You can read more about Apple’s history of open sourcing here.

Allows addition of a Chinese Trackpad Handwriting button to the Touch Bar Control Strip.

This update: Improves setup and reliability of Auto Unlock. Although the recently released macOS Sierra is the first version to adopt a new name, Apple has maintained the open source tradition with this release. The macOS Sierra 10.12.2 Update improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users. As such, Apple provides download links to the latest versions of these technologies for the open source community to learn and to use.Īpple usually updates its open source Darwin code for public consumption not long after the public release of its latest update to OS X. The lowest layers of macOS, including the kernel, BSD portions, and drivers are based mainly on open source technologies, collectively called Darwin. There, you’ll also find the Open Source Reference Library, developer tools, along with iOS and OS X Server resources. The release builds on a long-standing library of open source code that dates all the way back to OS X 10.0. The code, located on Apple’s open source website, can be accessed via direct link now, although it doesn’t yet appear on the site’s home page. As it has done in the past, Apple has released the open source Darwin code for macOS 10.12 Sierra.

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