Eleventh major release of macOS (called OS X when released)
"Mac OS X 10.10" redirects here. Not to be confused with Mac OS X 10.1.
OS X Yosemite
Version of the macOS operating system
The default desktop of OS X Yosemite
Developer
Apple Inc.
OS family
Macintosh
Unix[1]
Source model
Closed, with open source components
General availability
October 16, 2014; 9 years ago (2014-10-16)
Latest release
10.10.5 (Build 14F2511)[2] / July 19, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-07-19)
Update method
Mac App Store
Platforms
x86-64
Kernel type
Hybrid (XNU)
License
APSL and Apple EULA
Preceded by
OS X Mavericks
Succeeded by
OS X El Capitan
Official website
Apple - OS X Yosemite - Overview at the Wayback Machine (archived August 28, 2015)
Tagline
Every bit as powerful as it looks.
Support status
Obsolete, unsupported as of August 2017. iTunes is no longer being updated, but is able to download driver updates to sync to newer devices.[3]
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OS X Yosemite (/joʊˈsɛmɪti/yoh-SEM-it-ee; version 10.10) is the eleventh major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers.
OS X Yosemite was announced and released to developers on June 2, 2014, at WWDC 2014 and released to public beta testers on July 24, 2014. Yosemite was released to consumers on October 16, 2014.[4] Following the Northern California landmark-based naming scheme introduced with OS X Mavericks, Yosemite is named after the national park.
^"OS X version 10.10 Yosemite on Intel-based Mac computers". The Open Group. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
^"OS X Yosemite". Mac App Store. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
^"iTunes – Apple". Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
^"Apple – OS X Yosemite – Overview". Apple Inc. (US). Archived from the original on July 16, 2013. OS X Yosemite. Coming this fall.
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