![]() I know that this was not the case prior to Security Update 2014-004, because when we were modifying our apps to remove custom resource rules and meet Apple's new requirements, I had specifically tested everything on 10.8, 10.9, and 10.10. Again, rejected by Gatekeeper on 10.8.5, just like on 10.9.5. For example, I tried older, archived versions of my company's apps that used custom resource rules. In order to confirm the behavior, I tested with other apps. To my great surprise, though, Gatekeeper rejected the Flash Player installer … on OS X 10.8.5! Not surprisingly, Adobe had failed to update the code signature on the Flash Player installer for the new 10.9.5 Gatekeeper requirements. Needless to say, if you're familiar with it, the Flash Player installer is one of the work pieces of junk ever written. For work purposes, I needed to test Safari running Flash Player, so I was forced to install it soon after installing the 2014-004 security update. Probably because I use Google Chrome as my default web browser, which embeds its own special version of Flash Player, unlike Safari, which uses the system-wide version of Flash Player if installed. Until a few days ago, I had somehow managed to avoid installing Adobe Flash Player on my Mac running OS X 10.8. I discovered this hidden fact by complete accident. There is no mention of this at all by Apple, anywhere, certainly not in the release notes. What nobody was expecting, and as far as I can tell, what nobody but me has noticed yet, is that the Gatekeeper change, or a significant subset thereof, was included with the 2014-004 Security Update for Mac OS X 10.8.5. We also knew, via the technical note, that the Gatekeeper change was included with the Mac OS X 10.10 Developer Preview. And to some extent, the Mac media helped to publicize it to users in a way that Apple did not. But at least we developers knew it was coming. ![]() There's nothing mentioned about Gatekeeper on the download page, or the details page, or even on the security content page. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be documented at all for users. This was documented, for developers, in a technical note. Lack of Communication Lack of Communication September 23, 2014Īs I noted in a previous article, Mac OS X 10.9.5 included the biggest change to Gatekeeper since the introduction of Gatekeeper.
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