Maintaining Deprecated Patch Management Software Titles with Title Editor

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On 31 December 2023, Jamf will begin labeling some Patch Management software titles as deprecated.

The deprecated software titles will not be immediately removed from the Jamf patch source, but will no longer receive updates.

On 31 January 2024, Jamf will begin removing these software titles due to changes made by the publisher that prevent Jamf from maintaining them. If you want to continue using Patch Management to maintain these software titles, you can use a tool from Jamf to download the patch definitions and prepare JSON files for import into Title Editor.


Patch Management Software Title	Patch Definition ID	Deprecated	Removed
Sophos Antivirus for Mac	SophosAntivirusforMac	31 Dec 2023	31 Jan 2024
Sophos Endpoint 10 for Mac	SophosEndpoint10forMac	31 Dec 2023	31 Jan 2024
Sophos Endpoint for Mac	SophosEndpointforMac	31 Dec 2023	31 Jan 2024
Symantec Endpoint Protection	SymantecEndpointProtection	31 Dec 2023	31 Jan 2024
OnlyYooz	54D	31 Dec 2023	31 Jan 2024
McAfee Endpoint Security for Mac	McAfeeEndpointSecurityforMac	03 Mar 2024

Requirements

A Title Editor instance set up in Jamf Pro. For requirements and instructions, see the Title Editor Documentation.

Navigate to https://github.com/jamf/kinobi-title-editor to access the script for downloading a patch definition.
Download the script and edit the configuration as follows:
1. Update the SRC_HOST and SRC_SIGN variables to:
```
SRC_HOST="jamf-patch.jamfcloud.com/v1"
SRC_SIGN=1
```
2. Update the IDS variable with the IDs for the software titles in your environment. For example:
```
IDS=( SophosAntivirusforMac SophosEndpoint10forMac SophosEndpointforMac SymantecEndpointProtection 54D )
```
Execute a command in Terminal similar to the following:
```
chmod +x /path/to/download_patch_source.sh
```

A folder opens with the JSON files for the software title IDs you specified in the script.

You can now import the JSON files into your Title Editor instance. For instructions, see Importing Patch Definitions from a JSON File in the Title Editor Documentation.