“Apple fixed dozens of vulnerabilities in its software on Monday, including 60 vulnerabilities in its operating system, OS X, and 43 in its mobile operating system, iOS,” Chris Brook reports for Threatpost.
“The updates mostly fix a number of glitches and bugs under the hood of the OS,” Brook reports. “As usual, the bulk of them apply to software libraries like OpenSSL, LibreSSL, and libxml2. Apple updated each library to their most recent versions to mitigate the issues.”
“The updates are likely some of the last both OS X and iOS will receive in the near future as the company has its hands full readying new versions, iOS 10 and macOS Sierra, for release later this fall,” Brook reports. “Apple released the third beta of of both iOS 10 and macOS Sierra to developers and public beta testers on Monday, as well.”
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MacDailyNews Take:
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Not sure exactly why, but my iMac is running super slow after this update. Rebooting again didn’t help. And I don’t see any process eating up enough CPU cycles to account for this (accountsd is at 60%, but only on one core).
Not happy.
Consider backing up your files, reformatting your hard drive and doing a clean install. I did this with my iMac a couple of months ago when the same problem happened. After the clean install, the system was much faster than even before the issue presented itself.
Don’t forget to backup your important data if you decide to do this relatively time-consuming chore. It was the proper decision for my situation and your mileage may vary.
that doesn’t helped much for production macs
Gee … that sounds like something we would have done with Windows 95!
Are you sure Apple OS’s are better than Windows?
I would only ever CONSIDER doing something so extreme if my computer was completely unusable — endlessly crashing or so slow, for so long, that I had no other option. I agree with “Hilarious” that having to reformat my hard drive is something I associate with Windows crashes, not OS X upgrades.
In 26 years of working on Macs eight hours a day, I have NEVER had to reformat my drive and start from scratch — other than to install or initialize a brand new drive.
Turns out most of the sluggishness happened with some process tied to simultaneously moving our organization from Outlook Exchange server to Office 365. After a couple of hours (and a couple of frantic reboots that had no effect), the slowdown stopped and everything is snappy once again.