[macOS] Munki 3.0 released

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This is the official release of Munki 3.0, a major update to the Munki tools. This is the same build as Beta 10 and Release Candidate 1.

 

Read more about Munki 3 here: https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Munki-3-Information

 

Munki 3 is considered stable and suitable for production use, but you may want to roll it out in stages.

 

New features/changes information:

 

• "Native" support for macOS installation applications (Like "Install macOS Sierra.app").
   
   
  
• Support for authorized restarts.
  This requires some launchd changes that will require a restart when upgrading from Munki 2.x to 3.x.
   
   
  
• Notification Manager notification support.
  This requires some launchd changes that will require a restart when upgrading from Munki 2.x to 3.x.
   
   
  
• Repo plugin support contributed by Centrify.
  Allows the creation of plugins to enable the Munki command-line tools to work with cloud-based repos, or repos not available via traditional file paths, or to add additional capabilities/actions when working with a file-based repo.
  There are a couple of sample/demonstration plugins included: a GitFileRepo plugin for better integration with Git repos, and a MWA2APIPlugin as an example of working with a repo that doesn't have direct filesystem access.
   
   
  
• Auto-removal of optionally-installed applications that have not been used in an admin-specified time period.
   
   
  
• Support for a new "Featured" pseudo-category to be used with Managed Software Center. Items can be added to a list of "featured_items" in a manifest. If there are optional installs that are also in the list of "featured_items", the display of All optional installs in MSC app will be replaced by a display of Featured items.
   
   
  
• Support for allowing the install of packages signed with untrusted or expired certificates.
   
   
  
• Change in behavior for 'application' items in lists of installs: if such an item includes a value for 'path', only that path will be compared against. If 'path' does not exist and CFBundleName or CFBundleIdentifier do exist, Munki will consider locally-installed applications that have matching CFBundleName or CFBundleIdentifier for comparison.
  

See https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Munki-3-Information#munki-3-new-features for more information on the new features.

 

Removed in Munki 3:

 

• Support for 10.6 and 10.7.