munki/munki v6.1.0b1

Munki 6.1.0 beta 1

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This is the first beta release of Munki 6.1, which contains new features as well as bug fixes to the Munki tools.

New features

• Munki will now ignore and not display "Major OS Upgrades" offered by Apple's softwareupdate (these are new to Monterey 12.3 and later: softwareupdate may show Ventura as an available update). In Munki's preferences, set AppleSoftwareUpdatesIncludeMajorOSUpdates to true to override this behavior.
• default_installs: this is a new key valid in manifests. Items here will be installed by default and added to the local SelfServeManifest. Users can then remove them if they wish. These items must also be valid optional_installs. More documentation on this feature here: https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Default-Installs

Bug fixes and general improvements

• Improved exception handling in munkiimport: 1f0dec6 and 929a7e9
• Improvements when running startosinstall: 51cad91
• Better handling of Apple software updates that are marked as "Deferred": dc7c9ee
• munkiimport/makepkginfo can now extract version info from a distribution-style package's Distribution file if present: 21a6a4d

Complete list of changes from v6.0.1 here: v6.0.1...v6.1.0b1

Build info

The GUI apps and the Python framework were built under Xcode 14.2 on macOS 13.1. Other versions of Xcode have not been tested and may cause different results.

Package versioning

• metapackage version: 6.1.0.4533
• munki core tools version: 6.1.0.4533
• LaunchAgents/LaunchDaemons version: 3.0.3265
• Apps package version: 6.1.0.4528
• Python package version: 3.9.13.4518

Attachment info

munkitools-6.1.0.4533.pkg is a package that should install without requiring a restart unless upgrading from an extremely old Munki tools (like one of the 3.x releases or earlier). It should be suitable for most initial deployment scenarios, including those driven by DEP/ADE. It does not include a component to trigger "bootstrapping" or any other automatic run of the tools after installation.