Apple serves up first beta of OS X Lion 10.7.4 to developers

Apple has asked its Mac developers to begin testing Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 build 11E27 — the first external beta of the company's fourth maintenance release to its current Lion operating system.

The Friday release to Apple Developer Connection members, as first predicted by AppleInsider on Monday, was accompanied by a note asking developers to focus their testing efforts on AddressBook, Graphics, iCal, Mail, and Printing.

The 580MB delta release is said by those familiar with the software to contain just one known issue related to the inability to play content purchased through iTunes in QuickTime.Â

Separately, Apple on Friday also served up OS X Lion Server Software Update 10.7.4 build 11E27 — a 622MB delta update to Lion's server software with changes to Calendars, Contacts, Server App, Web Server, WebDAV Sharing and ServerAdmin DNS.

Earlier in the day, the Mac maker also released the second developer preview of Mountain Lion, the successor to Lion due for release sometime this summer.

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22 Comments

drfreeman

said about 12 years ago

I am just hoping that in Mountain Lion, iTunes is divided into two units; music and video! This will be in line with iOS 5 as well which has them separated!

myapplelove

said about 12 years ago

iTunes is a content managing mess, if ever there was a dire need for it to be re-imagined, split into components, streamlined etc etc. it's now. It's the uber media manager that has become a gargantuan monster. Strange how it didnt manage to eat up the app store too on the mac...

iTunes has to focus again on music. A separate books and audiobooks application has to become the front end for books with its own store (kindle has it's own mac app but apple doesn't have a native ePub and book manager?), and QuickTime has to finally become a decent video manager and video store and become "videos".

solipsismx

said about 12 years ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrFreeman

I am just hoping that in Mountain Lion, iTunes is divided into two units; music and video! This will be in line with iOS 5 as well which has them separated!

I do not want a separate app for movies, TV shows, video podcasts, iTunes U videos and music videos, and then a separate app for music, audio podcasts, voice notes, ringtones, iTunes U audio, and audio books just to organize one device. Do we then get a separate app for syncing books and PDfs? Then a separate app for managing iOS apps? I want the iTunes hub to be a way to a quickly and convenient way to organize all my iDevice content at once.