hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and mac os monterey 12.3.1 was released yesterday to
the public this is available to anyone that can install mac os 12 and it's available now just find
it by going to your software update you can go to your system preferences click on software update
and you should see it there so if you're not seeing it you may have to click on advanced click
ok and then it will check for an update again that's usually the easiest way to find the update
now if we close this you can see that mac os monterey came in at 1.34 gigabytes for this
particular update so it's not a huge update and probably took 15 to 20 minutes to install
now along with this apple also released ios 15.4.1 ipad os 15.4.1 along with watchos 8.5.1 and tvos
and homepod os 15.4.1 all of those are available now now let's take a look at
the build number and talk about what's new so we'll click on the apple click about this mac
and as you can see the version is 12.3.1 if we click on that you'll see the build number is
21e258 and this particular update fixes two things or at least that's what apple's let us know about
if there's not even more fixes than that the first thing has to do with usbc or thunderbolt external
displays where they're having an issue when connected to a mac mini as a second display so
if you have a 2018 mac mini this could be an issue and this should resolve that issue it's specific
to that particular device however it could work on later devices as well that we're having problems
the update also resolves an issue with bluetooth devices such as game controllers according to
apple where they could disconnect from your mac after playing audio through some beats
headphones so why this actually causes an issue specifically with beats headphones is hard to say
but it's something that they've resolved in addition to the bug fixes i've mentioned apple
also updated security so you can see that here where it says apple security updates scroll down
and you'll see mac os monterey 12.3.1 if we click on this you'll see that they've addressed two
issues at least that they've told us about the first one is apple avd where it says
an impact was an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
the description or the fix for this was an out of bounds right issue was addressed with improved
bounds checking apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited
in addition to this they've fixed issues with intel graphics drivers if you have intel graphics
on your mac the impact was an application may be able to read kernel memory to fix it an
out-of-bounds read issue may lead to disclosure of kernel memory and was addressed with improved
input validation again apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited
and again both of these were submitted by anonymous researchers so those issues have
been addressed in this particular update as far as future updates while we're waiting to see if
apple's going to have future changes or anything since it's mostly feature complete if we click on
calendar you'll see here being that it's april 1st so far we don't have wwdc invites or the
worldwide developer conference invites typically apple sends these out at the end of march but it
looks like if they are going to send out invites and then allow developers to join whether that be
in person or virtually usually we should see those very soon typically those events are held in the
first or second week of june and when those events are available then you'll be able to see the new
versions of ios and mac os and watch os and so on so we're waiting for that typically we'll have mac
os updates that fix bugs and security issues all the way up until september where we'll have the
next release so if apple continues to do things like they normally do that's what we can expect
other than that there's nothing else mentioned so it's a minor update but definitely something
i would advise you update so if you were wondering if you should update to this version mac os 12.3.1
i would advise it for the security updates and of course if you were having those issues with
bluetooth those could fix issues with headphones and more so hopefully that resolves issues if you
were having them so we should see some better bluetooth connectivity across all our devices
based off of this particular surround of updates now if you found anything else in this particular
version of mac os 12.3.1 i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and if you'd like to get
your hands on this wallpaper i'll leave the ios version you can see here linked in the description
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