{"id":47800,"date":"2020-09-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=47800"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T18:36:44","slug":"macos-big-sur-mdm-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/macos-big-sur-mdm-required","title":{"rendered":"The Breaking Change in macOS Big Sur: an MDM is Now Required"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
macOS\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> Big Sur is the first major OS release from Apple\u00ae<\/sup><\/strong> since Y2K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n macOS Big Sur\u2019s release will be the first time since the year 2000 that Apple is incrementing a major version number of macOS, jumping from macOS Catalina version 10.15 to macOS Big Sur version 11. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on the semantic versioning scheme, which is a broadly accepted simple set of rules and requirements that define how software version numbers are assigned and incremented, a major version update must<\/em> be incremented if any backwards-incompatible changes are introduced in the release. <\/p>\n\n\n