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Apple has released an urgent security update for iOS 26.3.1 and other OSes. See About the security content of Background Security Improvements for iOS 26.3.1, iPadOS 26.3.1, macOS 26.3.1, and macOS 26.3.2.
Unfortunately it does not show up in Settings → General → Software Update! And I saw no notification about it either.
Users apparently need to find the Settings → Privacy & Security → Background Security Improvements setting and manually install the update (requiring a reboot in this case). And note that the Automatically Install setting is turned ON on my device. Apparently that doesn't do anything though. (The update was released on March 17, 2026 and I checked on March 20. So for 3 days the automatic update did not happen.)
So I predict that only a few users will actually find and install the important security fix.
Nice going Apple!
Update: On one Apple iPad running iPadOS 26.3.1 the security update appears to have installed automatically. So that seems to sometimes work? Still, from a user interface perspective it makes no sense to split of the UI for installing background security updates from the normal Software Update UI.
Update #2: On March 24, 2026, only a week later, iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26.4 where released. Thus for this specific case the issue is effectively moot. However the point of the security update was to get a fix for an issue out to the devices as soon as possible. And hiding the mechanism for installing such fixes is counterproductive.
On small systems, or on VMs with small virtual boot disks, the automatic partitioning will sometimes lead to a /usr partition that is too limited in size. During normal operations this will probably not hurt anything but sysupgrade(8) may complain that there is not enough free space on /usr.
Not surprising for those who follow the OpenBSD mailing lists, on 2025.10.22 OpenBSD 7.8 was released.
As usual the Upgrade instructions work fine and the first impression is good.
I own an old iPad 2 from 2011. It still works, though the battery doesn’t last very long anymore and of course the last available OS for this device is iOS 9.3.5 from 2016. Yes, iOS because iPadOS came later.
I use it occasionally to play some (old) games. And to conserve battery and avoid annoying ads and potential security issues I keep it in airplane mode all the time.
Every few weeks a dialog appears, asking me to verify my Apple ID. (This often causes a crash of the running application. Annoying but otherwise harmless.) I click Cancel and go on using the iPad.
Today something different happened: Without any warning I got a black screen with the Apple logo. This looked like a reboot of the OS to me, though I’m not 100% sure1). When it came back up, it required that I activate the iPad in a fullscreen modal dialog! There didn’t seem to be any way around that.
So I turned off airplane mode, entered my Apple ID credentials and pressed continue a few times until the normal home screen was shown. Then I turned airplane mode on again and everything was normal.
Minor security update to DokuWiki 2024-05-14a "Librarian" has been released (Changelog, Download). No issues so far.
Minor update to DokuWiki 2024-05-14 "Librarian" has been released (Changelog, Download). There are only some minor glitches so far.
And there are still some PHP 8.4 related problems in Plugins remaining as well.
Mostly trouble free update (Changelog, Download). There are only some minor glitches so far.
And there are some PHP 8.4 related problems in Plugins remaining as well.
Not surprising for those who follow the OpenBSD mailing lists, on 2025.04.28 OpenBSD 7.7 was released.
As usual the Upgrade instructions work fine and the first impression is good.
It is possible to use the deSEC IP Update API to update a wildcard subdomain.
This works basically the same as updating a normal subdomain. Just use * (asterisk) as the subdomain name in the hostname parameter, e.g.: *.example.com or *.sub.example.com. See Determine Hostname.