Hot on the heels of macOS Monterey 12.2, Apple have publicly released the macOS Monterey 12.3 Beta Release Notes.

Despite this being a point release, there are a few breaking changes.

The kernels for both the Dropbox Desktop Application and Microsoft OneDrive are called out as deprecated in the release notes, and as such both have updates and/or changes coming to overcome this change.

However, the more impactful change is the removal of Python 2 (/usr/bin/python).

This has a number of ramifications, and is really a very large change to drop in a point release.

See below for more details on this, and how it will likely affect every Mac Admin.

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