Monthly Archives: October 2013

10.9 Mavericks is your security update for 10.6 through 10.8.5

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Mavericks is free.

Its system requirements are the same as for Mountain Lion

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5444

It is also a security update:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6011

I surmise that Apple does not intend to provide security updates for older OS versions.  At least not for 10.8.

If you want to get patched, start upgrading to 10.9…

Update: 10/4/2013

While it was fun to speculate about Apple forcing us to upgrade to 10.9.  It was just speculation.  I now believe I was wrong and I expect Apple to release updates for older versions similar to its past behavior.