Apple this week updated macOS Sierra, likely for the last time other than to deliver security patches.

The update — the sixth since Sierra debuted in September 2016 — signaled that its successor, macOS High Sierra, may officially ship on the same timetable as its predecessor.

Sierra 10.12.6 resolved a Lilliputian list of stability and compatibility issues, among them unexpected restarts of Xsan clients; Xsan is Apple’s storage area network (SAN) technology. The stability of Terminal, the operating system’s command-line interface, was also improved, according to Apple.

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