It's been popping up for me daily or so for about the last week. Hitting "X" makes it go away without installing. Still on Ventura on my 2019 27" Intel iMac. (Maybe Intel/Apple Silicon is the bug? Already updated 2023 MBP to Sonoma, can't easily test.)
1. Automatic updates set to "on" (because automatic updates only installs point releases, not major revisions).
2. "Updates are going to be installed tonight. Install now?", or words to that affect. That's the usual message for point release/bug fix releases. Oddly, when I click "Details", there is no point release and just the Sonoma upgrade. This seems to be a bug, IMO. The "upgrade to $LATEST!" should be a different dialog with different wording.
3. System Settings still shows "software update available", with the red "1" badge, when Sonoma is the only update. This seems to be a bug as well.
IMO, some state-dependent $THING got hosed, and now things are just a little off on my machine. this manifests as an unwanted OS upgrade for some, and just general "that's not...the way it used to work" others like myself but no forced upgrade.
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It's been popping up for me daily or so for about the last week. Hitting "X" makes it go away without installing. Still on Ventura on my 2019 27" Intel iMac. (Maybe Intel/Apple Silicon is the bug? Already updated 2023 MBP to Sonoma, can't easily test.)
1. Automatic updates set to "on" (because automatic updates only installs point releases, not major revisions).
2. "Updates are going to be installed tonight. Install now?", or words to that affect. That's the usual message for point release/bug fix releases. Oddly, when I click "Details", there is no point release and just the Sonoma upgrade. This seems to be a bug, IMO. The "upgrade to $LATEST!" should be a different dialog with different wording.
3. System Settings still shows "software update available", with the red "1" badge, when Sonoma is the only update. This seems to be a bug as well.
IMO, some state-dependent $THING got hosed, and now things are just a little off on my machine. this manifests as an unwanted OS upgrade for some, and just general "that's not...the way it used to work" others like myself but no forced upgrade.