from Siri Settings

New Resolved Issues

This update also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

Restores the ability to view file names in the All Photos view in Photos
Restores the ability to filter by favorites, photos, videos, edited, and keywords in Days view in Photos
Fixes an issue where Messages would only send a single notification when the option to repeat alerts was enabled
Resolves an issue that caused Contacts to launch to the previously opened contact instead of the contact list
Adds a two-finger swipe gesture for back navigation in Apple News
Resolves issues that may occur in the Music app when displaying playlists inside folders and newly added songs in the Songs list
Improves reliability of migrating iTunes library databases into the Music, Podcasts, and TV apps
Fixes an issue where downloaded titles were not visible in the Downloads folder in the TV app

macOS Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88)

What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 3 (19B86a)

Today Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 3 (19B86a) to Developers.

10.15.1 Beta 3 is now live, so let’s dig in and see what changes Apple added to this new build version.

This article is meant to save you time going through the notes to find what is new and what is still leftover from the last beta. When Apple releases the next Beta patch notes, the previous patch notes are overwritten and taken down.

Summary of 10.15.1 Beta 3 Patch Notes

1 New Resolved Issue

Report your bugs NOW!

Now that macOS Catalina 10.15 is live you still will want to get any bugs that you find into Apple now. After the production release of the OS bugs can take longer to fix. The 10.14.4 “Update Keychain” bug is a perfect example.

Apple’s Public Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

3rd Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 3 (19B86a) 10/24/19 – Current Release
2nd Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 (19B77a) 10/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f) – 10/11/19 – Release Notes
11th Catalina 10.15 GM Seed (19A582a) – 10/03/19 – Release Notes
10th Catalina 10.15 Beta 10 (19A578c) – 09/30/19 – Release Notes
9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Release Notes
8th Catalina 10.15 Beta 8 (19A558d) – 09/10/19 – Release Notes
7th Catalina 10.15 Beta 7 (19A546d) – 08/28/19 – Release Notes
6th Catalina 10.15 Beta 6 (19A536g) – 08/19/19 – Release Notes
5th Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h) – 07/31/19 – Release Notes
4th Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 (19A512f) – 07/17/19 – Release Notes
3rd Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 (19A501i) – 07/02/19 – Release Notes
2nd Catalina 10.15 Beta 2 (19A487l) – 06/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t) – 06/03/19 – Release Notes

How to Download macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta

Public Beta – Apple Beta Software Program
Sign up as an Apple Developer (Yearly $100)
Contact your Apple SE to join AppleSeed for IT

AppleSeed Patch Notes & Some Fixes not listed?

Keep in mind, I can only publish public data. If you are an AppleSeed for IT member you can access additional 10.15 Catalina Beta Patch Notes in the AppleSeed Portal. AppleSeed information is protected by Apple’s NDA.

Some fixes are not going to be listed. Many issues are from #MacAdmins who have filed FeedBack Requests and Enterprise Support tickets. Most of these issues are resolved but are never publicly noted.

Overview

The macOS 10.15.1 SDK provides support for developing apps for Macs running macOS Catalina 10.15.1. The SDK comes bundled with Xcode 11.2 available from Beta Software Downloads. For information on the compatibility requirements for Xcode 11.2, see Xcode 11.2 Beta 2 Release Notes.

New Features in 10.15.1 Beta #3

eGPU ROUND #2 – Support has been added for the AMD Navi RDNA architecture. For more information see Use an external graphics processor with your Mac.

NOTE: This feature was listed last time but eagle eye twitter user @theitsage checked and did NOT find the new AMD Navi RDNA Drivers in Beta #1

New Resolved Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #3

Safari – Fixed an issue where Safari might stop responding when attempting to use Apple Pay on the Web. (56261377)

New Features In 10.15.1 Beta #3

None

New Known Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #3

None

New Deprecations in 10.15.1 Beta #3

None

macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 3

macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update Re-Released as (19A603)

Apple Re-Released macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update (19A603)

In another surprise today Apple re-released the Supplemental update for macOS Catalina 10.15. Many MacAdmins are scratching their heads wondering what this update is. Let’s get right into it.

10.15.0 (19A602)

Update Size 984.4mb
BridgeOS Version 17.16.10572
Original Patch Notes
Product ID = 061-18879

10.15.0 (19A603)

Update Size 985.4mb = 1mb Larger
BridgeOS Version 17.16.10572 = Same
Patch Notes = Same
Product ID = 061-18879 = Same

Will the Re-Released Update (19A603) show up in Software Update for (19A583) Users?

Yes

Will the Re-Released Update (19A603) show up in Software Update for (19A602) Users?

BridgeOS update

BridgeOS was NOT updated in the Re-Released Catalina Supplemental Update (19A603). It shows as Build Version 6.

New and Previous Build Versions of 10.15

10.15.0 = (19A603) October 21st 2019
10.15.0 = (19A602) October 15th 2019
10.15.0 = (19A583) October 7th 2019

If I deployed/cached the old 10.15 (19A602) Installer.app for OS Upgrades, do I need to redeploy?

Do I have to replace my deployable 10.15 Installer.app? – Probably Not

If you deployed the old version of the 10.15 (19A602) Installer, you most likely do not need the new (19A603) Version. As noted above, Apple did not change the patch notes and did not mention any changes to this Build Version. The Update most likely has only very minor changes.

If I deployed/cached the old 10.15 (19A583) Installer.app for OS Upgrades, do I need to redeploy?

Do I have to replace my deployable 10.15 Installer.app?– Yes

If you deployed the old version of the 10.15 (19A583) Installer, you should update it to the new (19A603). If you don’t your users will have to install the New Catalina Supplemental Update after installing or upgrading.

What’s included in the Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update?

NOTE: The patch notes for (19A602) are exactly the same as (19A603)

The macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental update includes installation and reliability improvements, and is recommended for all users.
This update:

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

10.15 Supplemental Update Links

Catalina Supplemental Update = Will update when download link becomes available.

Security Content

This Update has no Published CVE entries.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222

Catalina Supplemental Update (19A603)

If you noticed any changes in this update please Contact Me

What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 (19B77a)

Today Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 (19B77a) to Developers.

Two days have passed since Apple released the 10.15 Supplemental Update. Some of the fixes included in that update were pretty important so it was released before 10.15.1. Beta 2 is now live, so let’s dig in and see what changes Apple put into this new build version.

Summary of 10.15.1 Beta 2 Patch Notes

1 New Feature
1 New Known Issue

Report your bugs NOW!

Apple’s Public Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

2nd Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2 (19B77a) 10/17/19 – Current Release
1st Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f) – 10/11/19 – Release Notes
11th Catalina 10.15 GM Seed (19A582a) – 10/03/19 – Release Notes
10th Catalina 10.15 Beta 10 (19A578c) – 09/30/19 – Release Notes
9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Release Notes
8th Catalina 10.15 Beta 8 (19A558d) – 09/10/19 – Release Notes
7th Catalina 10.15 Beta 7 (19A546d) – 08/28/19 – Release Notes
6th Catalina 10.15 Beta 6 (19A536g) – 08/19/19 – Release Notes
5th Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h) – 07/31/19 – Release Notes
4th Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 (19A512f) – 07/17/19 – Release Notes
3rd Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 (19A501i) – 07/02/19 – Release Notes
2nd Catalina 10.15 Beta 2 (19A487l) – 06/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t) – 06/03/19 – Release Notes

How to Download macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta

Public Beta – Apple Beta Software Program
Sign up as an Apple Developer (Yearly $100)
Contact your Apple SE to join AppleSeed for IT

AppleSeed Patch Notes & Some Fixes not listed?

Some fixes are not going to be listed. Many issues are from #MacAdmins who have filed FeedBack Requests and Enterprise Support tickets. Most of these issues are resolved but are never publicly noted.

Overview

New Features in 10.15.1 Beta #2

eGPU ROUND #2 – Support has been added for the AMD Navi RDNA architecture. For more information see Use an external graphics processor with your Mac.

NOTE: This feature was listed last time but eagle eye twitter user @theitsage checked and did NOT find the new AMD Navi RDNA Drivers in Beta #1

New Resolved Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #2

None

New Known Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #2

Apple Pay – Safari might stop responding when attempting to use Apple Pay on the Web. You can work around this by installing Safari Technology Preview. (56261377)

New Deprecations in 10.15.1 Beta #2

None

macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 2

macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update (19A602) Released

MrMacintosh.com - macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update Released. — macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update Released.

Apple Today Released macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update (19A602)

In a surprise today Apple released a new Supplemental updates for macOS Catalina 10.15. It’s a little strange that we are getting a Supplemental Update instead of 10.15.1. This update was most likely released due to the Setup Assistant Bug that plagued users. This update weighs in at 984.4mb and is available now for all Catalina users.

What’s included in the Catalina 10.15 Supplemental Update?

The macOS Catalina 10.15 Supplemental update includes installation and reliability improvements, and is recommended for all users.
This update:

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

BridgeOS update

BridgeOS was NOT updated in the Catalina Supplemental Update.

New and Previous Build Versions of 10.15

10.15.0 = (19A602) Today October 15th 2019
10.15.0 = (19A583) October 7th 2019

If I deployed/cached the old 10.15 Installer.app for OS Upgrades, do I need to redeploy?

Do I have to replace my deployable 10.15 Installer.app? – Yes

If you deployed the old version of the 10.15 (19A583) Installer, you should update it to the new (19A602). If you don’t your users will have to install the New Catalina Supplemental Update after installing or upgrading.

10.15 Supplemental Update Links

Catalina Supplemental Update = Will update when download link becomes available.

Security Content

This Update has no Published CVE entries.

What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f)

Today Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f) to Developers.

Four days have passed since macOS Catalina 10.15 was released to the public. 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f) is now available, so let’s dig in and see what changes Apple put into this new build version.

Summary of 10.15.1 Beta 1 Patch Notes

3 New Features

Report your bugs NOW!

Apple’s Public Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

1st Catalina 10.15.1 Beta 1 (19B68f) – 10/11/19 – Current Release
11th Catalina 10.15 GM Seed (19A582a) – 10/03/19 – Release Notes
10th Catalina 10.15 Beta 10 (19A578c) – 09/30/19 – Release Notes
9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Release Notes
8th Catalina 10.15 Beta 8 (19A558d) – 09/10/19 – Release Notes
7th Catalina 10.15 Beta 7 (19A546d) – 08/28/19 – Release Notes
6th Catalina 10.15 Beta 6 (19A536g) – 08/19/19 – Release Notes
5th Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h) – 07/31/19 – Release Notes
4th Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 (19A512f) – 07/17/19 – Release Notes
3rd Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 (19A501i) – 07/02/19 – Release Notes
2nd Catalina 10.15 Beta 2 (19A487l) – 06/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t) – 06/03/19 – Release Notes

How to Download macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta

Public Beta – Apple Beta Software Program
Sign up as an Apple Developer (Yearly $100)
Contact your Apple SE to join AppleSeed for IT

AppleSeed Patch Notes & Some Fixes not listed?

Some fixes are not going to be listed. Many issues are from #MacAdmins who have filed FeedBack Requests and Enterprise Support tickets. Most of these issues are resolved but are never publicly noted.

Overview

1. New Features in 10.15.1 Beta #1

eGPU – Support has been added for the AMD Navi RDNA architecture. For more information see Use an external graphics processor with your Mac.

Photos – You can now filter by Favorites, Edited, Photos, Videos or Keywords in the new All Photos view. (45589765)

Photos – You can now choose View > Metadata > Titles to enable titles and filenames in the new All Photos view. (48363059)

New Resolved Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #1

None

New Known Issues in 10.15.1 Beta #1

None

New Deprecations in 10.15.1 Beta #1

None

macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Beta

How to Manage Catalina’s New Application Notifications with a Profile

This article will show you how to Manage Catalina’s New Application Notification Preferences with a Config Profile.

Now that Catalina is live, MacAdmins have many questions. The top 3 questions I have seen so far are;

1. How do I block macOS Catalina from my users?
2. How do I Manage macOS Catalina Application Notifications?
3. What are the new Screen Recording and Input Monitoring or Keystroke Receiving TCC Settings? (more on that in a new article.)

Catalina Application Notifications Index

1. Should I manage Application Notifications?
2. How do I reset or clear out previous Notification Settings?
3. How can I test the Notifications Profile?
4. Find Previous Bundle ID or App Domains from past Prompts
5. Manage Notifications with a Profile.
6. Notifications Profile with Profile Creator.
7. Notifications Profile with Manage App Notifications.bash
8. Credits

1. Should I manage Application Notifications?

This is a question you should ask yourself. Keep in mind, once you mange a profile setting it can not be changed by the user. Managing certain application notifications from Jamf Self Service is one example. You WANT the user to be able to see the notifications that it sends out. The user may miss something important, if they previously clicked DENY. For other applications, you might want to leave Notification decisions to the user.

2. How do I reset or clear out previous Notification Settings?

How do you reset Catalina’s Application Notifications if you clicked Allow or Deny already?

The settings are stored in a plist in the users /Library/Preferences folder.

com.apple.ncprefs.plist

To reset all Notification Alerts, you can delete the plist and then restart. Once you get back to the desktop all your notifications will start popping up again.

3. How can I test the Notifications Profile?

After you create the profile and install it, any open notifications will immediately disappear! The best way to test your new profile is to delete ncprefs.plist, then restart. Then you can leave any open notifications up on your desktop. Install the profile , then all the notifications that you manage should disappear.

4. Find Previous Bundle ID or Application Domains from past Prompts

If you want to see previous prompts that you have already answered try this command.

sqlite3 "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR)/com.apple.notificationcenter/db2/db" "select * from app;"

4. Manage Notifications with a Profile.

The easiest way to manage Notification is with a Configuration Profile.

NOTE: If you use Jamf Pro, Notifications is not an option yet in 10.15.1.

I will show you two ways to create a Notifications Profile.

1. Erik Berglund’s – Profile Creator Application.
2. William Smith’s (talkingmoose) –Manage App Notifications.bash

5. Notifications Profile with Profile Creator.

Erik Berglund‘s Profile Creator Application.

Creating Profiles is easy with Profile Creator! The version that we will be using is v0.3.2 which has Catalina Options built right in. After installing you will see the welcome screen.

Profile Creator’s Welcome Screen.

You can start by filling out the General Settings. Set the Name of the profile, Description, Company Name and Payload Scope. For the Payload Scope select System if you want the settings to be for all users. You can add Prevent users from removing this profile (Supervised)

Profile Creator’s General Settings.

Once you have the General Settings set you can add a new profile payload. Scroll down on the left hand side until you see macOS. You will then see Notifications.

Profile Creator Notifications Payload.

To start you will need to add the Notifications Payload Key. Click the + button on the left hand side of Notification Settings.

Profile Creator’s Notifications Payload Settings.

Now that Notifications Settings is active you can add new keys. Click the + button to add a new Key.

Profile Creator’s Notifications Key

Now you can view the different settings you can set.

1. Enable Notifications
2. Bundle Identifier for the target app
3. Show app in Notifications Center
4. Show Notifications at the Lock Screen
5. Notification Sounds Allowed
6. Allow Badges
7. Alert Type – None, Banners, Alerts
8. Enable Critical – If the banner can pass through DND

The option that you will need to find is the Application Bundle Identifier. An example would be Microsoft Outlook. The Bundle ID for Outlook is com.microsoft.outlook. How do you find the Bundle ID ?

You can find many ways to find the Application Bundle ID. I will show you 3 different ways to do this. One of the best ways is to look directly at the application info.plist. Run the following all on one line. Let’s check to see what Safari’s Bundle ID is.

1. PlistBuddy

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print CFBundleIdentifier' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist

com.apple.Safari

2. lsappinfo

lsappinfo info -only bundleid Google\ Chrome

"CFBundleIdentifier"="com.google.Chrome"

3. mdls

mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier -r /Applications/Remote\ Desktop.app

com.apple.RemoteDesktop

Now that you have the Bundle ID, plug it into the 2nd box in the key options.

Profile Creator’s Notifications Key Application Bundle ID

You can now add as many keys as you want!

Profile Creator’s Notifications 2nd Key Application Bundle ID

Once you have finished adding all the Bundle ID’s you are ready to Add this payload to the main Profile and save it. Click the Add Button in the upper right hand corner.

Profile Creator’s Notifications Add NotificationsSettings to the main Profile.

You should now see this in the upper left hand corner.

Profile ready to save!

Now click on the upload button on the right hand side of the + button to save your new profile.

Profile Creator’s Save Menu

This is the save menu. Check over the settings to verify everything is correct.

NOTE: Just as the note says at the bottom. If you use Jamf Pro you need to Sign the profile with your Apple Developer ID. If you use any other MDM you do not have to do this.

You will now have a file called 10.15 Notifications.mobileconfig

You can now upload it to your MDM Server.

After installing the profile you can go into system preferences > Profiles and view the new profile. It will look something like this.

Notifications Profile Settings.

You can then scroll down to verify all the macOS Catalina Application Notifications settings.

6. Notifications Profile with Manage App Notifications.bash

William Smith aka (talkingmoose) just wrote an amazing bash script that will generate a Notifications.mobileconfig

You can find the script on William’s Github

All you have to do is run the script. You will be prompted at each step.

Drag and drop the app into Terminal (will auto fill the bundle ID info!)
Allow Notifications
Show Notifications on the Lock Screen
Show In Notification Center
Badge App Icon
Play Sound
Critical Alerts (Past DND)
Upload to Jamf Pro or Save to Desktop
Would you like to View the Profile.

MrMacintosh.com - Manage App Notifications.bash — How easy is this??? Picture via > https://gist.github.com/talkingmoose/9faf50deaaefafa9a147e48ba39bb4b0

The only limiting part of this script is that you can only set one application per profile. William has mentioned that he might look into adding the ability to add multiple application notification settings into one profile. If you would like this, please send him this feedback!

7. Credits

A big Thank You goes out to the following MacAdmins.

@stevemasser – For finding the Notifications Preference plist Location.
@roberthammen & @emily for Confirming that current notifications will disappear immediately when the profile is installed.
@eholtam for finding the neat sqlite3 trick for showing previously answered notifications.

If you have any questions or comments on macOS Catalina Application Notifications, please don’t hesitate to Contact Me!

macOS Catalina 10.15.0 (19A583) Released! What’s New?

macOS Catalina 10.15.0 (19A583) is LIVE!

The release of macOS Catalina came today and was unexpected for sure. Most MacAdmins felt that we would at least get a 2nd GM Seed to work with.

apple.com/macos/catalina

Whether we like or not, Catalina is here!!!

GM Seed (19A582a) and the 10.15.0 (19A583) Release Notes are the same.

I double checked the release notes for 10.15.0 and compared them against Beta 11 GM Seed and did not find any differences.

How to Block macOS Catalina 10.15.0

Block Catalina with Jamf Pro – (Ben Toms) macmule.com/2019/10/07/blocking-macos-catalina-with-jamf-pro/
Block Catalina Upgrade Notification Advertisement – Rich Trouton – derflounder.wordpress.com/2019/10/07/preventing-the-macos-catalina-upgrade-advertisement-from-appearing-in-the-software-update-preference-pane-on-macos-mojave/
Block Catalina with SoftwareUpdate –ignore via wegotoeleven & (Robert Hammen) https://twitter.com/hammen/status/1181295216600338432?s=20
Block Catalina with Jamf Pro – (Robert Hammen) https://twitter.com/hammen/status/1181303814726410240?s=20

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

macOS Catalina 10.15.0 (19A583) – 10/07/19 – Prod Release
11th Catalina 10.15 GM Seed (19A582a) – 10/03/19 – Release Notes
10th Catalina 10.15 Beta 10 (19A578c) – 09/30/19 – Release Notes
9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Release Notes
8th Catalina 10.15 Beta 8 (19A558d) – 09/10/19 – Release Notes
7th Catalina 10.15 Beta 7 (19A546d) – 08/28/19 – Release Notes
6th Catalina 10.15 Beta 6 (19A536g) – 08/19/19 – Release Notes
5th Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h) – 07/31/19 – Release Notes
4th Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 (19A512f) – 07/17/19 – Release Notes
3rd Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 (19A501i) – 07/02/19 – Release Notes
2nd Catalina 10.15 Beta 2 (19A487l) – 06/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t) – 06/03/19 – Release Notes

How to Download macOS 10.15 Catalina

Direct from Apple

Mac App Store – apps.apple.com/us/app/macos-catalina/id1466841314
New softwareupdate option!!! softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer

From Apple via open source tools.

installinstallmacos.py – github.com/munki/macadmin-scripts/blob/master/installinstallmacos.py
MDS macOS Download – GUI installinstallmacos.py fork – https://bitbucket.org/twocanoes/macdeploystick/downloads/PreBeta-MDS_Build-20041_Version-2.0.dmg

New features available with macOS Catalina. – 119 New Changes & Updates.

Music

Designed for Apple Music¹

Stream and download more than 50 million songs ad-free. Every time you open the app, you’ll get the best of Apple Music personalized to your tastes with For You.

Music Store

For users who still like to own their music, the iTunes Store is just a click away.

Now Playing

The new Music app includes an updated player. Easily see lyrics while you’re listening and control the music that will play next with just a click. Or switch to MiniPlayer to listen while multitasking.

Library

All your music organized in one place. See artists, albums, songs, playlists, and recent additions with a familiar menu in the new sidebar. And now, type what you’re looking for in the updated library pages to quickly find the exact song in your music collection.

TV

Library

Easily find all your purchased movies and shows in the updated Library tab. Browse by recently added, downloaded, genres, and more.

Movies and TV

Buy or rent new-release movies or explore the catalog of more than 100,000 movies and shows — including the largest catalog of 4K HDR titles.²

Apple TV channels³

Try new Apple TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, Starz, and more. Subscribe and share with up to six family members. Channels play in the Apple TV app ad-free, online or off — no additional apps, accounts, or passwords needed. Try them free and cancel anytime.

Home for Apple TV+

Apple’s new premium streaming service brings you a wide range of exclusive original shows and films from the world’s greatest talent. Apple TV+ will be available in the Apple TV app this fall.

Watch Now

Watch Now is your home in the Apple TV app. Find expertly curated collections and personalized recommendations picked just for you.

Up Next

Watch Now includes Up Next, which helps you quickly find and watch your favorites. It also lets you resume what you’re watching from the moment you left off, across all your devices.

Kids

A new dedicated Kids section helps you discover great, editorially handpicked shows and movies for kids of all ages.

Apple TV app everywhere

You can pick up where you left off on Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, select smart TVs, and now Mac.

Dolby Atmos

Enjoy a thrilling surround sound experience with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, or Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks in the Apple TV app using the built-in speakers on certain Mac models.⁴

Podcasts

Listen Now

Continue listening to your favorite podcast episodes or see when a new one is available. Or find other shows you might like based on the ones you’re already listening to.

Library

The Apple Podcasts library is the one place for all the shows you’ve subscribed to or added — organized by show title or episode title. Download your favorite episodes to listen offline.

Browse

With over 700,000 shows in the catalog, our editors pick the best shows for you to browse each week. Try a show from New & Noteworthy or check out which shows are trending in Top Charts.

Search

Search provides better results when you’re searching for a topic or people — even find episodes featuring a specific guest or host.

Syncing

Media syncing

All three services — Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts — sync your content through the cloud across your devices. Or sync it from each of the apps if you prefer using a cable.

Back up, update, and restore through the Finder

Each time you connect a device, you can find it in the Finder sidebar. From there you can back up, update, and restore your device.

Photos

All-new Photos tab

A beautiful new browsing experience showcases your photos and memories.

Day, month, and year organization

Photos is organized by day, month, and year views so it’s easy to find photos or relive your memories. Animations and transitions keep your spot in the timeline so you can switch between views without losing your place.

Large photo previews

Photo previews are larger to help you distinguish between shots. Photos uses intelligence to find the best part of your photo in previews, so you see the full, unedited version when you open the photo.

Auto-playing Live Photos and videos

Live Photos and videos begin playing as you scroll, bringing your library to life.

Personalization

Using machine learning on your Mac, Photos can understand who’s in your photos and what’s happening to highlight important moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.

Your best shots

Photos intelligently showcases the best shots in your library, removing duplicates and clutter.

All Photos

The All Photos view displays all your photos and videos in a grid. Choose to zoom in for large previews, or zoom out to get an overview of your entire collection. You can also choose to view your photos and videos in square or original format.

Memory movies

Now you can view Memory movies on your Mac and edit the duration, mood, and title. Edits sync to your other devices when you use iCloud Photos.

Notes

Gallery view

The all-new gallery view displays your notes as visual thumbnails, making it easier than ever to quickly find the note you’re looking for.

Shared folders

Collaborate on entire folders, including all the notes and subfolders inside. Invite others to a folder, and everyone can add notes, attachments, or subfolders.

View-only collaboration

You can now share notes or entire folders as view-only so that you’re the only one who can make changes.

More powerful search

Search can now recognize objects or scenes within the images you’ve added to your notes and can help you find specific text in the items you’ve scanned using the built-in document scanner. Search is also helpful before you type, with suggested searches that you can simply click to view.

New checklist options

Quickly reorder checklist items using drag and drop or keyboard shortcuts, and move checked items to the bottom and out of the way. If you’ve completed the checklist and want to use it again, you can click to uncheck all the items and start over.

Reminders

All-new design

The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt with an all-new user interface and more powerful features, making it easier than ever to create, organize, and keep track of reminders.

New edit buttons

Quickly add dates, times, locations, or flags to reminders using the new edit buttons, all without having to go to another view.

Enhanced Siri intelligence

You can type longer, more descriptive sentences and Reminders understands and provides relevant suggestions. Siri intelligence on your device can also help anticipate your needs by suggesting that you create a reminder while you make plans in Messages.

Attachments

Add attachments to your reminders to make them more informative and useful. You can add photos, scanned documents, or even web links that take you directly to a website related to the reminder.

Tasks and grouped lists

There are more options for organizing your reminders. You can capture tasks associated with a top-level reminder. You can also group multiple lists.

Smart lists

All-new smart lists automatically organize your upcoming reminders into easy-to-find categories like Today, Flagged, Scheduled, or All to see them in a single list.

Customize list appearance

Customize the appearance of your personal or shared iCloud lists, choosing from 12 beautiful colors and 60 expressive symbols.

Messages integration

Tag someone in a reminder and the next time you’re chatting with the person in Messages, you’ll be reminded that now might be a good time to talk.

Safari

Updated start page

An updated start page design includes favorites, frequently visited, and Siri suggestions that surface relevant websites in your browsing history, recently visited sites, bookmarks, reading list, iCloud Tabs, and links you receive in Messages.

Weak password warnings

When you sign in to an account in Safari with a weak, easy-to-guess password, Safari warns you and helps you replace it with a stronger one.

PiP from the tab audio button

Quickly enable Picture in Picture from the tab audio button.

Switch to open tab from the Smart Search field

If you start typing the address of a website that’s already open, Safari directs you to the open tab.

Mail

Block sender

Mail can block all email from specified senders and move their messages directly to the trash. Just as in Messages, you can access this feature by clicking the sender’s name in any email header.

Unsubscribe

An unsubscribe link for email messages from commercial lists now appears above the email header. Clicking Unsubscribe requests removal of your email address from the list.

Mute Thread

Mute Thread prevents notifications from an overly active email thread.

Updated classic layout

Arranges the Mail viewer in a column layout, with an option to preview the current message below or to the right of your message list.

Sidecar⁵

Extended desktop

Use your iPad as a second display for additional screen space. Refer to one app while you work in another, or see how a presentation looks in presentation mode on your iPad while editing it on your Mac.

View the Sidecar White Paper (PDF)

Mirrored desktop

Mirror the screen on your Mac to have two screens displaying the same content, making it perfect for sharing with others.

Wired or wireless

Connect your iPad to your Mac using a cable to keep it charged, or use it wirelessly — within 10 meters — for greater mobility.

Apple Pencil

Use the precision and intuitiveness of Apple Pencil with your favorite creative Mac apps that support drawing tablets. Draw and write naturally, edit a photo or graphic, and use it to point and click as you do with a mouse.

Gestures

Use the same Multi-Touch gestures you’re familiar with on iPad, along with all-new text editing gestures that let you cut, copy, paste, and undo without lifting your hands from the onscreen keyboard.

Sidebar

Get easy access to your most commonly used controls from the sidebar. Use modifier keys to enable shortcuts in pro apps, and access buttons that allow you to undo as well as display or hide the menu bar, Dock, and keyboard.

Touch Bar

For apps with Touch Bar support, the controls appear at the bottom of your iPad screen — even if your Mac doesn’t have a Touch Bar.

Developer support

Developers don’t need to do anything for Sidecar support — it just works. Apps with advanced stylus support can use Tablet Events in AppKit to enable pressure and tilt for Apple Pencil. Additionally, developers can specify custom behavior for double-tap on the side of Apple Pencil through a changeMode event.

Continuity Markup and Sketch

Continuity Markup

Write and sketch on PDFs or mark up your documents with Apple Pencil. See the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad.

Continuity Sketch

Create a sketch on your iPad using Apple Pencil and easily insert it into any document on your Mac.

Screen Time

Usage reports

Screen Time creates usage reports that show you how much time is being spent on your Mac, which apps are used most, and how many notifications are received. With iCloud, Screen Time combines all your usage information and syncs Downtime settings and App Limits across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Downtime

With Screen Time, you can schedule downtime so you (or your child) can only use specific apps you’ve approved.

App Limits

With App Limits, you can set the amount of time you want to use your apps and websites. Set App Limits for total time, categories, or specific apps.

Combined Limits

Create combined limits with a combination of app categories, specific apps, or websites.

One More Minute

When a limit is met, you can tap “One more minute” to give you time to quickly save your work or wrap up a conversation.

Communication Limits*

Communication Limits let you control who your children can communicate with and who can communicate with them throughout the day and during downtime.

Managed contact list for children

Parents can use Screen Time to manage the contacts that appear on their children’s devices.

Family Sharing

Parents can configure Screen Time from any device — iPhone, iPad, or Mac — and have everything set up for their kids on all their devices.

Security

Enhanced Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper will ensure that all new apps you install — from the App Store or the internet — have been checked for known security issues by Apple before you run them the first time and periodically thereafter. This extends the protection from the app’s source to include automated checks for what’s in the app.

Data protections

macOS Catalina checks with you before allowing an app to access your data in your Documents, Desktop, and Downloads folders; iCloud Drive; the folders of third-party cloud storage providers; removable media; and external volumes. In addition, you’re asked before an app can perform key logging or capture a still or video recording of your screen.

Activation Lock

All Mac models with the Apple T2 Security Chip now support Activation Lock — just like your iPhone or iPad. So if your Mac is ever misplaced or lost, the only person who can erase and reactivate it is you.

Dedicated system volume

macOS Catalina runs in a dedicated, read-only system volume — which means it is completely separate from all other data and helps improve the reliability of macOS.

DriverKit and user space system extensions

Previously many hardware peripherals and sophisticated features needed to run their code directly within macOS using kernel extensions, or kexts. Now these programs run separately from the operating system, just like any other app, so they can’t affect macOS if something goes wrong.

Find My

Two great apps in one

Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are now combined in a single, easy-to-use app to help you locate the people and devices that are important to you.

Find offline devices

Locate a missing device even if it’s not connected to Wi-Fi using crowd-sourced location. When you mark your device as missing and another Apple user’s device is nearby, it can detect your device’s Bluetooth signal and report its location to you. It’s completely anonymous and encrypted end-to-end, so everyone’s privacy is protected.

Enhanced location notifications

Location notifications include the ability to schedule notifications for different days of the week, more useful place names, and enhanced privacy controls.

Approve with Apple Watch

View passwords

Anywhere you need to type your Mac password, such as viewing passwords in Safari preferences, you can now double-click the side button on your Apple Watch to authenticate on your Mac.

Approving app installations

Unlock a locked note, approve app installations, unlock settings in System Preferences, and modify root files, all with your Apple Watch.

Accessibility

Voice Control

Voice Control is a new way to fully control your Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices entirely with your voice.

View the Accessibility White Paper (PDF)

Accurate dictation

Voice Control improves on the existing Enhanced Dictation feature using the Siri speech recognition engine, so you get the latest advances in machine learning for audio-to-text transcription.

Add custom words

Whether you’re writing a biology report, filling out a legal document, or emailing about a favorite topic, you can add custom words to ensure that Voice Control recognizes the words you commonly use.

On-device processing

All audio processing for Voice Control happens on your device, ensuring that your personal data is kept private.

Rich text editing

Thanks to rich text editing commands, you don’t have to rehearse before you speak. Making corrections is quick and easy. You can replace phrases by name. Try saying “Replace I’m almost there with I just arrived.” Fine-grained selection also makes it simple to select text. Try saying “Move up two lines. Select previous word. Capitalize that.”

Word and emoji suggestions

If you need to correct a word, there’s a new interface just for that. Simply ask to correct a word, and you’ll be presented with a list of suggested replacements.

Seamless transitions from dictation to commands

Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. For example, say “Happy Birthday. Tap send.” in Messages, and Voice Control sends “Happy Birthday” — just as you intended. You can also say “delete that”, and Voice Control knows to delete what you just typed.

Comprehensive app navigation

You can rely entirely on your voice to navigate an app. Comprehensive navigation is provided by navigation commands, names of accessibility labels, numbers, and grids.

Navigation commands

Navigation commands give you quick ways to interact with macOS and apps. You can open apps, search the web, open Spotlight, and more.

Names

You can easily navigate by telling Voice Control to select the name of an accessibility label for buttons, links, and more.

Numbers

Say “show numbers” to see numbers appear next to all clickable items onscreen. Use this to quickly navigate complex or unfamiliar apps. Numbers automatically appear in menus and whenever you need to disambiguate between items with the same name. Just say a number to click it.

Grids

If you ever need to touch a part of the screen that doesn’t have a control, use Grid overlays. Saying “show grid” superimposes a grid on your screen and allows you to precisely do things, like select, zoom, drag, and more.

Hover Text

Hover Text displays high-resolution zoom of text, text fields, menu items, buttons, and more in a dedicated window. Just press the Control key when hovering over text with your cursor, and a window with zoomed text appears alongside the standard interface — helping you stay contextually aware. Text is crisply displayed in a font and color of your choice. And you can interact with buttons and type right in the zoomed window.

Zoom Display

While using a second display, you can see the same screen up close and at a distance simultaneously. You can keep one monitor zoomed in and another at a standard resolution. Or keep a personal Mac zoomed in while giving a presentation.

Simplified tab navigation

VoiceOver users will enjoy simplified keyboard navigation that requires less drilling into unique focus groups. The Tab key more simply advances through selection of elements — such as window stoplights, toolbar buttons, and scroll bars.

Punctuation in iCloud

VoiceOver users often customize the way punctuation marks are spoken. These customizations are now stored in iCloud, giving you a consistent experience across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

Additional international braille tables

macOS Catalina adds more international braille tables and lets you quickly switch between them.

Improved VoiceOver support in Xcode

VoiceOver now reads aloud warnings, line numbers, and breakpoints in the Xcode text editor.

Display color filters

Users with color vision deficiencies can adjust display colors using new color filter options. Your Mac shifts the colors onscreen, helping you easily differentiate areas of confusion. And you can turn this preference on and off through the Accessibility Options pane using Command-Option-F5.

Tint your entire display

A new display option lets you tint your entire screen using a color of your choice. Some users may find that certain color tints help make text easier to read.

Apple ID Account Information

One place for your Apple ID account details

Now you can access all your important Apple ID account information right from System Preferences on your Mac.

Overview and helpful notifications

A new overview pane allows you to quickly review important tips and notifications to help ensure that your account is properly signed in and secure, and that all the features you expect are set up and working correctly.

Basic account and security details

Easily review account details such as your name, contact info, password, security details, payment and shipping info, and email newsletter preferences.

iCloud settings

Review and update your iCloud settings and manage or upgrade your storage plan anytime.

Media and purchases

Get easy access to your current subscriptions, past purchases, and account settings related to the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, Apple Books, Apple News, Apple TV, and more.

Family Sharing

View which subscriptions you’re sharing, which services are enabled, who has Ask to Buy turned on, and more.

View all your devices

View a list of all the devices you’re signed in to with your account. Review device details such as last backup completed, Find My status, and more.

QuickTime Player

Picture in Picture (PiP)

With a single click in the navigation controller, you can play video in a resizable window that isn’t blocked by other windows, allowing you to watch while working on other things.

Enhanced Movie Inspector

The Movie Inspector pane shows you even more in-depth technical information about the currently open media file. See key details such as video color space, HDR format, bit depth, scale, and aspect ratio.

Open Image Sequence

Create an H.264, HEVC, or ProRes-encoded movie file by navigating to a folder of sequentially numbered images, then choosing your desired resolution, frame rate, and encoding quality.

Timecode support

When QuickTime Player opens a media file with embedded timecode, it shows the time information in the onscreen navigation controller.

Transparent video support

Transparency in ProRes 4444 files can optionally be preserved when exporting to the HEVC format.

Home

HomeKit Secure Video

With a home hub such as an Apple TV or HomePod, securely record video to iCloud when activity by a person, animal, or vehicle is detected by your HomeKit-enabled cameras. Choose to receive notifications when clips are recorded and view them in the Home app on your Mac. In the Home app, a timeline of recordings is available to play from iCloud. You can also share a recording, delete it, or save it to your Photos library.

Audio in scenes and automations

HomePod and AirPlay 2–enabled speakers can now play songs, playlists, and radio stations from Apple Music in scenes and automations with your other HomeKit accessories.

International Features

New multilingual setup for macOS

Choose your languages, including those for keyboard and dictation, in Setup Assistant, and customize your language preferences from the start.

New relationship labels in Contacts

Contacts now includes hundreds of new, more specific relationship labels to help you manage your contact list. Examples include “younger cousin” and “elder cousin.”

Cantonese keyboard predictions

The new Cantonese predictions for Traditional Chinese Cangjie, Sucheng, Stroke, and Handwriting keyboards bring more relevant character and emoji predictions to Cantonese users.

Improved Japanese predictions

A new neural language model takes words typed earlier in the sentence into account, so predictions are more grammatically consistent and relevant to the subject matter.

New fonts for Indian languages

Get 34 new fonts, including four system fonts and 30 document fonts, for languages like Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, and many more.

New Indian English Siri voices

All-new Indian English male and female Siri voices allow Siri to be more natural and expressive.

New dictionaries

New dictionaries include Thai-English and Vietnamese-English.

Other Features

iCloud Drive folder sharing*

You can now share folders with a private link. Anyone who has access can see the folder in iCloud Drive, add new files, and get the latest versions of files.

Restore from snapshot

If your third-party software is incompatible with an update you just installed, use macOS Recovery to restore from a snapshot of your computer taken right before the installation. macOS and all your apps will work just as they did before you installed the update.

What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15 GM Seed #1 Beta 11 (19A582a)

UPDATE: 10/9/19 – macOS 10.15.0 is LIVE, What’s New? – mrmacintosh.com/macos-catalina-10-15-0-19a583

Today Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15 GM Seed #1 Beta 11 (19A582a)

Catalina 10.15 GM Seed #1 is here! GM stands for Gold Master, this term is from way back when CD and DVD media was still a thing. The GM build was the final production version of the OS burned to CD or DVD. Now that Catalina GM Build is live, we should be very close to the public release of 10.15.

This article is meant to save you time going through the notes to find what is new and what is still leftover from the last beta. I went through both Beta 10 and the new Catalina 10.15 GM Seed #1 (19A582a) release notes to find all the changes. When Apple releases the next Beta patch notes, the previous patch notes are overwritten and taken down.

10.15 GM Seed #1 or Beta 11 ?

NOTE: I am calling this GM Seed #1 because it’s my bet that we will see a GM Seed #2. The evidence is that Apple is still calling this release.

Install macOS Catalina Beta.app

I don’t know for sure though. Apple could just release the current build and change the name!!!

I for one really hope this is the case, as we still have some things that need to be addressed before launch.

Summary of GM Seed #1 Patch Notes

1 New Features
1 New Resolved issues
0 New Known Issues
0 New Deprecations

Report your bugs NOW!

This may be the final beta left to test. The public Release of Catalina is only a week or two away! You will want to get any bugs that you find into Apple now. If you get them in now, they could be fixed in the current beta cycle instead of waiting until after Octobers’s release date. If you wait it could be months before the fix is put into a dot release combo update.

Apple’s Public Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

11th Catalina 10.15 GM Seed (19A582a) – 10/03/19 – Current
10th Catalina 10.15 Beta 10 (19A578c) – 09/30/19 – Release Notes
9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Release Notes
8th Catalina 10.15 Beta 8 (19A558d) – 09/10/19 – Release Notes
7th Catalina 10.15 Beta 7 (19A546d) – 08/28/19 – Release Notes
6th Catalina 10.15 Beta 6 (19A536g) – 08/19/19 – Release Notes
5th Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 (19A526h) – 07/31/19 – Release Notes
4th Catalina 10.15 Beta 4 (19A512f) – 07/17/19 – Release Notes
3rd Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 (19A501i) – 07/02/19 – Release Notes
2nd Catalina 10.15 Beta 2 (19A487l) – 06/17/19 – Release Notes
1st Catalina 10.15 Beta 1 (19A471t) – 06/03/19 – Release Notes

How to Download macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta

Public Beta – Apple Beta Software Program
Sign up as an Apple Developer (Yearly $100)
Contact your Apple SE to join AppleSeed for IT

AppleSeed Patch Notes & Some Fixes not listed?

Some fixes are not going to be listed. Many issues are from #MacAdmins who have filed FeedBack Requests and Enterprise Support tickets. Most of these issues are resolved but are never publicly noted.

1. New Features in GM Seed #1

REMOVED!!! – Installing third party kernel extensions now requires that you restart your Mac before they’re permitted to load. (50340461)

New Resolved Issues in GM Seed #1

Privacy – Fixed an issue where turning on Curtain Mode prevented you from being able to control a remote Mac. (52900397)

New Known Issues in GM Seed #1

None

New Deprecations in GM Seed #1

None