![]() The largest software companies in the world, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, all had to fix issues caused by this problem. Long story short, this led to services and apps across the internet ceasing to work, particularly on older operating systems. ![]() You may have heard about the problems caused by the Let’s Encrypt’s root certificate expiring on September 30th. You can imagine how difficult that makes it for small software creators like ourselves to keep our compatibility promises. 10.14 Mojave hasn’t received any updates at all since July. Right now, this means 10.15 Catalina and 11 Big Sur. To paraphrase our friend Marc, “developing software means making promises that rely on promises other software developers made to you.” The fact is that Apple typically only supports the most recent two of their own macOS versions, even when it comes to critical security updates. However, the limitations of supporting this large number of OS versions came into sharp focus in the past couple of weeks. The oldest version we’ve been supporting, macOS 10.9, can run on hardware made in 2007 (before Barack Obama was even elected!). ![]() For instance, this year we kept Lumen running with nine different OS versions, including the upcoming macOS 12 Monterey. That’s why we have always tried to make Lumen compatible with as many computers as is technically possible. Sustainability in computing is important to us. ![]()
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