munki v5.0.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-07-07 // almost 4 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ This is the official release of Munki 5.0.1, a bug-fix update to the Munki tools.

    ๐Ÿ‘€ See https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Munki-5-Information for information on the changes in Munki 5.

    Please discuss the changes in the munki-dev mailing list, and open reproducible code issues in the issues section here.

    ๐Ÿš€ Changes from the 5.0 release:

    • โšก๏ธ In configurations where an internal softwareupdate server replica was not always available to clients (perhaps it is only reachable via VPN), Munki would "clear" its record of any pending Apple updates if the softwareupdate replica was not reachable. This caused the more aggressive notifications in 5.0 to not happen, as Munki kept "forgetting" when the update was originally available to the client. This has been addressed. f81fe08
    • โšก๏ธ Don't run managedsoftwareupdate at logout if there are pending Apple updates that require a restart -- this could lead to failed updates as either managedsoftwareupdate or Apple Software Update might trigger a restart before the other tool was done installing its updates. 36d8195
    • โšก๏ธ Changes to make "aggressive update notifications" work better if the user leaves Managed Software Center open but moved mostly off-screen. 353d542
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fix for parsing items with a "name" ending in a hyphen. 09af1c2
    • ๐Ÿ›  Other small fixes and tweaks. A complete list of changes is here: v5.0.0...v5.0.1