[jmull]

> Or, they just won’t want to install the latest OS because it doesn’t have anything they want or need (that’s me, I run 10.13).

(Context is Apple asking bug originators to verify whether or not the bug still occurs in the latest OS.)

This seems contradictory to the entire article. The point of logging a bug at all is to get it fixed. The fix would be coming in a future release. If you don’t want to take the latest updates that’s fine, but how are you going to get bug fixes?

[vsl]

They have a habit of spamming this request semi-randomly, seemingly without underlying knowledge of an attempted fix - e.g. you get the same request, at the same time, on several bugs. Sometimes it’s obvious it doesn’t come from any knowledge of a fix, e.g. asking to verify if a feature request is still a problem when no such feature was added.

So you say no, it wasn’t (it never is for me) and the bug goes back into limbo.

[DoofusOfDeath]

I wonder if the author mean that he's stuck on OS X 10.13.n, and would be willing to install OS X 10.13.(n+1), just not 10.14?

[redwoodmonkey]

I am the author. I always do dot upgrades, as they are (usually) security updates. I wouldn't say I am "stuck" on any particular OS; I choose to remain on it for stability.

[jedieaston]

Apple doesn't do point upgrades for previous releases unless there's a critical security bug in them though, so that wouldn't happen. If you want the problem fixed you have to jump to the next major release because that's what 90% of the active install base is on, since it's free and easy to install.

[valleyer]

> Apple doesn't do point upgrades for previous releases unless there's a critical security bug in them

This is not true. Minor updates to Mac OS X pretty much always contain a handful of non-security bug fixes.

[saagarjha]

I have never seen Apple push an update to a previous version of macOS unless there was some critical bug or security vulnerability in it.

[valleyer]

Many minor macOS updates add features. 10.6.6 added the App Store. 10.7.2 added iCloud. More recently, 10.14.3 [0] added things as small as "a menu item to News for opening a story in Safari". (As an arguably even more trivial example, 10.14.1 added new emoji.)

Most minor updates also fix small, non-critical bugs, like 10.13.4 [1], which "fixes an issue that may prevent web link previews from appearing in Messages".

Do all of these updates fix security bugs too? Yes, because a company as big as Apple is probably always fixing security bugs. That doesn't mean they ONLY do minor updates for security bugs though.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209149#macos10143

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208533

[saagarjha]

None of those were released when the operating system they applied to was a "previous" version of macOS.