The Imaginative and prescient Professional hasn’t even gotten into the fingers of anybody aside from early reviewers but, and it appears that evidently Apple already has a serious software program replace within the works for its new spatial computing headset.
Whereas particulars are extraordinarily sparse, the parents at AppleInsider had been tipped off to the brand new model by an nameless developer who seen “visionOS 2.0.0” references of their back-end server logs.
The references would have come from gadgets working visionOS 2.0 that had been working the app belonging to the developer in query. The particular purpose these could have proven up is unclear, however they’re nearly definitely a results of Apple staff testing the brand new visionOS launch contained in the partitions of Apple Park.
It’s potential that is getting used to evaluate third-party visionOS apps earlier than including to the Imaginative and prescient Professional App Retailer, however that appears unlikely because the App Retailer evaluate workforce would wish to examine these apps towards the launched model of visionOS that’s really going to be on everybody’s headset. In spite of everything, it’s extremely unlikely we’ll see a visionOS 2.0 launch arrive tomorrow.
Likely, visionOS 2.0 is being developed to be showcased at this yr’s Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC), which is now solely a bit over 4 months away. It tracks that Apple would wish to have that within the “alpha” levels of growth already if it plans to launch a developer beta in June.
Some visionOS 1.0 Updates, Too
As an alternative, it appears Apple already has a visionOS 1.0.2 replace ready within the wings to land on the brand new headsets after keen early adopters begin setting them up tomorrow. This was first found and shared on X by Nicolás Álvarez, self-proclaimed “git repository surgeon,” and later confirmed with an entry on Apple’s safety releases web page.
Particularly, Apple says visionOS 1.0.2 fixes a WebKit safety vulnerability that will have led to arbitrary code execution. That’s probably the one noteworthy change within the new launch, as sub-point releases sometimes solely present safety and bug fixes.
A few week in the past, Apple additionally pushed out a visionOS 1.0.1 replace for builders and early reviewers, which the corporate says additionally included the identical safety repair for builders. Nonetheless, the Imaginative and prescient Professional models that folk might be unwrapping tomorrow will nonetheless embrace visionOS 1.0.0 and be instantly up to date to visionOS 1.0.2. Presumably, the 1.0.1 launch was an interim one for builders, and Apple nonetheless had some sprucing to do.
The visionOS 1.0.2 launch has a construct variety of 21N323, which is a small however noticeable increment from visionOS 1.0.1’s construct 21N311 — and positively a extra important soar than this week’s re-released iOS 17.4 beta, the place just one letter modified, going from 21E5184i to 21E5184k. For comparability, the ultimate visionOS 1.0 beta had a construct variety of 21N305. This means a couple of extra issues have modified in visionOS 1.0.2, however they’re nonetheless probably simply minor fixes and housekeeping modifications.
The underside line is that when you’re anticipating to have a Imaginative and prescient Professional in your fingers tomorrow, you’ll wish to be sure to examine for the newest software program replace to make sure that you’re protected towards any potential vulnerabilities and that there are not any different creeping bugs — one thing that’s at all times a priority for a bleeding-edge machine corresponding to this.