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Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 02:15 pm
Apple offers developers new Panther, Tiger builds
According to several Web reports, Apple this week seeded new builds of both Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther Update and Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. The latest build of Mac OS X 10.3.9, rumored to be 7W82, reportedly includes an official list of feature enhancements. Apple typically only includes this feature listing when development is winding down. It's expected that Mac OS X 10.3.9 will be released to the public in a matter of weeks, or days. Likewise, it appears that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is approaching final candidate status. Expected for release in early April, Web reports indicate that Tiger is now at build 8A420. The next-generation Mac operating system is slated to reach Gold Master status in about a week.
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Cant wait for apples april developer mailing 
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Originally posted by gjas15
Cant wait for apples april developer mailing
Cant wait for apples april developer mailing
I dont think that Tiger will be included in the april developer mailing, because on the first April it is only the announcement... And typically Apple will be waiting until Tiger's final release is in stores with shipping it to its developers!
So, you can expect that in the May Mailing Tiger will be included
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I'm still not 100% convinced that Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" will be released anytime soon...I'm still looking for public-verifyable signs from Apple before I'll be convinced. The 10.3.9 reports sound reasonable to me.
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Originally posted by wrldwzrd89
I'm still not 100% convinced that Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" will be released anytime soon...I'm still looking for public-verifyable signs from Apple before I'll be convinced.
I'm still not 100% convinced that Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" will be released anytime soon...I'm still looking for public-verifyable signs from Apple before I'll be convinced.
So do I. One would think that Apple would have sent out press invitations by now to make the April, 1 spot.
My guess is a release date sometime around or shortly before WWDC. Gives them a little more time to finish hardware upgrades.
The list of supposed 10.3.9 feature enhancements on macrumors.com appears to be identical to the 10.3.8 feature enhancements. The list on cafemac.com is different, and if true, will be very welcome while we're waiting for 10.4.1 -- which is when I'l move to 10.4.
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Originally posted by nagromme
Note to Apple: Early April is 3 months into 2005. Your promise of "first half" lets you push Tiger up to 6 months into 2005. Don't you think April is a little TOO early? You'll scare people!
April sounds too good to be true, but my pre-order is in and my fingers are crossed.
Note to Apple: Early April is 3 months into 2005. Your promise of "first half" lets you push Tiger up to 6 months into 2005. Don't you think April is a little TOO early? You'll scare people!
April sounds too good to be true, but my pre-order is in and my fingers are crossed.
It all makes me laugh. Come on, Apple, let's see that upgrade! People will think it's like Longhorn--
Whoo. Oh, it's coming sooner. AAAH! You'll scare people!!!!
Um, this is nearly two years since Panther. They've taken a lot longer with Tiger. Granted, there are a LOT of big upgrades in this.
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Originally posted by Swift
Um, this is nearly two years since Panther.
Um, this is nearly two years since Panther.
Apple started shipping Panther on October 24 2003, so about 17 months ago.
they list:
- updated font management
As one of the final imporvements in panther.. I wonder what they have done there. As some of you may read I'm not happy with the world of fonts.
flick.
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Originally posted by RolandG
So do I. One would think that Apple would have sent out press invitations by now to make the April, 1 spot.
So do I. One would think that Apple would have sent out press invitations by now to make the April, 1 spot.
Press invitations? I don't the the announcement of the release date will be more than a press release.
The current Tiger build is very stable and feature complete. Furthermore Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0 are supposed to have identical rendering engines, and since Safari 1.3 is included in 10.3.9 I expect 10.3.9 and 10.4 to be announced/released around the same time.
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Note to Apple: Early April is 3 months into 2005. Your promise of "first half" lets you push Tiger up to 6 months into 2005. Don't you think April is a little TOO early? You'll scare people!
April sounds too good to be true, but my pre-order is in and my fingers are crossed.