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<div><div class="plaintext"><p dir="auto">On 17 Dec 2020, at 7:30, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p dir="auto">On 16 Dec 2020, at 17:06, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">I'm running Build 6151, from the 2.0 branch, and will likely need to move to Big Sur very soon.<br>
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a) Will 6151 work? (In brief tests on a scratch machine, I didn't notice any problems, but those tests were brief)</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Printing doesn't work and there are other less serious issues, but note that the 2.0 branch won't get any more updates. I'll be retiring it as soon as I'm confident the 1.x branch can fully replace it (a few Viewer related preferences are still missing).<br>
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<blockquote><p dir="auto">b) Will I be able to install the latest beta from the 1.x branch without problems with configurations and databases?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Yes. I also recommend using the latest test release on Big Sur: Hold down ⌥ when clicking “Check Now” in the Software Update preferences pane.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Thanks. I installed it, with that update, on the scratch machine. With<br>
one exception, it seems fine—but the exception will likely annoy some<br>
people: it's not showing up in Launchpad. That is, I uncompressed<br>
the tar file and dragged it to /Applications. The icon isn't there, nor<br>
can the search function find it. It's not problem for me, since not only<br>
can I just fire it up from Finder, I keep it pinned to my Dock. Why not—<br>
it's virtually always running…</p>
<blockquote><blockquote><p dir="auto">By "very soon", I mean "my new laptop will be arriving tomorrow or Friday"…</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Congrats on the new laptop. (Note that MailMate is not a universal app yet if it's an M1 CPU, but it should still work.)<br>
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</blockquote><p dir="auto">Arrival is delayed a bit—a storm that's dropping 45cm of snow can<br>
affect deliveries… (I ordered an Intel CPU—I really want the 32 GB<br>
of RAM, and there were too many applications I rely on that weren't<br>
officially supported.)</p>
<br><p dir="auto"> --Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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