Retirement of selected ‘Legacy’ definitions.
Back in February of 2021 we announced that we would be marking a number of Patch Management definitions as deprecated. This was quickly changed to adding the text of (Legacy Definition) in the publisher column of Patch Management due to the unintended consequence of the ‘Deprecated’ tag. Since that time we had been maintaining the Legacy Definitions in sync with new new replacement definitions, though we have recommended that customers use the ‘newer’ definitions in their Patch Management policies.
We have now made the decision to formally deprecate a number of the legacy titles and remove them from the list of available Patch Management titles in Jamf App Catalog.
This removal of legacy definitions will happen over time. The first step will be to change the text in the publisher column from ‘Legacy Definition’ to ‘Deprecated Definition’. Whilst the definitions will still be available for a short period of time in Jamf App Catalog, they will no longer be updated.
The list of titles that will be deprecated are:
Publisher | Name |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Acrobat Pro DC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Acrobat Pro XI |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Acrobat Reader DC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Acrobat Reader XI |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe AIR |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Core Components CC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Fireworks CS6 |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Flash Player |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Lightroom CC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Lightroom Classic CC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC |
Adobe (Legacy Definition) | Adobe Shockwave Player |
Apple Inc. (Legacy Definition) | macOS 10.13 Build |
Apple Inc. (Legacy Definition) | macOS 10.14 Build |
Apple Inc. (Legacy Definition) | macOS 10.15 Build |
Box Inc (Legacy Definition) | Box Drive |
Citrix Systems, Inc (Legacy Definition) | Citrix Workspace |
Citrix Systems, Inc (Legacy Definition) | Citrix Workspace |
Google (Legacy Definition) | Google Chrome |
Google LLC (Legacy Definition) | Backup and Sync |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft AutoUpdate |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Excel |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Excel 2016 Track |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Intune Company Portal |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft OneNote |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft OneNote 2016 Track |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Outlook |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Outlook 2016 Track |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft PowerPoint |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Track |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Silverlight |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Teams |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Word |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Microsoft Word 2016 Track |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | OneDrive |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Skype |
Microsoft (Legacy Definition) | Skype for Business |
Mozilla (Legacy Definition) | Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla (Legacy Definition) | Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) |
Slack Technologies, Inc (Legacy Definition) | Slack |
VideoLAN (Legacy Definition) | VLC media player |
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Legacy Definition) | zoom.us |
On the 3rd of April 2023 these definitions will be completely removed from Jamf App Catalog.
New Consolidated definitions.
The usual format of a Patch Management software title is to have the definitions separated by major versions. e.g. Photoshop 2021, Photoshop 2022 and Photoshop 2023 all appear as seperate titles with the minor patch versions being contained within each definition. Due to technical requirements, we have had a number of software titles in Patch Management that haven’t followed this structure and instead have had to be separated out by the ‘dot’ releases. Wireshark is an example of a definition that has been separated this way.
We understand that this kind of separation has affected a number of customer workflows. You couldn’t easily use Patch Management to upgrade an end user computer from Wireshark 2.2.13 to 3.6.11 for example. To address this we have developed a new mechanism that will allow us to combine these seperate definitions into a new definition format that we will be marking as a ‘Consolidated Definition’. Continuing with the Wireshark example, these separate definitions for version 3 of Wireshark will be combined into one Wireshark 3.0 patch definition.
In addition to this, selected Legacy Definitions will be renamed and also become Consolidated Definitions, so that these titles will remain available to admins, without the need to re-create Patch Management policies.
New Extension Attributes.
The other significant change that will be rolling out across the Patch Management definitions is to standardise the code as much as possible for any definitions that require the use of an Extension Attribute to determine the version of software on an end user computer. The definitions will remain, it is just the code used in the Extension Attribute that will be updated.
As this is a code change, you will be required to review the new Extension Attribute code and accept the change from within the ‘Extension Attribute’ tab of the affected patch definition. See the Mozilla Firefox example below.
New extension attributes will be implemented on the 6th of March 2023.
The full list of titles that will be receiving changes to their Extension Attributes are:
Publisher | Name |
3CX | 3CXPhone |
ActiveState Software | Komodo Edit 8 |
ActiveState Software | Komodo Edit 9 |
ActiveState Software | Komodo Edit 10 |
ActiveState Software | Komodo Edit 11 |
ActiveState Software | Komodo Edit 12 |
Adobe | Adobe Flash Player |
Adobe | Adobe Gaming SDK |
Adobe | Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw CC |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot, JRE) 8 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot, JRE) 11 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot, JRE) 14 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot, JRE) 15 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot, JRE) 16 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot) 8 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot) 11 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot) 14 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot) 15 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (Hotspot) 16 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9, JRE) 8 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9, JRE) 11 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9, JRE) 14 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9, JRE) 15 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9, JRE) 16 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9) 8 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9) 11 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9) 14 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9) 15 |
AdoptOpenJDK | AdoptOpenJDK (OpenJ9) 16 |
Airtame | Airtame |
Amaris Consulting | Octory |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 8 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 11 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 15 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 16 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 17 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 18 |
Amazon | Amazon Corretto 19 |
Axure | Axure RP 9 |
Axure | Axure RP 10 |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 8 (LTS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 9 |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 10 |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 11 (LTS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 12 |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 13 (MTS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 14 |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 15 (MTS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 16 (STS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 17 (LTS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 18 (STS) |
Azul | Zulu OpenJDK 19 (STS) |
Bart Reardon | swiftDialog |
Docker | Docker Kitematic |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for C and C++ Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Embedded C and C++ Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Java and DSL Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Java Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for RCP and RAP Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Rust Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Scientific Computing |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Scout Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Testers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse IDE for Web and JavaScript Developers |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Modeling Tools |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin (JRE) 8 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin (JRE) 11 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin (JRE) 17 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 8 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 11 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 16 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 17 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 18 |
Eclipse Foundation | Eclipse Temurin 19 |
Google | Google Android Studio |
Google | Google Backup and Sync |
Google | Google Drive |
HashiCorp | Vagrant |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9, JRE) 8 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9, JRE) 11 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9, JRE) 16 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9, JRE) 17 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9, JRE) 18 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9) 8 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9) 11 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9) 16 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9) 17 |
IBM | IBM Semeru Runtime (OpenJ9) 18 |
IntelliScape Solutions | Caffeine |
Jamf | Jamf Connect Login |
Jamf | Jamf Protect |
JetBrains | JetBrains DataSpell |
JetBrains | JetBrains PyCharm Community |
JetBrains | JetBrains PyCharm Professional |
Luxion | KeyShot 9 |
Luxion | KeyShot 9 Network Rendering |
Luxion | KeyShot 9 Viewer |
Luxion | KeyShot 10 |
Luxion | KeyShot 10 Network Rendering |
Luxion | KeyShot 10 Viewer |
Luxion | KeyShot 11 |
Luxion | KeyShot 11 Network Rendering |
Luxion | KeyShot 11 Viewer |
Malwarebytes | Malwarebytes 4 |
McNeel | Rhinoceros 6 |
McNeel | Rhino 7 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.1 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 2.2 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 3.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 3.1 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 5.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 6.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET Runtime 7.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 2.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 2.1 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 2.2 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 3.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 3.1 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 5.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft .NET SDK 7.0 |
Microsoft | Microsoft OneDrive |
Microsoft | Microsoft Skype |
Mozilla | Mozilla Firefox |
Mozilla | Mozilla Firefox ESR |
Mozilla | Mozilla Firefox Developer Edition |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 4 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 5 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 6 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 7 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 8 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 9 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 10 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 11 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 12 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 13 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 14 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 15 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 16 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 17 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 18 |
Node.js Foundation | Node.js 19 |
OpenMedia | 4K Video Downloader |
Opera Software | Opera |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 7 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8 (CPU) |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 9 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 10 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 11 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 12 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 13 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 14 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 15 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 16 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 17 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 18 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Development Kit 19 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment JRE 7 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment JRE 8 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment JRE 8 (CPU) |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment JRE 9 |
Oracle | Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment JRE 10 |
Oracle | Oracle SQLDeveloper |
Progress | Chef Workstation |
Progress | ChefDK |
Python Software Foundation | Python 2 |
Python Software Foundation | Python 3 |
Royal Apps GmbH | Royal TSX |
Squared 5 | MPEG Streamclip |
Trimble | Trimble SketchUp 2016 |
Trimble | Trimble SketchUp 2021 |
Ultimaker BV | Ultimaker Cura |
YourKit | YourKit Java Profiler |
What do these changes mean for you?
If you have any Patch Management policies in use that still use one of the ‘Legacy Definition’ titles that are in the list above as being deprecated, please recreate your Patch Management policies using the newer replacement definitions.
If you have any Patch Management policies using a definition that will be affected by the Extension Attribute change then please review and accept the EA code change so that the Patch Management policy will continue to run as expected.
