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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 to Developers

Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming two weeks after the release of the first macOS Big Sur 11.5 beta.

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Developers can download the ‌‌‌‌macOS Big Sur‌‌‌‌ 11.5 beta using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper profile from the Apple Developer Center.

macOS Big Sur 11.5 may be a more minor update focusing on under-the-hood performance improvements and bug fixes for issues that weren't able to be addressed in the macOS Big Sur 11.4 update. No new features were found in the first beta.

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Realityck Avatar
69 months ago
If you get this installed, goto terminal and enter "sysctl kern.version" so we can see if Apple has updated the kernel version from the first beta.

MacOS 11.14 release is Darwin Kernel Version 20.5.0 May 8
MacOS 11.5 beta 1 is Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0 May 10

I am curious if they introduced an updated kernel at all with this beta 2 after 2 weeks time. Occasionally see a graphics related reboot, so either their AMD drivers or kernel being used.
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justperry Avatar
69 months ago

Would someone be able to check the AMD driver version please?

About this Mac > System Report… > Software > Extensions > AMDSupport

(Version in 11.4 is 4.5.14)


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Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
69 months ago
Would someone be able to check the AMD driver version please?

About this Mac > System Report… > Software > Extensions > AMDSupport

(Version in 11.4 is 4.5.14)

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blazerunner Avatar
69 months ago
6700 XT drivers?
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Killerbob Avatar
69 months ago
I am a developer and usually I get the dev betas immediately.
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69 months ago

hmmmm - one day later, and I am still not seeing it. I have rebooted, and I have manually checked a few times, but I am still on version 11.5 Beta (20G5023d).
Are you a developer? If not then the Public Beta is still not online, which is like to take place later today or later on Friday as that seems to be the historic deployments for the Public Betas.
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