URGENT: Munki 7.1-7.1.1 issue with macOS updates

[Gregory Neagle]

There is a bug in the new “macOS has been out-of-date for XX days” notification functionality in Munki 7.1 and 7.1.1. This bug can cause Munki to do an aggressive notification after seeing that macOS 26.5 is available.

Munki 7.1.2 will be released later today to fix this bug. An installer package is already available if you do not want to wait for the official release: https://github.com/macadmins/munki-builds/releases/download/v7.1.2.5700/munkitools-7.1.2.5700.pkg

If you want to avoid the aggressive notifications without having to update to Munki 7.1.2 (to give you more time to test, etc), you can do one (or more) of several things:

1) Set ManagedInstalls’ InstallAppleSoftwareUpdates to false (Munki then won’t notify about pending Apple updates at all)

2) Set ManagedInstalls’ AggressiveUpdateNotificationDays to 0 (or a very high value) (Munki won’t then do aggressive update notifications)

3) Set Apple software updates deferral of enforcedSoftwareUpdateMinorOSDeferredInstallDelay to some higher value (high enough to buy you more time)

-Greg

[Gregory Neagle]

Official release: https://github.com/munki/munki/releases/tag/v7.1.2