Many of us had already suspected this to be the case, but it was the careful analysis of last week’s upgrade and updates by Josh Long Chief Security Analyst at Intego, which provided the damning evidence: more than 20 of the vulnerabilities fixed in 12.0.1 have been left unpatched in 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007. Last week, though, the penalties with staying on Big Sur or Catalina were spelled out in starker terms: if you want all the latest security fixes, then you must run the current release of macOS, as older versions, even though still in security maintenance, don’t get them all. So too for many of the bugs which afflict macOS 11. Stick with Big Sur, and you can be confident that those bugs will never be fixed, that your windows will continue to fly around when you least want them to, and you’ll have to remember to open the Bluetooth item a second time to make any sense of its figures. It was such an obvious bug that it’s disappointing how long it has taken to fix. ![]() The problem with the charges shown in the Bluetooth menu bar item wasn’t as disruptive, but you knew that if you didn’t check that twice and relied on the first values displayed, they’d reflect trackpad and keyboard charges many hours ago. Although it didn’t affect every app, as I use both MarsEdit and Messages a lot, I often wasted time undoing these errors and restoring order to my windows. Having clicked on its window to bring it to the front, the next click(s) were misinterpreted, usually causing that window to jump, and when a double-click to hurl it into into full-screen mode. The first of those affected MarsEdit, sometimes Messages, and a few other apps. Two that spring to mind are misinterpretation of clicks/taps, which could send the windows of some apps flying across the screen, and the misleading charge figures displayed for Bluetooth devices such as wireless trackpads and keyboards. Among the bugs fixed in 12.0.1 are several which have either been damaging to workflows or downright annoying. The last version of Big Sur to receive any significant fixes, other than those of importance to security, was 11.5.2, released in August, over two months ago. ![]() I’ve already explained why this is a bad choice as far as bug-fixes go. If your Mac is currently running Big Sur or any earlier version of macOS, it’s far easier to watch what happens with Monterey over the coming couple of months before making any decision about when to upgrade. Hopefully this will be fixed in later updates of Marsedit.The safest choice is so often to stick with what you’ve got. That’s annoying and yet another step I don’t want to worry about. When using the Upload Utility in Marsedit 3 the image (the screen dump above) isn’t uploaded in full resolution, so I need to re-upload it in the WordPress web interface. I’m using the plugin WP Retina 2x for displaying images in Retina. But on the other hand it’s way more capable than Blogo. But after trying out Blogo the Marsedit interface feels dated. It’s a powerful blog editor and everything you need is there. It’s a great application, yet it feels a bit old. The design of Marsedit haven’t changed in a long time. ![]() Still, it makes it easier to have access to the SEO fields directly in Marsedit 3. Although, I have to admit, I do generally still check the SEO settings page just to make sure I don’t get any glaring errors and preferably see all green lights in the SEO plugin before publishing. That was yet another reason for having to go to the WordPress web interface just to enter those fields. I’ve added custom fields for the excellent plugin Yoast WordPress SEO directly in Marsedit. But now it looks like I can write new articles in my usual way with Byword and then publish them with Marsedit 3 because it can convert Markdown before uploading the post to WordPress. There I can fill out all the fields for the SEO plugs and add pictures. When the article is ready for export, I use the Markdown to HTML converter in Marked2 and paste in the text into WordPress. I write the text in Byword and do the preview in Marked2. I usually try to do most of my blogging on my iPad, but when writing on my Mac I’ve used Byword in combination with Marked2 to do the initial texts written in Markdown. I’ve been dabbling around with different blog editors for Mac now for a while, trying to find one that suits my needs.
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