Just one week after rolling out the first Release Candidates of macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2, Apple has made the second RCs available for testing. The updates arrive while Apple also tests macOS 27.2 ahead of its official release in the coming weeks.
Notably, Apple is rolling out the second release candidates without having released regular beta versions first. So far, the release notes for both updates mention only the usual "important security fixes," without offering any additional details about the vulnerabilities being addressed. Apple typically publishes more information about those fixes once the updates are officially released, although those details sometimes take a few additional days to become available.
For developers and testers, the build numbers identify the new versions: macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 RC 2 is build 24H225, while macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 RC 2 is build 25G325. Readers who spot anything new or different in today's RCs are invited to share their observations in the comments.
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