Deprecate the Kernel Extension #663

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1. tnek

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2. russellhancox commented on Nov 5, 2021

   

   russellhancox

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   I'd like for us to give time to users to provide feedback before we go ahead with this. While it's quite likely there are no remaining users of the kernel extension, not every organization upgrades macOS as promptly as {we do, they should} for various reasons.

   We can post an announcement and RFC on the santa-dev group, a discussion on GitHub and possibly a notice to the MacAdmins slack #santa channel
3. russellhancox

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4. arubdesu commented on Nov 7, 2021

   

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   I see the persuasive case being made there's process improvements that would come from being able to focus on the one officially supported low-level hook mechanism, since it currently isn't a choice Santa allows you to make on a recent OS. Is this just as simple as telling people on old OS versions to please continue using the releases prior to a specific tag? Munki has found that an easy-enough way to remove support for older OS versions without too much disruption that I can recall noticing.
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6. tnek

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7. tnek

   added this to the 2022.1 Release milestone on Nov 16, 2021