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15.8.2 isn't released, but the 15.8.2 release candidate clearly is. I don't think think it's that crazy for people to be at least somewhat concerned that a fairly common important library got broken a bugfix release to a maintenance update that came out a month ago for a major version that came out two years ago without anyone internal testing it before publishing the RC.

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> 15.8.2 isn't released, but the 15.8.2 release candidate clearly is

That’s how release candidates work.

The headline could have included RC to make it accurate. As submitted it’s pretty misleading.

They used to make these beta versions private so only ios/macos developers could test on them to report bugs to get them fixed before public release. They since opened it up to anyone who wants to install it which generates a lot of outrage from the peanut gallery when the beta has bugs.

I think the reason so many people hit this in particular is enabling Sequoia beta channel is the only way to prevent the machine from wanting to upgrade to a newer major release.

... and the updates that come through the beta channel aren't clearly labelled as "beta" or "release candidate".

I've always found that quite strange. Clearly the information is present because they're not signed with the same keys.

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