Upcoming changes -- testing needed!

[Gregory Neagle]

The Munki5dev branch has accumulated a non-trivial number of changes, and so a beta of Munki 5.5 is not far off.

Some of the changes:

  - A new method of finding client certs for mTLS: https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1077 (Thanks to @np5)

  - This also addresses some issues around client certs some admins reported when upgrading to macOS 11.3 or later.

  - This required the addition of asn1crypto to the Python framework

  - Related: a new option for the Munki package build script to include a client cert package: https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1091 (Thanks to @np5)

  - UI change: when there are no optional installs defined, all labels other than Updates are hidden: https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1089 (Thanks to @macmule)

  - When the InstallAppleSoftwareUpdates preference is True on Apple silicon:

    - Munki will not actually attempt to install any Apple updates on Apple silicon

    - Managed Software Center will now display pending Apple updates and direct users to install them using the Software Update pane in System Preferences

    - "Encouragement" as described here will happen on Apple silicon for Apple updates as well as "Munki" updates: https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/aggressive-update-notifications-in-munki-5 

  - Bumped the Python version to 3.9.5 (from 3.9.4)

I hope to get a beta release out this week, but if you have the time and ability to test now, please do.

-Greg

[Gregory Neagle]

Fixing a mistake...

This change:

a new option for the Munki package build script to include a client cert package: https://github.com/munki/munki/pull/1091

was actually from @rrenstrom

-Greg

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[Gregory Neagle]

Beta release here: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v5.5.0b1

-Greg