So today Apple goes live with MacOS 10.14.5 which brings quite a few note worthy changes to MacOs Mojave that are quite significant for many users on here

So what's new?

• Introduction of iMac19,1 and iMac19,2 SMBIOS for systems running Coffeelake based systems
• Native support for Radeon VII(including fan profiles)
• Native fan profiles for all reference based Vega cards and AiB cards like the Vega Strix cards(no need for VGTab if not overclocking/undervolting)
• Native H.264 and HEVC for Polaris and Vega(no iGPU or NoVGAJpeg.kext required for things like Quicklook)
• AirPlay 2 support
• Issues with kernel extensions loading for users who are using 0x67 for CsrActiveConfig, solution seems to be to switch to full system wide disabling of SIP with 0x3E7 or switching to OpenCorePkg which has proper kext injection(ironic for an extreme alpha build).

Kernel extensions signed after April 7th, 2019 must be notarized in order to load on macOS 10.14.5. (50016570)

Users may still get warned by MacOs

System Integrity Protection warning

[B0:Allow Unrestricted Kexts] is currently disabled. Install kernel extensions may not function properly.

[B1: Allow Unrestricted File System] is currently disabled. Repairing permissions and installing kernel extensions may not function properly

There's more changes to 10.14.5 but these are the note worthy ones for Hackintosh users

Should I update? And how should I proceed?

No real harm in updating to 10.14.5 but each system is on a case-by-case basis, generally look for others running 10.14.5 with similar hardware to you. And things to keep in mind with updating to 10.14.5:

• Remember to update Clover, EFI drivers and all your kexts
• Have a backup of all your files(Time Machine is your friend)
• Make sure to have a USB with your system's EFI on it
• Clean up your EFI, get rid of unneeded clover drivers kexts and patches in your Config.plist and compare your system's to the Vanilla guide's

From the sounds of things, this'll likely be our second last major update to MacOS Mojave as the last 3 versions of MacOS had 6 updates total excluding security updates(10.11.6, 10.12.6, 10.13.6).

Well good luck to all and can't wait to see all the troubleshooting posts on updating around here ;)

- Your local Neighbourhood Hackintosh Slav