No, we didn’t time travel 3 weeks into the past. A new version of macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F2059) was released yesterday.
Today for some reason and maybe for the first time, Apple released an update to a previous full installer release. The previous build version macOS 10.14.5 (18F2058) was released on July 9th and covered the new 2019 13″ MacBook Pro and 2019 MacBook Air. Apple released MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 (18G84) on July 22 and unified all builds. That means you can install 10.14.6 on any Mac.
I reported on the previous build (18f2058) in a previous article. mrmacintosh.com/macos-mojave-10-14-5-18f2058-full-forked-installer-app-released/
Why would Apple do this ?
I honestly have no clue! Again since 10.14.6 is a unified build we should have no need for a updated installer of a previous build. A user in MacAdmins Slack mentioned that this might be an update to 2058 for the factory restores. If that was the case why was it just now released and not 3 weeks ago? Or maybe this build version was for Internet recovery or something, again though this does not make any sense since agin 10.14.6 is unified.
If you know why, please feel free to Contact Me.
TBH, this article was just a way for me to sneak in a picture of one my favorite memes “Confused Nick Young” into an article picture. Hehe
H/T to Kevin M Cox from MacAdmins.slack.com for the heads up on macOS Mojave 10.14.5 (18F2059).