[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.

[valleyer]

Oh ok, I misunderstood you... sorry