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> their copy protection management tool/device driver - iLok

MacOS Catalina makes running kernel extensions hard, they probably were testing new iLok version for Catalina.

Catalina major change is ANY dll should know pass through security. That's why notirisation also for software plug-ins is needed meaning also runtime hardening in future and proper entitlements by host and plug in

Your comment is a bit hard to parse. Would you mind clarifying it a bit?

I’ve started to write something but here is a good tl;dr - https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/122566

Right, Library Validation is tightened when you opt-in to Runtime Hardening.

> MacOS Catalina makes running kernel extensions hard

So it has bad compatibility?

Is that a good thing which we’re excusing now?

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