OpenCore Legacy Patcher: Important creator apparently goes to Apple

“Bitter sweetness” news from the OpenCore legacy Patcher project (OCLP): Mykola Grymalyuk alias Mykola, one of the central people in the software with which old Macs can still be provided with current MacOS versions years later, has announced the end of his cooperation. The reason: Mykola has started a new position at a “fruit company”, as he In a detailed blog post writes.

Continue to chop on macos – only now at Apple

“After a few really great years in which I worked on OpenCore Legacy Patcher, I think it is time to steer my work to break Apple platforms in a new direction. Specifically, it is about a small start-up company based in Cupertino.” From this week, Mykola works at Apple, interestingly in the group’s bug bounty team. There he will put mistakes submitted by developers in MacOS and Co.

MYKOLA benefits his experience at OCLP: The project also tries to chop or change macOS in this way, because Apple himself cuts off the support of older Macs. The former OCLP maker is said to be in Seattle, he moves from Canada. According to his own information, he started the job this week.

At OCLP it continues

This means changes for OCLP, but not the end. So other long -time makers are there. Mykola once had the project with Dinakg started in 2020. “Our basic idea was: How do we get (the then current, editor’s editor at the time) Macos Big Sur on unexpectedly supported Macs?” This was also successful and version for version, OCLP brings new opportunities here, most recently with MacOS 15 and soon certainly with MacOS 26.

Mykola announced that he hoped that his departure would not require conversions to the overall project. “There are still numerous brilliant members (the community | who work on the Patcher. The project remains in good hands.” MacOS himself wishes mykola “All the best” in the future. He should have to do directly as part of Apple’s bug-bounty program-but hopefully not that the patching becomes heavier and OCLP is less often through.