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Upgrade to future macOS major releases

Upgrade to future macOS major releases

  

macOS Golden Gate will be released on September 14th, 2026

(https://www.apple.com/os/macos/)

The EPM team has deployed a Deferral payload to all machines to stop macOS from prompting end users to upgrade their machines for 90 days. This payload was intended to 

 

For Sites that would like to implement their own deferral payload for macOS updates please see this article from Jamf on how to enable that - https://learn.jamf.com/en-US/bundle/technical-paper-deploying-macos-upgrades-current/page/Deferring_maOS_Software_Upgrades_and_Updates.html

 

For admins, or any other parties that would like to upgrade to macOS Golden Gate for testing, or any other reason we have enabled an Extension Attribute in Jamf Pro to allow a machine to upgrade to macOS Golden Gate now.

 

Within Jamf Pro navigate to the machine you would like to upgrade on. Within the "Operating System" tab on the left you will see the new Extension Attribute for "Allow macOS upgrade (Golden Gate)"

-By default this value is blank. Editing the inventory record and changing this status to "YES" will exclude this machine from the restriction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once the machine has been set to "YES" you can upgrade the machine using any method to macOS Golden Gate.

 

 

 

 

*** Please note this process will work for macOS 26, but will not continue to work for future macOS releases. I new process based on Apples Declarative device management and Jamf Blue Prints will be used going forward ***

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