What’s New in macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a)

UPDATE: 10/03/19 – Catalina 10.15 GM Seed #1 is now live! What’s New ? mrmacintosh.com/whats-new-in-macos-catalina-10-15-gm-seed-1-beta-11-19a582a/

Today Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15 (19A573a) Beta 9 to Developers.

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 8 and the new Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) release notes to find all the changes. Like usual, I also have included the entire patch notes list as an archive. When Apple releases the next Beta patch notes, the previous patch notes are overwritten and taken down.

Summary of Beta 9 Patch Notes

• 1 New Features
• 2 New Resolved issues
• 2 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 few weeks 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 September’s release date. If you wait it could be months before the fix is put into a dot release combo update.

Link to Apple’s Public Developer Documentation

developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes

Previous 10.15 Beta Releases

• 9th Catalina 10.15 Beta 9 (19A573a) – 09/23/19 – Current Release
• 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.

1. New Features in Beta 9

iCloud – Launch daemons and launch agents introduce new user privacy protections. Specifying privacy-sensitive files and folders in a launchd property list might not work as expected and prevent the service from running. Having Program or ProgramArguments pointing to an executable in a privacy sensitive location is currently allowed, but may be restricted in a future release. (49702405)To comply with the new privacy protections, resources for a launchd service must be stored in locations that aren’t privacy sensitive. If necessary, the app can set up resources during its execution rather than using launchd property list keys, making it possible to grant the app access using System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy. The following launchd property list keys are affected: KeepAlive, PathState, QueueDirectories, Sockets, SockPathName, StandardErrorPath, StandardInPath, StandardOutPath, and WatchPaths.

2. New Resolved issues

Localization – Fixed an issue where certain languages might exhibit clipped or misaligned layout. (51068688, 50983852)

Localization – Fixed an issue where certain languages might display unlocalized text. (47765173, 51196633)

3. New Known Issues

Mac Catalyst – DOM keyboard events aren’t dispatched as expected in WKWebView when pressing or releasing keys. Web apps needing to track typed characters can instead listen for DOM input events. (54580414)

Remote Desktop – Turning on Curtain Mode prevents you from being able to control a remote Mac. (52900397)

4. New Deprecations