macOS Info

Here are some tables of macOS info (compiled from Wikipedia's MacOS and MacOS version history articles).

Mac OS/macOS

Brand Nane	Last Version	Product Name	Darwin Version	First Release	Last Release
Mac OS X	10.0.4	Cheetah	1.3.1	2001-03-24	2001-06-21
Mac OS X	10.1.5	Puma	5.5	2001-09-25	2002-06-05
Mac OS X	10.2.8	Jaguar	6.8	2002-08-24	2003-10-03
Mac OS X	10.3.9	Panther	7.9	2003-10-24	2005-04-15
Mac OS X	10.4.11	Tiger	8.11	2005-04-29	2007-11-14
Mac OS X	10.5.8	Leopard	9.8	2007-10-26	2009-08-05
Mac OS X	10.6.8	Snow Leopard	10.8	2009-08-28	2011-07-25
Mac OS X	10.7.5	Lion	11.4.2	2011-07-20	2012-10-04
OS X	10.8.5	Mountain Lion	12.5	2012-07-25	2013-10-03
OS X	10.9.5	Mavericks	13.4	2013-10-22	2014-09-17
OS X	10.10.5	Yosemite	14.5	2014-10-16	2017-07-19
OS X	10.11.6	El Capitan	15.6	2015-09-30	2018-07-09
macOS	10.12.6	Sierra	16.7	2016-09-20	2019-09-26
macOS	10.13.6	High Sierra	17.7	2017-09-25	2020-11-12
macOS	10.14.6	Mojave	18.7	2018-09-24	2021-07-21
macOS	10.15.7	Catlina	19.6	2019-10-07	tbd
macOS	11.6.8	Big Sur	20.6	2020-11-12	tbd
macOS	12.5	Monterey	21.6	2021-10-25	tbd
macOS	13	Ventura	22	tbd	tbd

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Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.0	4K78	March 24, 2001	1.3.1
10.0.1	4L13	April 14, 2001	1.3.1
10.0.2	4P12	May 1, 2001	1.3.1
10.0.3	4P13	May 9, 2001	1.3.1
10.0.4	4Q12	June 21, 2001	1.3.1

Major features

First major Mac OS X release. Desktop and server version. A brand new code base completely separate from Mac OS 9. Unix core.

User features

• Mail
• Address Book
• TextEdit
• Dock
• AppleScript
• Sherlock desktop and web search engine

Developer features

• Classic Environment to run Mac OS 9
• Aqua UI
• PDF support built-in
• OpenGL support built-in
• Carbon and Cocoa API's

Unix features

• Terminal
• Mach Kernel
• Preemptive Multitasking
• Protected Memory

Removals and Limitations

• No SMB support
• Only AFP over TCP/IP
• No DVD Playback
• No CD burning
• Server only supported AFP over TCP/IP, HTTP, SSH, and FTP

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Mac OS X 10.1 Puma

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.1	5G64	September 25, 2001	1.4.1
10.1.1	5M28	November 12, 2001	5.1
10.1.2	5P48	December 21, 2001	5.2
10.1.3	5Q45	February 19, 2002	5.3
10.1.4	5Q125	April 17, 2002	5.4
10.1.5	5S60	June 5, 2002	5.5

Major features

• CD and DVD burning in Finder and iTunes
• DVD Player
• 200 printers supported
• Improved AppleScript
• ColorSync 4.0
• Image Capture
• Menu Extras

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Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.2	6C115	August 24, 2002	6.0
	6C115a
10.2.1	6D52	September 18, 2002	6.1
10.2.2	6F21	November 11, 2002	6.2
10.2.3	6G30	December 19, 2002	6.3
	6G37
	6G50
10.2.4	6I32	February 13, 2003	6.4
10.2.5	6L29	April 10, 2003	6.5
10.2.6	6L60	May 6, 2003	6.6
10.2.7	6R65	September 22, 2003	6.7
10.2.8	6R73	October 3, 2003	6.8
	6S90

Major features

• MPEG-4 support in QuickTime
• Address Book rewritten
• Inkwell handwriting recognition
• Zeroconf Rendezvous/Bonjour
• HFS+ journaling in 10.2.2 Server
• Quartz Extreme
• Universal Access
• Sherlock 3
• Switched to CUPS
• SMB suport
• Happy Mac boot face replaced with Apple logo

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Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.3	7B85	October 24, 2003	7.0
	7B86
10.3.1	7C107	November 10, 2003	7.1
10.3.2	7D24	December 17, 2003	7.2
	7D28
10.3.3	7F44	March 15, 2004	7.3
10.3.4	7H63	May 26, 2004	7.4
10.3.5	7M34	August 9, 2004	7.5
10.3.6	7R28	November 5, 2004	7.6
10.3.7	7S215	December 15, 2004	7.7
10.3.8	7U16	February 9, 2005	7.8
10.3.9	7W98	April 15, 2005	7.9

Major features

• Brushed-metal interface
• Finder search engine
• Finder sidebar
• Finder secure delete
• Finder colored labels (was in classic Mac OS)
• Finder Zip support built-in
• Finder icon changed
• Fast user switching
• Exposé
• Safari introduced
• Font Book introduced
• TextEdit opens .doc files
• FileVault home folder encryption
• iChat AV
• X11 built-in
• gcc 3.3
• Built-in fax support
• Active Directory integration
• Beige G3's no longer supported

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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.4	8A428	April 29, 2005	8.0
	8A432
10.4.1	8B15	May 16, 2005	8.1
	8B17	May 19, 2005
10.4.2	8C46	July 12, 2005	8.2
	8C47
	8E102	October 12, 2005
	8E45	October 19, 2005
	8E90
10.4.3	8F46	October 31, 2005	8.3
10.4.4	8G32	January 10, 2006	8.4
	8G1165
10.4.5	8H14	February 14, 2006	8.5
	8G1454
10.4.6	8I127	April 3, 2006	8.6
	8I1119
10.4.7	8J135	June 27, 2006	8.7
	8J2135a
	8K1079	August 7, 2006
	8N5107
10.4.8	8L127	September 29, 2006	8.8
	8L2127
10.4.9	8P135	March 13, 2007	8.9
	8P2137
10.4.10	8R218	June 20, 2007	8.10
	8R2218
	8R2232
10.4.11	8S165	November 14, 2007	8.11
	8S2167

Major features

• Spotlight introduced
• New Safari
• Updated Mail
• Automator
• VoiceOver
• Dictionary built-in
• iSync replaced with .Mac Pref Pane
• QuickTime 7 (H.264/AVC)
• Dashboard
• Unified theme
• 64-bit on Power Mac G5's
• Intel support (10.4.4+)
• Rosetta (10.4.4+)
• Xcode 2.0
• Grapher introduced
• Quartz Composer introduced
• Zoom screen magnifier
• launchd replaces init
• cp, mv, rsync support resource forks
• Print to PDF
• Core Image
• Core Data
• Core Video
• Core Audio
• Xgrid

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.5	9A581	October 26, 2007	9.0
10.5.1	9B18	November 15, 2007	9.1
10.5.2	9C31	February 11, 2008	9.2
	9C7010
10.5.3	9D34	May 28, 2008	9.3
10.5.4	9E17	June 30, 2008	9.4
10.5.5	9F33	September 15, 2008	9.5
10.5.6	9G55	December 15, 2008	9.6
	9G66	January 6, 2009
10.5.7	9J61	May 12, 2009	9.7
10.5.8	9L30	August 5, 2009	9.8

Major features

• Intel and PowerPC support
• Classic support dropped
• Time Machine
• Front Row and Photo Boot included in OS (rather than only on some machines)
• Release was delayed from "end of 2006..." to end of 2007 because of iPhone
• Back to My Mac
• Boot Camp (XP or Vista support)
• Finder sidebar imitates iTunes sidebar
• Quick Look
• Safari 3
• Spaces
• Spotlight boolean operators and search other computers
• Libraries & Frameworks complied for 64-bit
• Objective-C 2.0 (garbage collection)
• Xcode 3.0
• Core Animation
• DTrace (& Instruments app)
• Python and Ruby Cocoa scripting bridge
• Ruby on Rails included
• OpenGl 2.1
• FSEvents framework
• Read-only ZFS support
• Intel version is UNIX certified
• J2SE 5.0 included
• Library Randomization
• Application layer firewall
• Sandbox
• Application signing
• Guest Account

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.6	10A432	August 28, 2009	10.0
	10A433
10.6.1	10B504	September 10, 2009	10.1
10.6.2	10C540	November 9, 2009	10.2
10.6.3	10D573	March 29, 2010	10.3
	10D575	April 1, 2010
	10D578	April 13, 2010
10.6.4	10F569	June 15, 2010	10.4
10.6.5	10H574	November 10, 2010	10.5
10.6.6	10J567	January 6, 2011	10.6
10.6.7	10J869	March 21, 2011	10.7
	10J3250	March 21, 2011
	10J4138	May 4, 2011
10.6.8	10K540	June 23, 2011	10.8
	10K549	July 25, 2011

Major features

• "Zero new features" marketing
• Almost everything runs as 64-bit (there is a 32-bit mode)
• Intel only (Rosetta still included to run Carbon PPC applications)
• Finder rewritten in Cocoa
• QuickTime X rewritten in Cocoa, Core Audio, Core Video, and Core Animation
• Safari 4 uses separate processes for each page
• Mac App Store introduced (10.6.6)
• Boot Camp allows Windows partitions to read HFS+
• Smaller OS
• Most printer drivers not included by default but must be downloaded
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 support in Mail, Address Book, and iCal
• Multi-touch trackpad
• AppleTalk removed
• Grand Central Dispatch
• OpenCL
• MRT included (Malware removal tool)

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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.7	11A511	July 20, 2011	11.0
	11A511s	August 16, 2011
	11A2061	July 20, 2011	11.0.2
	11A2063
10.7.1	11B26	August 16, 2011	11.1.0
	11B2118
10.7.2	11C74	October 12, 2011	11.2
10.7.3	11D50	February 1, 2012	11.3
10.7.4	11E53	May 9, 2012	11.4
10.7.5	11G56	September 19, 2012	11.4.2
	11G63	October 4, 2012

Major features

This is the last Mac OS overseen by Bertrand Serlet. Craig Federighi is the new vice president of Mac Software Engineering.

Many of the new features change past behavior and can't be reversed.

iOS-ification begins

• Redesigned Aqua
• Mail, iCal, Address Book changed to look like iOS versions
• Full-screen apps
• Auto-correct changes
• Auto-Save
• Resume
• Apple Push Notification Service (APNS)
• Emoji support
• LaunchPad
• Mac App Store
• Multi-touch trackpad support
• "Natural" scrolling direction reversed
• Scrolling bounces at the end
• Many new animations (slowing everything down, hurting power users)

Other features

• AirDrop
• Address space layout randomization (ASLR)
• FileVault 2 (full disk encryption, external disk encryption support)
• TRIM support on SSD's
• VNC now allows login in addition to look at the logged in user
• Recovery Partition
• Resize windows from any edge or corner
• Scrollbar arrows removed

Dropped features

• Save As
• Front Row
• Rosetta
• Adobe Flash Player and Java no longer included
• iSync
• Remote install Mac OS X
• Post-install welcome video
• Mac OS X Server converted from a separate OS into a downloadable app

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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.8	12A269	July 25, 2012	12.0
10.8.1	12B19	August 23, 2012	12.1
10.8.2	12C54	September 19, 2012	12.2
	12C60	October 4, 2012
	12C2034	October 23, 2012
	12C3104	November 29, 2012
10.8.3	12D78	March 14, 2013	12.3
10.8.4	12E55	June 4, 2013	12.4
	12E3067	June 10, 2013
	12E4022	September 25, 2013
10.8.5	12F37	September 12, 2013	12.5
	12F45	October 3, 2013

Major features

iOS-ification continues

• Game Center
• iCloud saving now system-wide
• Notes and Reminders separated from Mail and Calendar
• iChat replaced with Messages
• Notification Center
• Gatekeeper
• Share Sheets
• Address Book renamed Contacts
• iCal renamed Calendar

Other features

• AirPlay Mirroring
• Dictation
• Power Nap
• Rename documents form the title bar
• Scroll bars widen when moused over

Dropped features

• MobileMe replaced with iCloud
• RSS
• Software Update moved to Mac App Store
• Web Sharing Pref Pane removed
• X11 is replaced with prompt to download XQuartz
• Xgrid
• Display Preferences menu replaced by AirPlay menu

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OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.9	13A603	October 22, 2013	13.0
10.9.1	13B42	December 16, 2013	13.0
10.9.2	13C64	February 25, 2014	13.1
10.9.3	13D65	May 15, 2014	13.2
10.9.4	13E28	June 30, 2014	13.3.0
10.9.5	13F34	September 17, 2014	13.4.0

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OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Version	Build	Release	Darwin Version
10.10	14A389	October 16, 2014	14.0
10.10.1	14B25	November 17, 2014	14.0
10.10.2	14C106a	Preview only	14.1

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OS X 10.11 El Capitan

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macOS 10.12 Sierra

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macOS 10.13 High Sierra

Around this time some new Macs didn't have the startup sound.

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macOS 10.14 Mojave

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macOS 10.15 Catlina

Major features

• San Francisco font

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macOS 11 Big Sur

Major features

• "Biggest" UI change since Mac OS X 10.0
• All standard apps are redesigned with new icons like iOS/iPadOS
• New sounds
• Control Center
• Notification Center redesigned
• Apple Silicon support
• iOS and iPadOS application support on Apple Silicon Macs
• Time Machine is APFS now (when reformatted)
• System volume is signed
• File level encryption (Apple Silicon only?)
• macOS startup sound is enabled by default
• Safari 14 (support for WebP, 4K video, Flash Player death)
• Messages is a Catalyst app and absolutely sucks
• Network Utility has been deprecated

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macOS 12 Monterey

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macOS 13 Ventura

Published: 2015-01-22, last edited: 2022-08-03

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