So I guess the interesting thing here is that if you visit <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fen-us%2FHT208331" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...</a> you'll see that yesterday's version of this document claimed that the fix for CVE-2017-5754 was "Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, OS X El Capitan 10.11.6" (search for "2018" to find "Entry added January 4, 2018").<p>Now it just says "Available for: macOS High Sierra 10.13.1". (search for "2018" to find "Entry updated January 5, 2018")
As a comparison:<p>- Apple was warned about this half-a-year-ago and cannot give certainty that their previously current OS is patched (High Sierra only was announced on June, about the same time they were warned about Meltdown)<p>- DragonflyBSD, arguably the underdog of the BSD's was not warned about the bug, like apparently all the other BSD's, and now have commited the patch to their current OS version <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/313758.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/3...</a><p>Apple needs to step up their game.
Thanks for this update; Apple has changed the text since yesterday. I pasted the original text just 18 hours ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076658" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076658</a> .
We've updated the title from “Apple retracts confirmation that Meltdown is fixed in 10.12 and 10.11”, which is the sort of thing that makes a fine initial comment but not what the guidelines ask for headlines.