What's new in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.7
Sep 11, 2022
- Reverted and improved Library Validation Disabler patch
- Fixed issue where built-in installer downloading implementation may not download the latest Catalina installer
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.5 (Sep 8, 2022)
- Added much-needed improvements to Legacy Video Card Patch for non-Metal video cards
- Fixed Library Validation/App Crashing issues
- Updated MouSSE to latest version
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.4 (May 29, 2020)
- Fixed compatibility with Catalina version 10.15.5
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.3 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Added support for creating bootable Recovery partitions
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.2 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Fixed an issue where Safe Mode may not work on some systems
- Added more warnings to alert users if their machine needs a system firmware update in order to boot from APFS volumes
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4.1 (Apr 17, 2020)
- Fixed an issue where permissions for some third-party applications may not work
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.4 (Apr 1, 2020)
- Fixed a minor SIP issue
- Fixed an issue where brightness control and/or Night Shift options would not appear under the Displays pane of System Preferences
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.6 (Apr 1, 2020)
- Fixed an issue where AMFI may prevent some third-party applications from launching in 10.15.4
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.5 (Mar 29, 2020)
- Fixed all 10.15.4 issues, 10.15.4 support has now been fully restored
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.4 (Mar 26, 2020)
- Due to major issues with 10.15.4, this version of Catalina Patcher has been reverted to 10.15.3 support only
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.1 (Mar 25, 2020)
- Added support for Catalina version 10.15.4
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.0 (Dec 11, 2019)
- Added support for Catalina version 10.15.2
- Added a feature to detect whether or not certain Mac models need to have newer system firmware installed
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.2.3 (Nov 18, 2019)
- Updated the Legacy Video Card Patch, finally fixing the long-present grey Menu Bar and Finder Sidebar issues users would experience in Light Mode with non-Metal video cards. Huge thanks to @ASentientBot and @testheit for their work on developing these patches
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.6 (Nov 13, 2019)
- Updated Apple installer certificate, to fix the issue where the system date needed to be set back for Mojave to install successfully
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.5 (Nov 4, 2019)
- Fixed an issue with the Legacy Video Card Patch where 32-bit apps would not launch
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.4 (Nov 4, 2019)
- Updated the Legacy Video Card Patch, finally fixing the long-present grey Menu Bar and Finder Sidebar issues users would experience in Light Mode with non-Metal video cards. Huge thanks to @ASentientBot and @testheit for their work on developing these patches
- Updated SSE4.2 AMD Driver patch, replacing the old implementation with a new SSE4.2 emulator, thanks to @Syncretic
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.3 (Jun 5, 2019)
- Fixed a video playback issue with non-Metal video cards.
- Added a patch to allow Metal-compatible AMD video cards to work under systems that don't have SSE4.2 support, such as the Mac Pro 3,1.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.2 (May 14, 2019)
- Added full support for Mojave version 10.14.5
- Fixed an issue where some machines with older nVidia GPUs may kernel panic randomly.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.1 (Apr 30, 2019)
- Added new fixes for non-Metal video cards.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.3.0 (Mar 26, 2019)
- Added support for Mojave version 10.14.4
- Fixed an issue with graphics acceleration on non-Metal GPUs
- Added support for previously unsupported Broadcom BCM4321 WiFi modules
- Includes a new Patch Updater version that introduces a new Patch integrity check feature.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.2.3 (Oct 31, 2018)
- Added support for Mojave version 10.14.1
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.2.2 (Sep 27, 2018)
- Fixed some minor compatibility issues with the final release of Mojave
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.2.1 (Sep 25, 2018)
- Updated application for final release of Mojave
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.2.0 (Aug 29, 2018)
- Added APFS booting patch for machines with non-APFS compatible BootROMs.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.1.2 (Aug 7, 2018)
- Added support for Mojave Developer Preview 6.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.1.1 (Aug 3, 2018)
- Fixed some minor glitches with the installer
- Added some extra features to the installer
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.1.0 (Jul 31, 2018)
- Added support for Mojave Developer Preview 5.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.0.2 (Jul 30, 2018)
- Fixed an issue where the installer would crash when attempting to upgrade a current install of macOS.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 1.0.1 (Jul 30, 2018)
- First non-beta release
- Fixed a GUI glitch in the main patcher window
- Added dark mode support to Patch Updater application
- Fixed an issue where the tool would fail to create a patched installer volume when running under Mojave.
- Added the Legacy iSight Patch to the post-install tool
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.6.2 (Apr 23, 2018)
- Improved macOS downloading implementation.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.6.1 (Apr 15, 2018)
- Updated to add support for a recent change of the way Apple serves the download of macOS High Sierra.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.6.0 (Apr 3, 2018)
- Added support for downloading a 10.13.4 installer.
- Fixed an issue where drives created using a 10.13.4 Installer App would not boot.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.5 (Mar 27, 2018)
- Fixed an issue where the macOS Downloading feature wouldn't work under Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.4 (Feb 8, 2018)
- Added a new feature allowing the download of macOS High Sierra to resume if an error occurs, or the download is stopped.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.3 (Jan 24, 2018)
- Fixed a couple minor issues with the installation environment.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.2 (Jan 19, 2018)
- Added a new feature that allows custom/modified kexts to load even with SIP enabled, getting rid of the need to have SIP enabled when running a patched copy of High Sierra.
- Fixed an issue where the APFS patch would not work properly on some APFS volumes.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.1 (Nov 29, 2017)
- Fixed an issue where the application would fail to create bootable installer volumes under Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
- Fixed an issue where the Software Update Patch may cause the App Store to become unresponsive.
- Made minor UI changes.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.5.0 (Nov 10, 2017)
- Completely re-wrote initial installer volume creation/patching implementation.
- Added support for using an internal drive as a patched installer.
- Improved error catching.
- Decreased the likelihood that an error will occur while creating a patched installer drive.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.4.0 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Added support for booting encrypted APFS volumes.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.6 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Added notifications for when drive creation is complete.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.5 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Fixed an issue where the AMD GPU Patch would be unnecessarily installed on some machines.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.4 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Fixed an issue with the macOS Downloading feature.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.3 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Fixed a crashing issue with the post-install tool.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.2 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Fixed an issue with the AMD GPU Patch with Radeon HD 7xxx series cards.
- Fixed an issue where the tool may crash while creating a USB drive.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 2.3.1 (Oct 9, 2017)
- Added support for the final release of High Sierra.
- Includes a new version of Patch Updater that allows viewing and re-installing of installed patch updates.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.7 (Apr 6, 2017)
- Fixed compatibility issue with Mac OS X 10.6-10.8
- Minor user interface improvements
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.6 (Apr 3, 2017)
- Added support for 10.12.4 Installer Apps
- Minor stability improvements
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.5 (Mar 26, 2017)
- Fixed minor permissions issues
- Added the ability to drag the Sierra Installer App onto the app icon to automatically open it.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.4 (Mar 14, 2017)
- Greatly improved the progress bar accuracy.
- Minor user interface improvements.
- Added a new verbose output view, to allow users to solve issues more easily.
- Added an in-app machine check to inform users whether or not their machine is supported.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.3 (Jan 19, 2017)
- Added a new software update patch, allowing system updates to be installed without the use of extra software.
- Fixed some minor permissions issues.
- Fixed an issue with the "SIP Enabled" warning LaunchDaemon.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.2 (Dec 9, 2016)
- Added a new feature to the post-install tool that shows more details about the patches included with the tool.
- Fixed a glitch with the Utilities Launcher program, where it would show options for utilities that weren't present on the system.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.1 (Nov 29, 2016)
- Added a new utility that runs when the installer drive boots, allowing users to access the Utilities menu without the Menu Bar.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.2.0 (Nov 13, 2016)
- Fixed an issue when creating a USB drive using a 10.12.1 Installer App.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.1.9 (Nov 3, 2016)
- Added support for Sierra 10.12.1 Installer Apps.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.1.8 (Oct 25, 2016)
- Added a boot-time utility to warn users if SIP is enabled on their system.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.1.7 (Oct 17, 2016)
- Added a patch to fix the volume control issue on the iMac 8,1.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.1.6 (Oct 7, 2016)
- Fixed an issue preventing users from booting Sierra in Safe Mode.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.1.4 (Oct 7, 2016)
- Removed Sierra App Store downloading feature, due to error with Apple ID.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.0.8 (Oct 7, 2016)
- Added a new feature allowing users to download macOS Sierra from the App Store on unsupported Macs.
New in macOS Catalina Patcher 4.0.4 (Oct 7, 2016)
- Fixed a major issue with Recovery Partition Patch.