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   macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update Fixes Early Bugs

   Adam C. Engst

   We always recommend delaying major macOS upgrades until Apple has had a
   chance to fix early bugs. The company has taken its first swing at the
   most egregious problems in macOS 10.13 High Sierra, not with the
   10.13.1 update that we had expected, but with the 'macOS High Sierra
   10.13 Supplemental Update.' It's highly focused, providing fixes for
   five specific problems:
   [1][tn_High-Sierra-Supplemental-Update.jpg]
     * It improves the robustness of the installer, which we hope will
       address reported issues with installations failing to complete.
     * It fixes a bug that caused the cursor in Adobe InDesign to look
       like a pixelated box. Unfortunately, Apple said nothing about
       [2]problems that users of Adobe Illustrator are having with APFS '
       that may have to wait for 10.13.1 or an Illustrator update.
     * It eliminates a problem that prevented the user from deleting email
       messages from Yahoo accounts in Mail.
     * It fixes [3]an embarrassing mistake in Disk Utility ' it turns out
       that if you set a hint in Disk Utility when creating an encrypted
       APFS volume, the password was stored as the hint, making it
       trivially easy to decrypt the volume. Oops!
     * It requires the user password when prompting for keychain access,
       which should prevent malicious applications from extracting
       passwords from the system keychain by bypassing the keychain access
       prompt with a synthetic click.

   macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update was 915 MB on my Retina
   iMac, and you can get it in the Updates screen of the App Store app.

   Apple says that it has already built these fixes into new downloads of
   High Sierra, so if you haven't yet updated, you won't need the macOS
   High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update. But if you have already upgraded
   to High Sierra, we recommend installing this one sooner rather than
   later.

References

   1. http://tidbits.com/resources/2017-10/High-Sierra-Supplemental-Update.png
   2. https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/29/adobe-illustrator-indesign-macos-high-sierra/
   3. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208165

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