Wednesday, March 22, 2006

We work really hard to help ensure our updates are of a high quality so people can install them. And any time we run into an issue, it's documented in our security communication so that customers know about it up front, and we push that information out through RSS, email, and deployment tools. Apple recently had to redo their most recent security update.

In the original advisory, they note that a new version is available, so that's good. But there's no RSS feed around it. You can get an RSS feed for ALL support articles, but not just for the ones that apply to security updates. Apple does have a security announce mailing list. But it doesn't seem to cover when there are new versions available when a bug is introduced by the update. One might argue that you don't need those things if you are using the built-in auto-update functionality of OSX, but I would argue back that the fact there was an update to the update might mean people turn that off to test updates before deployment because of problems like this. Oh well.