Networking changes coming in macOS 27

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 5:53 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #46

pvtmert wrote: post #2

Although TimeCapsule is more than decade old, it serves nicely with TimeMachine (automatic backups). Sad to see that going away permanently for Apple Silicon.

"Dropping support for things just because they are old" is typical commercial software behavior. I can run the latest Linux kernel and still have access to an internal floppy disk drive if I wanted to, yet billion dollar companies can't seem to manage to support 10 year old stuff. I still am sore from when I "upgraded" macOS and suddenly support for my 1080i TV was gone. Yesterday it worked fine, today it's gone. All…

Post by dwroberts » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 6:48 AM UTC

joe_mamba wrote: post #131

Ar-Curunir wrote: post #65

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Just this week we've seen Linux talking about dropping support for some older hardware precisely because attacks against it were becoming easier with LLMs.

Do you have a detailed source for this? I want to read more about it. Because I noticed my old Core 2 Quad PC with Nvidia 8600GT that my parents use as their email and Facebook machine, doesn't boot with any linux newer than Kernel 6.1 even though I can get Windows 11 to boot on it. So the myth around "Linux is great for old PCs", highly depends on what HW you have.

Post by adastra22 » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 7:21 AM UTC

runlevel1 wrote: post #189

throw0101c wrote: post #13

Time Capsule has been unsupported since 2018 (last shipped 2013): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule I think there's some population of folks that have been doing NAS TM backups over AFP, and they'll now have to switch to SMB.

I still use AFP on my NAS for a few reasons: 1. When I benchmarked it, AFP was significantly faster than SMB. Both with SMB2 and SMB3. Even when transport encryption was turned off. 2. On SMB2+, symlinks created by the client are not real symlinks. They're "Minshall+French" links which only look like symlinks to other SMB2+ clients. To the server and NFS mounts they look like flat files with the target path encoded i…

Post by saagarjha » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:07 AM UTC

jballanc wrote: post #187

ninkendo wrote: post #169

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macOS 26 still has a hard kernel panic if you try to mount an NFS share with krb5 auth but don’t have a valid Kerberos ticket. 100% reproducible. Every OS update I try mounting with no ticket, get a panic, fill in the error reporting dialog with a nice “hope you had a nice holiday break!” message or whatever is seasonally appropriate, with the same simple steps to reproduce. It’s just kinda comical at this point. My…

It's been a while since I worked at Apple, but back in the day the entire OS X Server team made extensive use of kerberized NFS shares for moving around large files... ...the last version of Server shipped in 2021 (and the last real version shipped almost a decade before that).

Post by saagarjha » Tue, Apr 28, 2026, 8:09 AM UTC

AlexandrB wrote: post #137

laserlight wrote: post #114

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Not that it impacts your argument significantly, but for the sake of completeness, Apple employs a huge number of retail employees.

Yes. A more useful number would be how many employees are working on macOS specifically. Hard to find a definitive number for that.