Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 for Mac users who are interested in continuing to run the macOS Big Sur operating system, rather than jump to macOS Monterey 12. The 11.6.1 update is said to improve the security of macOS Big Sur and is therefore recommended to all users to install.
macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 comes alongside the release of MacOS Monterey 12 for Mac, iOS 15.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 15.1 for iPad, watchOS 8.1 for Apple Watch, and tvOS 15.1 for Apple TV.
Mac users running macOS Catalina will also find Security Update 2021-007 Catalina available to download if they’d prefer to stay with the Catalina release.