{"id":9565,"date":"2020-02-06T11:23:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=e957968d9511bd59007d92a466b674f1"},"modified":"2020-02-06T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:23:30","slug":"deprecated-kernel-extensions-and-system-extension-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9565","title":{"rendered":"Deprecated kernel extensions and system extension alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/131314\/deprecated-kernel-extensions-and-system-extension-alternatives\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: For most software, preventing kernel space tampering is almost certainly the right decision, but this seems like a problem for virtualization on OS X hosts (_is_ there even an apple-blessed solution?), and also performant device drivers.<\/div><p>Just another heads up that kernel extensions on macOS will soon stop working. This has been known for a while, but you might not even know you&rsquo;re using kernel extensions in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>System extensions on macOS Catalina (10.15) allow software like network extensions and endpoint security solutions to extend the functionality of macOS without requiring kernel-level access. At WWDC19, we announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/kernel-extensions\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deprecation of kernel extensions<\/a> as part of our ongoing effort to modernize the platform, improve security and reliability, and enable more user-friendly distribution methods. Kernel programming interfaces (KPIs) will be deprecated as alternatives become available, and future OS releases will no longer load kernel extensions that use deprecated KPIs by default.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you use macOS, run <code>kextstat | grep -v com.apple<\/code> to see how many third party kernel extensions you have running. Things like VirtualBox, controller support for Steam, DropBox, Little Snitch, and more all come with kernel extensions, so there&rsquo;s definitely chances you might be running some without even realising it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another heads up that kernel extensions on macOS will soon stop working. This has been known f&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}