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14.1.1 is the current non-beta release of Sonoma.

STAY AWAY FROM SONOMA FOR NOW!!!

It's buggy as all get out, so much so, in fact, that Apple recently posted that they were temporarily suspending development of the next version of macOS to deal with the bugs.

Sonoma went through in-house testing, developer betas, and public betas before it was released!

I'll try to remember to keep you posted.

For What It Is Worth, my experience with Sonoma has been significantly different than Artie is reporting. I am currently running macOS 14.2 Beta 3 and I have only one open issue which did not appear until macOS 14.2 Beta 2, and may be unique to my particular configuration and settings, as I am the only one who has reported it to Apple. To that point, the only apps that failed to run were blocked by the app itself because it had not been tested with the specific version of macOS I was running. Sonoma cleared a few minor annoyances I had with Ventura, and has, in my experience, been the most trouble-free beta in the last four or five years, and in spite of the fact it has more and more significant under-the-hood changes than any upgrade since at least Catalina. It said there were iPhone widgets. Would that be to make phone calls from my Mac? It's not always easy for me to do, even with FaceTime.

I am not denying the reports of problems, but based on a completely unscientific analysis of a statistically insignificant sample, I would venture the majority are the result of Sonoma being highly optimized for Macs with Apple Silicon inside, not Intel. I also suspect that Apple may have private API's that are not available (documented?) for use by third-party application developers, which perhaps helps explain my remaining issue not appearing in Safari.

In response, I offer Apple pauses iOS 18, macOS 15 work to stomp bugs now.

Hmmm... I originally interpreted that article as referring to bugs in macOS 14, but further reading suggests it really refers to 15, although any bugs in 15 are very possibly holdovers from 14. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nonetheless, I still suggest that anyone who hasn't upgraded yet should hold of for at least another update or two.

I didn't want to misspeak, so I downloaded Bean and attempted to run it, and immediately ran afoul of a new security feature in macOS 14.2. There is probably a way to bypass that, but it will take some research. Apple is. getting very touchy about third-party developers including hidden tracking and phone home "features" in their software. Personally, I applaud the effort and there is an easy way for the developers to come into compliance, but that is sure to bite some older no longer developed or supported software.

According to this how to article Bean can export its files into various word-processing formats including Pages. Just be sure to export them before you upgrade to Sonoma.

When I no longer needed a word processing app and got rid of Bean, I saved all my docs as TextEdit files which are editable, but not formattable.

Sounds like you may have screwed up steps 3 & 4:
"3 Select the desired output format in the Export window
4 Select your preferred export options and click OK"

Did you look to see if those end files are PDFs? I'm pretty sure that they are.

I never saw what they were because nothing happened. I will try the app in a few days and see what happens.