kernelopen-sourcexnu

Why is the XNU revision different from the `uname -a` output?


On apple's website, MacOS 12.5.1 is shipped with XNU kernel 8020.140.41

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But from uname -a I got root:xnu-8020.240.7~1

Darwin devnull 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: xxxx; root:xnu-8020.240.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 i386 xxx Darwin

So the kernel version differs from the website, did I miss anything?


Solution

  • The open source code release is for macOS 12.5, whereas you're looking at 12.5.1, which is a revision release with security patches. Apple typically doesn't offer source code for such revisions, unfortunately.