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We've updated the title from “Apple retracts confirmation that Meltdown is fixed in 10.12 and 10.11”, which is the sort of thing that makes a fine initial comment but not what the guidelines ask for headlines.

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I think that 'About the security content of macOS $SOMEVERSION' is far less useful as a headline.

Whatever the headline is needs to come from the article, and we're more than happy to update it again if someone can suggest a better one.

Although I agree more with the original title, as that would be the exact message I need at this time, I would suggest to then at least also include Sierra, and El Capitan in the title as the fact that the document was updated is most relevant for users of those systems. Maybe reflect that something changed as well. Maybe:

About the security content of macOS High Sierra, Sierra and El Capitan [updated]

Sure thing, we've updated the title to include the other releases, but we'll let the article speak for itself on what was updated and when.

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Given the current circumstances, it's pretty clear what it is about.

I still see the Google Project Zero mitigations in this list. What did they walk back?

They have changed the document today (Jan 5th) and removed the confirmation that Meltdown was fixed in 10.12 and 10.11. It was previously thought to be patched but can no longer be considered fixed in those versions of the OS with this change.

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