macOS 14 Sonoma

Hi mranonymous ,

Thank you for reaching out to our Sophos Community Forum.

As of now, here's what we know about the Sonoma support - Central Endpoint for macOS: Sonoma (macOS 14) support.

We will inquire internally and find more information about EAP. We’ll update this thread as we find out more.

"On September 26, 2023, Apple will be releasing macOS 14 (Sonoma). Sophos Central Endpoint for macOS supports this as of version 10.5.0 / 2023.4"

When will this version be released?

The release of macOS 10.5.0 will be complete by late September, though this date is subject to change should unforeseen issues arise. 

The engineering team is wrapping up the testing and will release 10.5.0 on or before September 26th.

Hello, 

Apologies if this is not the right place to ask, is it possible to add the MacOS 14 (Sonoma) installer to the list of controlled applications? It would be useful to be able to create policies to allow/block the installer from running on devices. 

If there's a different process to ask for this, please let me know. 

Thanks! 

Hi Stefan,

Normally we would have created an Application Control identity to block the installer but we've had issues with the last couple of releases due to the way that Apple have delivered the upgrade. It used to be the case that the upgrade was a standalone item that was executed, this we can stop as we can recognise the file and the event. The last couple of upgrades have been "in line" and not something that Application Control could stop.

We are looking again to see if there is a way we can control the Sonoma upgrade using Application Control but right now it's looking like we can't.

Regards,

Darren.

Hi Stefan,

Normally we would have created an Application Control identity to block the installer but we've had issues with the last couple of releases due to the way that Apple have delivered the upgrade. It used to be the case that the upgrade was a standalone item that was executed, this we can stop as we can recognise the file and the event. The last couple of upgrades have been "in line" and not something that Application Control could stop.

We are looking again to see if there is a way we can control the Sonoma upgrade using Application Control but right now it's looking like we can't.

Regards,

Darren.

Thank you for the prompt reply Darren! 

I understand the situation. Hopefully you will be able to figure something out. In the meantime, I will look into a "creative" solution to apply restrictions to update to MacOS 14. 

Best regards,

Stefan C.