@scottb Thanks so much for sharing the code and @mm2270 thank you for taking the time to teach me that, I got it working now!

@TomDay - I posted that above but maybe I should have used bold on it.
Glad you guys are finding it useful. We use it in testing seed builds of the OS so I guess I forgot how cool it was when I started using it as well. Maybe a good item to put into Self Service for checking on Macs in the "Maintenance" tab. Not that anyone would know what to do with the info, but it looks nice. :)

Thanks scottb! Appreciate the share.

Forgive my ignorance, but anybody have any info on "Core Suggest"? I'm not familiar with it and didn't find much with a quick search.

@mbezzo - here's the contents of it. Still not really sure, but you can get some ideas looking at this:

@scottb
Interesting - thanks!

Here's an updated rev that is a little nicer. A mix of contributions by a few people.
Gives you the below in the screenshot.

--start of script 



########################################## 

# Variables 

########################################## 

set updateMarker to " *"



set saveLocation to "~/Library/Preferences/com.appleseedCriticalUpdates.txt"



set lastUpdate to {}



set thisDate to {}



set hasBeenUpdated to ""



set TimeStrings to {"/System/Library/CoreServices/XProtect.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta.plist", "/private/var/db/gkopaque.bundle/Contents/version.plist", "/System/Library/Sandbox/Compatibility.bundle/Contents/version.plist", "/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app/Contents/version.plist", "'/System/Library/Intelligent Suggestions/Assets.suggestionsassets/Contents/version.plist'", "/System/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/version.plist", "/usr/share/mecabra/updates/com.apple.inputmethod.SCIM.bundle/Contents/version.plist", "/usr/share/kdrl.bundle/info.plist"}



set VersionStrings to {"/System/Library/CoreServices/XProtect.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta.plist Version", "/private/var/db/gkopaque.bundle/Contents/version.plist CFBundleShortVersionString", "/System/Library/Sandbox/Compatibility.bundle/Contents/version.plist CFBundleShortVersionString", "/System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app/Contents/version CFBundleShortVersionString", "/System/Library/Intelligent\\ Suggestions/Assets.suggestionsassets/Contents/version.plist CFBundleShortVersionString", "/System/Library/Extensions/AppleKextExcludeList.kext/Contents/version CFBundleShortVersionString", "/usr/share/mecabra/updates/com.apple.inputmethod.SCIM.bundle/Contents/info SUVersionString", "/usr/share/kdrl.bundle/info CFBundleVersion"}



set theComponents to {"XProtect", "Gatekeeper", "System Integrity Protect...", "Malware Removal Tool", "Core Suggestions", "Incompatible Kernel Ext...", "Chinese Word List", "Core LSKD (dkrl)"}

set theTabSpaces to ""



set _multiTabs to tab & tab & tab & tab

set displayString to "Component" & _multiTabs & "Version" & tab & "Updated" & tab & tab & "Time" & return & "_______________________________________________________________" & return & return





########################################## 

# Handlers 

########################################## 





# calculate the number of tabs required for the display dialog 

on getTabs(aWord)

    set n to round (25 - (length of aWord)) / 4

    if n is less than 0 then set n to 1

    if length of aWord is 10 then set n to 3

    set this_tab to tab

    repeat n times

        set this_tab to this_tab & tab

    end repeat

    return this_tab

end getTabs



#get the last modification date 

on getUpdatedDate(aFile)

    set d to do shell script "stat -f "%Sc" -t "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M" " & aFile

    set end of my thisDate to d

    return d



end getUpdatedDate



#compare the dates to see if there's been a change 

on checkLastUpdate(aDateString, anIndex)

    set n to text 1 thru 10 of aDateString

    set o to text 1 thru 10 of my (item anIndex of lastUpdate)



    if (n is equal to o) then

        return ""

    else

        return my updateMarker

    end if

end checkLastUpdate





########################################## 

# Commands 

########################################## 



# read the dates into our script from the last run 

set oldTIDS to AppleScript's text item delimiters

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ","

try

    set s to (do shell script "cat " & saveLocation)

    set lastUpdate to text items of s

end try

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTIDS



# this is the workhorse, getting all the data for each component 

repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theComponents

    set component_item to item i of theComponents

    set version_item to item i of VersionStrings

    set time_item to item i of TimeStrings

    set theTabSpaces to getTabs(component_item)

    set updatedDate to getUpdatedDate(time_item)



    # check if we had some saved dates from a previous run 

    #and if so, check them against the current dates 

    if (count of (lastUpdate as list)) = (count of theComponents) then

        set my hasBeenUpdated to checkLastUpdate(updatedDate, i)

    end if



    # organise the display string 

    set v to (do shell script "defaults read " & version_item)

    if length of v < 4 or (length of v = 4 and v contains ".") then set v to v & tab

    set displayString to displayString & component_item & theTabSpaces & v & tab & updatedDate & my hasBeenUpdated & return

    set my hasBeenUpdated to ""

end repeat



#write out current dates to file 

set writeData to ""

repeat with i from 1 to number of items in thisDate

    set this_item to item i of thisDate

    if length of writeData is 0 then

        set writeData to this_item

    else

        set writeData to writeData & "," & this_item

    end if

end repeat

do shell script "echo " & writeData & "> " & saveLocation



# finally, get the OS version and build 

set theSysInfo to (do shell script "sw_vers")

set sysString to paragraph 2 of theSysInfo & return & paragraph 3 of theSysInfo

set displayString to displayString & return & sysString



# and... 

display dialog displayString buttons {"Close"} default button "Close" with title "Critical Updates (v1.1)"



--EOF

@scottb

Nice AppleScript! Hey have you updated this for 10.12?

@ClassicII - not yet. I'll see if that can be looked at and post back. Thanks for the reminder... Happy 4th!

Hey @ClassicII et.al, Phil has taken this over and is offering it up on his site (with other stuff). Check it out - he's a dev and a longtime fellow AppleSeeder. I pinged him about getting the script as he delivers it in .app form now. If he's cool with me posting the script here, I'll add it later. We used to pass it around and folks would edit to their needs...guess he's the gatekeeper (not intended) now.

Phil's site

Current screenie