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Perhaps - but Apple has used very old core utilities for a very long time (licensing issues) but ensures they get security updates. Until recently, they used, w
by gjsman-1000 5y ago
Perhaps - but Apple has used very old core utilities for a very long time (licensing issues) but ensures they get security updates. Until recently, they used, what, bash from 2006?
- 1over137 5y agoThere's no licensing issue with LibreSSL, nor any of the other ancient utilities from FreeBSD or elsewhere that Apple doesn't keep up-to-date.
- bombcar 5y agoIf the old version has known security flaws it should be possible to exploit them, correct? If those exploits don’t work perhaps Apple is playing dolly nuggets with the version number.
- arp242 5y agoNah, there are all sorts of missing features, some of which were added over a decade ago. With a few small exceptions and modifications much of the Unix base has been quite dead for a long time.
- simonh 5y agoThe suggestion being made is that bugs and vulnerabilities are being fixed without adding new features, in order to provide a safe but very stable feature set.
- _-david-_ 5y agoThere were issues with utilities that were using GPLv3. That is why they switched to Zsh instead of Bash for example.