Is this something I should be concerned about NOW or worry about down the road. Don't even know what extension it is.

With my most recent update I'm told there is an extension that may not be good in future updates. Don't know what extension or who the independent provider is. Should I be concerned at this point? How do I find out what this extension does?


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jun 11, 2020 8:26 AM

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Posted on Jun 11, 2020 8:52 AM

The next major release of macOS will not allow third party kernel extensions. It's just warning that any third party software you're using that installs such extensions will not work in 10.16.


All vendors who now user kernel extensions will have to use a different method to load items at startup.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210999


The message should have mentioned the name of the vendor the extension is from. But in short, all third party extensions are in the following location, along with a bunch of default ones installed with the OS.


/Library/Extensions


For now, you don't need to do anything.

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Jun 11, 2020 8:52 AM in response to 1077c

The next major release of macOS will not allow third party kernel extensions. It's just warning that any third party software you're using that installs such extensions will not work in 10.16.


All vendors who now user kernel extensions will have to use a different method to load items at startup.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210999


The message should have mentioned the name of the vendor the extension is from. But in short, all third party extensions are in the following location, along with a bunch of default ones installed with the OS.


/Library/Extensions


For now, you don't need to do anything.

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Is this something I should be concerned about NOW or worry about down the road. Don't even know what extension it is.

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