February 29, 2024 - macOS RC v1.8.0 Beta Release

A new version of the macOS RC is now available via the Beta channel. This version can be downloaded from the dashboard

Deployments

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Roaming Clients

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Install.

Additionally, your existing RCs can be configured to receive the Beta release via auto-update by modifying its Release Channel from

Roaming Clients

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Manage

For more details on Release Channels and the current versions available for both Beta and Production channels, check out our help docs.

Included in macOS v1.8.0

Improvements 🛠️

Support for Captive Portals has been improved in this version with more intelligent handling of fallback to local network resolution to access the captive portal site and accept terms. Networks that previously required manually navigation to captive.apple.com should now reliability forward to the captive portal without specific user action.

Bug Fixes 🪲

Resolved a reporting issue that could display "127.0.0.1" instead of hosthame for queries generated after connecting to a Captive Portal

We are continuing to gather feedback from the wide variety of captive portals and have have included additionally logging via the Diagnostic Tool to assist with further investigations if have you experience difficulties connecting. Please share any feedback you have while running v1.8.0