Apple re-releases macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 security update

Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 again, this time for users with Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The company had first released macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 update for Intel-based Macs over a week ago. This re-released update has a new build number 20B29, compared to the previous one which had the build number 20B50.

macOS Big Sur 11.0.1

macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 security update

Apple had first released macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 over a week ago with a huge number of security fixes. Initially released for Intel-based Macs, these security fixes are now available for Apple Silicon M1 MacBook AirMacBook Pro, and Mac mini. These security fixes were for the following:

  • App Store
  • Audio
  • Bluetooth
  • CoreAudio
  • CoreCapture
  • CoreGraphics
  • Crash Reporter
  • CoreText
  • Disk Images
  • Finder
  • FontParser
  • Foundation
  • ImageIO
  • Kernel
  • libxml2
  • libxpc
  • Logging
  • Mail
  • Messages
  • Model I/O
  • NetworkExtension
  • NSRemoteView
  • PCRE
  • Power Management
  • python
  • Quick Look
  • Ruby
  • Safari
  • Sandbox
  • SQLite
  • System Preferences
  • Wi-Fi
  • WebKit
  • Xsan

You can see the complete details of these security fixes, as well as information about the contributors here.

Now that Apple has gotten these security fixes out of the way, it is beta testing macOS 11.1 beta with developers and public beta testers. So far, we have only noticed minor user interface improvements throughout various parts of the operating system. Users have been complaining about performance issues and battery drain with the new macOS Big Sur update, and we expect Apple to focus on these issues with this upcoming release.

macOS Big Sur has also been bricking old 2013 and 2014 MacBook Pro models, as well as causing recovery issues on M1 Macs so hopefully, these will also be resolved with macOS 11.1 update.

For now, try our list of fixes for common macOS Big Sur issues, until Apple releases the new update to fix them for everyone.

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