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Big Sur Terminal fails to present a shell

Anyone encountering an issue with Big Sur and the terminal failing to present a shell some reasonably short time after boot? Initially works no problems, after a while new Terminal windows open fine but the shell never loads and you're left looking at a cursor.
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Catalina Beta 7 removed all iCloud synced Documents, no sign of an attempt to redownload

Is this a universal thing?All my iCloud Documents have been removed from the machines on the beta. They're still there in iCloud.com and on other devices but there's not even a hint of an attempt to resync them to the computers on the beta.
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Anyone got the 10.15 DP to open an encrypted Time Machine sparse bundle?

The 10.15 install produced a nice little flashing grey No symbol on its first boot as beta OSs are want to do.But when I went to restore from Time Machine it seems the Migration Assistant can't read network shared, encrypted sparesbundles. It doesn't even prompt for the password, just says its empty.File's fine if you boot into the OS and manually open it. Anyone managed to convince the Migration Assistant to open one or am I copying things by hand?
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What in Beta 4 killed 3rd party screensavers?

Anyone found what changed or got an example screensaver that works?Everything I run seems to get the "You cannot run the screen saver with this version of macOS" message.
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Privacy controls need a better enable UI than going to System Preferences

Let me open by saying that I'm all in on what Apple are trying to do with the permissions here, great change.However, if you're going to have the average user going to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy as much as this change will have them doing so it really needs a streamlined UI.Has any thought been given to inlineing the requested permissions in place of the current dialogue box directing the user to System Preferences? Something to cut down on the number of clicks?
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Bluetooth audio chirping / popping

I raised an issue about this back with the iOS 11 betas and I'm bringing it up again here now because there's still not been a resolution come the 11.2 betas.I am persistently seeing, across multiple iOS devices of several generations, issues with Bluetooth audio producing loud to very loud chirps and pops in the right channel of audio accompanied by a slight and quiet distortion.The effect is most noticable when playing back relatively quiet audio and particularly with sounds that are alread "sharp" against a quiet backdrop. Quiet speech and plosives being the most notable.I haven't confirmed this but I suspect there's some sort of cross channel issue attached as well as you can have a near silent right channel produce popping inline with audio on the left channel.So far I've confirmed this issue with iPhone 6, 6s, 7, 7 Plus, 8 and X as well as iPad Air 1, 2 and Pro on iOS 11. Audio devices reproducing the issue include several models of Sennheiser, Sony and B&O headphones as well as car audio kits from Ford, BMW, Jaguar and Porsche. The issue occurs regardless of location, so I don't believe it's interference and I know for certain that it did not occur with my personal iPhone 7 and iPad Air 2 on iOS 10.Is this widespread at all? I seem to be finding the occassional report online but I'd have expected it to be everywhere were it a universal issue.
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WatchOS 4.1 beta update offered to unprofiled watches

As of this morning we've discovered the WatchOS 4.1 beta has been downloaded and readied for install for several WatchOS 4.0 watches that do not have a developer profile associated paired to iPhones on 11.0.1 that also do not have any developer profile installed.
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iCloud Desktop and Documents sync not starting?

Anyone hit this or, better yet, managed to coax it to life?It seems upgraded Sierra machines keep the Desktop and Document sync ticking but clean High Sierra installs I can't get to start fetching things. The rest of iCloud seems to work fine.
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UI lag during Night Shift transition /w external displays - macOS 10.12.4 and 10.12.5 beta

I'm finding the Night Shift day > night transition causes very significant UI lag on our Late '13 Macbook Pros. We're seeing this in 10.12.4 and the 10.12.5 beta.Has anyone found workaround or is this just an OS bug / performance limitation presently?
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