Critical Updates

Critical Updates keeps you informed of when a background update of the listed components occurs. These are controlled by the command-line softwareupdate tool and by App Store preference settings in System Preferences.

Critical Updates refreshes the Components table on launch, and about once every 60 minutes, if left running; it polls the App Store for security updates on launch, and about once every 10 seconds while running. Critical Updates has a very low energy and resource footprint, and can be left running with virtually no impact on system resources.

Features

• Newly-updated components are colored red in the table
• An alert appears in the window when a security update needs to be installed manually
• Click the yellow warning triangle next to the alert message text to open the App Store
• Click the ‘x’ button to hide the alert message
• Double-click any component’s name to reveal it in the Finder
• Click the App Store icon in the window to immediately open the App Store preference settings

• New: View menu > XProtect (Cmd-X) opens a window that details the items blocked by XProtect.
• New: An alert is presented when items are added or removed from XProtect. New items are marked in the XProtect window (available from the View menu or via the keyboard shortcut Cmd-X).