Shell & TerminalNews September 1, 2026 2 min read
Apple Makes Zsh the Default Shell in macOS Catalina
Announced June 4, 2019, the switch from Bash to Zsh as macOS's default shell traced back to a licensing constraint, not a technical judgment about which shell was better — Apple was stuck on an old, GPLv2 Bash version indefinitely.
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