Important notice: Beginning with this version, Jamf is no longer sending maintenance release email messages. We will continue to send Jamf Pro release announcement email messages for major and minor releases (e.g., 12.0.0, 11.21.0, respectively).

This is very concerning, some organizations like mine have very strict change control procedures that require us to submit change requests for vendor initiated changes for governance and notification of outages. Jamf changing its posture to rely on us checking Jamf nation and hopefully seeing a community manager post about a minor upgrade’s is deeply concerning and a violation of fundamental change management and stakeholder notification practices. Organizations cannot use community message boards as notifications for official change events. 

agreed. I’m not always watching the macadmins slack channel and these emails are usually how i know an update is available (hence me coming to this thread). 

If Jamf was a consumer oriented company, it’s understandable to a degree. In what world does this decision make any sense?

Couldn’t you have at least sent an email to let people know that this was coming? I don’t recall seeing one.

[PI134363] Fixed: When configuring a computer configuration profile with a Network payload with "Any ethernet" selected, Jamf Pro incorrectly uses the string "AnyEthernet" instead of the required "GlobalEthernet" in the payload, preventing computers from successfully joining corporate 802.1x wired networks.

Happy to see this one fixed! 

Oh joy! So I get notified by email that someone responded to this thread and our email security flags it saying that the following link is potentially malicious. I don’t see anything in this link that supposedly originated from Jamf that makes me believe it is Jamf other than I know that there is a us-west-2 server as listed in the schedule above.

pwreyz8k.r.us-west-2.awstrack.me

It’s actually impressive how bad of a decision this is that someone made.

We really need to be in the know about product updates. More communication. More information. Not less. This isn’t stuff that should be relegated to some forum that is painful to navigate and get the information you want or need.

I encourage someone at Jamf to rethink this one.

This is a horrible decision. We’re busy folks, and we’re customers, and vendors should be pushing all update release information to us in a timely and transparent manner. Don’t make me schedule a recurring reminder in my calendar to go to a website to see if there’s important information, then to another webpage to see when the important information will take place.

Update on release notifications: what’s changing and what we’re adding

Thank you for the candid feedback. We should have communicated this change ahead of time, and we’re sorry for the frustration it caused. As we shift to more frequent weekly maintenance releases, our intent was to reduce inbox noise. We also hear that many of you rely on push notifications for change control. Going forward, here’s what you can expect:

• Email will continue for minor and major releases that introduce new features or broader fixes.
• Subscribe today for maintenance updates in Jamf Nation > Release Announcements > Subscribe; and Jamf Learning Hub > Jamf Pro Release Notes > Watch “New Features and Enhancements.”
• Based on your feedback, we are evaluating additional opt‑in push options for maintenance releases: per‑release email, a weekly digest, an RSS feed, (e.g., Slack/Teams).

We will return soon with the final set of options and timing. Please reply with your preferred channel and any change control requirements we should consider. Thanks for helping us improve how we keep you informed.