

Catalina requires 4 GB of memory, an increase over the 2 GB required by Lion through Mojave. 2010–2012 Mac Pros, which could run Mojave only with a GPU upgrade, are no longer supported. MacOS Catalina officially runs on all standard configuration Macs that supported Mojave.

The operating system is named after Santa Catalina Island, which is located off the coast of southern California. In order to increase web compatibility, Safari, Chromium and Firefox have frozen the OS in the user agent running in subsequent releases of macOS at 10.15.7 Catalina. It is also the last version of macOS to have the major version number of 10 its successor, Big Sur, released on November 12, 2020, is version 11.

Catalina is the first version of macOS to support only 64-bit applications and the first to include Activation Lock. It is the successor to macOS Mojave and was announced at WWDC 2019 on Jand released to the public on October 7, 2019. MacOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the sixteenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.
