AppleInsider Staff
As Apple continues to refine the next update to its desktop operating system, the company seeded a sixth pre-release version of OS X 10.10.3 to developers and members of the OS X public beta program on Thursday.
Identified as build number 14D130a, the latest revision remains focused primarily on the new Photos app. Issues remain when using Photos and the iCloud Photo Library beta with iOS 8.1.3 or earlier, and the company urges testers to maintain regular backups when testing this configuration.
Additional emphasis is placed on testing Wi-Fi captive portals, such as those found in airports or coffee shops. This has been a problem area since the first OS X 10.10.3 beta, signaling that Apple may be having trouble with its networking stack in this configuration.
The company also asks testers to look at screen sharing, Safari, and Mail as well as Arabic and Hebrew system translations.
OS X 10.10.3 beta 6 comes one week after the release of the fifth beta, which added updates to OS X's recovery partition. The update is available to developers and testers via the Mac App Store.
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Hopefully this one will be worth upgrading from 10.9.5.
[quote name="SpamSandwich" url="/t/185562/apple-pushes-sixth-os-x-10-10-3-beta-to-developers-and-public-testers#post_2703063"]Hopefully this one will be worth upgrading from 10.9.5. [/quote] Even the first one was. Heck when I run 10.9 I feel like I am in the last century already!
I've seen so many people complaining about Yosemite, I haven't dared to make the leap yet. Perhaps the majority of the ongoing complaints will be smoothed out.
Gotta give Craig Federighi and Co. credit - this build, like the previous one, has made my Mac snappier even while it's still downloading. VAVOOM!
Quote: "Heck when I run 10.9 I feel like I am in the last century already!" Yes, I felt like I'd gone backwards when I 'upgraded' from 10.6.