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Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:00 pm
Apple seeds first Mac OS X 10.6.5 build to developers
Developers report Apple has just made available the first build of what will ship as the free Mac OS X 10.6.5 update later this fall.The new build, numbered 10H525, incorporates solutions to existing problems with Exchange Server support, fixes user interface issues with embedded WebKit views in applications such as iTunes, and includes the graphics drivers in the earlier Snow Leopard Graphics Update release.
Apple is asking developers in particular to test iCal, Mail, printing, OpenGL 3D Graphics, QuickTime and the X Window X11 subsystems.
The current release of Mac OS X was last updated in June following WWDC. The initial developer build of 10.6.5 was anticipated to ship nearly a month ago in late July, but has continued to slip as Apple continues to focus its efforts on NVIDIA graphics drivers and related issues.
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Hope they rake a long look at Mail. It worked great for me on gmail for months, then one day poof, couldn't find the surfer. Troubleshot it for a while, couldn't fix it, switched to ThunderBird. Miss Mail though.
Must be a limited audience for this release. Haven't seen the notice yet.
-Chris
I wonder if OpenGL support has been upgraded.
Hope they rake a long look at Mail. It worked great for me on gmail for months, then one day poof, couldn't find the surfer. Troubleshot it for a while, couldn't fix it, switched to ThunderBird. Miss Mail though.
I would post your issue and attempted resolutions in detail at the MacOSXhints forums. It's a great place for resolving most issues.
OSX seems so stable to me right now. I'd appreciate a new release of iLife and iWork - just bought a new iMac 21" i3. I couldn't hold-out anymore in waiting for those next releases.
We haven't had a separate security updates for quite some time even though I hear of many exploits coming out of recent hacking events. It would be more comforting if Apple released security updates more frequently than OSX builds to put its users (like me) at ease. Lord knows the hackers are finding the holes so maybe Apple should hire these people to harden the OS.
Sweet - I hope they fix the X11 bugs. Can't run 11gR2 netmgr without xQuartx. 
I hope it fixed my SMB windows sharing...ever since 10.6.3 it's been on and off...
The "Finder View Search Prefs" will ever be "fixed" ?
You know, like it used to be in 10.4 or 10.5
Could order the "results" by "size" - remember ?
Or even search selected Disc/Drives and ONLY those
Etc etc
Is a "hack" I found, somewhere, that allows altering via Terminal, or something - sorry forget now what it was, but found it and did it, so able to "work around"
But is not very "elegant" nor "simple" when we have to resort to "hacks" to do something in OSX that used to be automatic, dig ?
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Ergo ... hope others will also keep Apple's feet to the fire to "fix" this
Thanks, BC
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I hope the latest track pad update gets some fine tuning. I've noticed lately that track pad behaviour can be a bit glitchy. I really like the new scrolling behaviour on my MBP so I'm not going back.
Driver improvements for the GPU on the early 2008 MBP would be welcomed too.
In any event SL has been pretty darn good for me.
Dave
I wonder if OpenGL support has been upgraded.
From some I've the reports I've seen, Apple at the urging of Valve and others is really starting to get serious about their OpenGL implementation. With the drivers in development some willing to break the NDA have reported scores up to 3 times higher in OpenGL Viewer and significantly higher game performance on all cards.
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