: A crashing bug that occurred during SVG exports—the digital equivalent of a canvas tearing—was finally patched.
The world outside the workshop was changing too. macOS 15 Sequoia had arrived, but it brought a strange curse to the "Edit With Acorn" feature in the Photos app. Images sent to Acorn would return looking "overexposed" or "darker," a victim of shifting color profiles. The 6.6.4 update introduced a clever workaround. By refusing to "upgrade" the color profile and keeping the original "Apple Wide Color Sharing Profile" intact, Acorn ensured that what the artist saw was what the artist kept. Smoothing the Path Acorn 6.6.4
For weeks, a specter had haunted the "Data Merge" feature. Users reported that their machines were slowing to a crawl, the software "consuming gobs of memory" as if it were a digital black hole. In version 6.6.4, the engineers finally cornered this ghost. They optimized the code so that even the most complex merges—hundreds of names and photos—would flow swiftly without choking the system. They also fixed a stubborn glitch where the Data Merge palette would simply refuse to appear, like a shy actor failing to take the stage. The Sequoia Shadows : A crashing bug that occurred during SVG