Can the Gold Master be updated if a second Gold Master is released?

[sofakng]

I'm tempted to download El Capitan and perform a clean install, but what happens if a second Gold Master is released? Is there just a simple update downloaded from the App Store?

Will I be able to update (if needed) to a 100% final version?

 

[Sirious]

Yes you will be able to install the latest version of El Cap straight away.
Just like iOS 9.

 

[patternjake]

Yup, it can be updated like any other build. However I doubt there will be another GM, I think this is it peeps!

 

[Sirious]

Yup, it can be updated like any other build. However I doubt there will be another GM, I think this is it peeps!

We thoughts hat about iOS 9 right? Lol

 

[MacManiac76]

If I were a betting man I would say there will be at least one more GM Candidate before September 30th.

 

[No-Me]

If I were a betting man I would say there will be at least one more GM Candidate before September 30th.

If there is nothing wrong there will only be one GM. I believe that over the last couple of years each big OS update only got one GM.

 

[MacManiac76]

If there is nothing wrong there will only be one GM. I believe that over the last couple of years each big OS update only got one GM.

Yosemite had 3 GM Candidate releases before the final GM release.

 

[No-Me]

Yosemite had 3 GM Candidate releases before the final GM release.

A GM Candidate is something different than a GM, Apple calls it the GM seed for a reason this year.

 

[MacManiac76]

A GM Candidate is something different than a GM, Apple calls it the GM seed for a reason this year.

Apple specifically is calling it a GM Candidate in the Downloads in the App Store. There technically will not be a GM until September 30th.

 

[maflynn]

but what happens if a second Gold Master is released? Is there just a simple update downloaded from the App Store?

If another GM is cut, then it will be done as a new download not as an update to the existing GM.