Ahead of tomorrow’s iPhone 13 and Apple Watch Series 7 launch event, Apple has released the eight and potentially the final instalment of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. The company also released the sixth major instalment to macOS Big Sur. iOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.8 and macOS 11.6 Big Sur are looking like the final major update to these platforms before the arrival of their respective successors: iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterrey.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!According to the description, iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 “provides important security updates and is recommended for all users”. Further digging shows that the update fixes a flaw in CoreGraphics which indicates that targeted PDF document have been used to exploit this issue. It also fixes a vulnerability within WebKit which allows ‘maliciously crafted web content’ to exploit this issue.
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macOS 11.6 Big Sur improves the security of macOS and recommended for all users. It fixes both the CoreGraphics and WebKit vulnerabilities addressed by the updates above for mac users, and the 2021-005 security update for macOS Catalina does the same. Apple will allow users decide to upgrade to iOS 15 or stay with iOS 14. This means that there could be future security updates to the latter, however, most of the new features will most likely be reserved for iOS 15.