Apple on Wednesday released OS X 10.9.5, what is most likely the last non-security update for Mavericks, just weeks before the company will ship the successor, Yosemite.

The update, which Apple issued on the same day it released iOS 8 to millions of iPhone and iPad users, included only a few non-security changes, according to the company. Those included reliability improvements to VPNs (virtual private networks) and accessing files on an SMB (server message block) server. The latter is a widely-used file-sharing network protocol, supported primarily by the Windows Server software used by businesses, but also the foundation of OS X’s own Mac-to-Mac file sharing.

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