munki/munki v6.4.2

Munki 6.4.2 Official Release

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This is the official release of Munki 6.4.2: a bug-fix and minor feature release of the Munki tools.

Changes

• New IgnoreMiddleware preference to ignore middleware by @patgmac in #1194. Useful if you are transitioning to/away from using middleware: you can turn it off (and possibly back on) without having to uninstall/reinstall the actual middleware.

Fixes

• The new board-id and device-id conditional facts introduced in Munki 6.4 have been renamed board_id and device_id, respectively. It turns out the previous names are illegal in NSPredicate expressions and caused a client run to be terminated unexpectedly if used in conditional_items or installable_condition. Thanks to @mattydee99 for reporting this issue. (8edfc6a)
• Handling of predicate expressions is now more careful to prevent a bad predicate from causing an unexpected termination. (dd74af6)

A complete list of changes from the 6.4.0 release is here: v6.4.1...v6.4.2

Build info

The GUI apps and the Python framework were built under Xcode 15.1 on macOS 14.3. Xcode 14.3.1 on macOS 13 should work as well. Other versions of Xcode have not been tested and may cause different results. (Due to Apple bugs, Xcode 15.0.1 or Xcode 15 on macOS Sonoma will result in GUI apps that won't run on macOS < 10.15).

Package versioning

• Distribution package version: 6.4.2.4634
• munki core tools version: 6.4.2.4634
• LaunchAgents/LaunchDaemons version: 3.0.3265
• Apps package version: 6.4.0.4628
• Python package version: 3.10.11.4623

Attachment info

The munkitools-6.4.2.4634.pkg attachment available here is an unsigned and unnotarized 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 (if you first sign the package). It does not include a component to trigger "bootstrapping" or any other automatic run of the tools after installation.

Signed/notarized builds

Thanks to the efforts of @erikng and @natewalck, signed and notarized builds of Munki tools packages are available at https://github.com/macadmins/munki-builds/releases. There may be a delay for new releases -- please be patient.