Macjutsu/super v5.1.0 on GitHub

2026-06-24

Highlights (5.1.x)

Support for macOS 26 Tahoe.
New ability to target specific macOS versions (ex. 15.6.1) for both minor updates and major upgrades.
Completely rearchitected super preferences mechanism allows for advanced alternate configuration workflows. In other words, you can now create multiple different super workflow configurations and activate them on an as-needed basis.
Significantly improved macOS minor update workflow is fully compatible on systems with all built-in automatic software update options enabled.
New scheduling options for automatic deferrals when provisioning new systems and when you want to delay the start of a workflow after zero day.
New workflow options for installing non-system software updates.
Significant quality of life improvements for gathering information about the super workflow configuration, including a new --config-status option and two new logs: super-audit.log and super-metrics.log.

Support for macOS 15 Sequoia.
New scheduled installation workflows allow administrators or the end user to specify a date and time for the installation of macOS updates/upgrades, Jamf Pro Policies, or enforced system restarts.
New schedule workflow active option allows administrators to set exactly when the super workflow is active, thus allowing for "maintenance windows".
MacAdmin's SOFA integration allows schedule and deadline options to align with macOS release dates (as opposed to when super discovers a macOS release).
Completely rearchitected main super logic so all workflow options can be permanent (via configuration profile) or temporary until the requested workflow is completed.
Completely rearchitected software update/upgrade discovery to significantly improve reliability, performance, and improve support for native macOS software update restrictions deferral.
Significantly improved behavior for alternate workflow targets (non-system updates, Jamf Pro Policies, and enforced system restarts) now support all deferral, schedule, deadline, and display options.
Even more user interface customization options.
Please visit the super Wiki for full details!

super 5.1.x requires macOS 11 or newer.
Many super 4.x command line options and managed preferences are NOT compatible with super 5.1.x
Most super 3.0 command line options and managed preferences are not compatible with super 5.1.x
Previously saved super 3.0 and 4.x Apple silicon authentication credentials are automatically migrated the first time super 5.1.x runs.
Refer to this spreadsheet (tab separated values) for migrating super command line options.
Refer to this spreadsheet (tab separated values) for migrating super managed preferences.
Updated example MDM configuration profiles.
Updated Jamf Pro External Application Custom Schema.
Updated Jamf Pro Extension Attribute scripts.

The super workflow does not currently support Declarative Device Management (DDM) software update settings. You should continue to use traditional MDM configuration profiles to enforce software update settings.
There are currently no publicly available Background Security Improvement (BSI, formerly named Rapid Security Response) updates for any version of macOS. As such, production BSI update workflows have not been validated against this version of super.
The Jamf Pro "new" Managed Software Updates feature remains unreliable if the workflow target is not the latest minor update or major upgrade. In the meantime, the legacy Jamf Pro software update API remains stable (although deprecated) and local authentication is always the most reliable.

Note this sub-section only covers specific changes for 5.1.0-rc6 to 5.1.0. Please refer to other sections of the CHANGELOG for the full rundown of all the 5.1.0 changes.
Main super Wiki significantly updated for version 5.1.x!
All new example screenshots (also moved into their own folder) for version 5.1.x!
All external super documentation (like the Wiki and this CHANGELOG file) ran through Apple Writing Tools Proofread function.
Resolved a deferral timer logic issue. (Thanks to @ir77io for catching this one!)
As always, internal typo fixes and improvements to both regular and verbose log output.
super 5.1.0-rc5 SHA-256: db823707b7e3cff004afbbc5ca3430040b77a30a76d497beb66317f804b99afe