AppleInsider StaffPublished thursday evening as part of the friday morning edition
For the first time in over three months, Apple Computer is asking its developer community to begin testing and providing feedback on a forthcoming update to its Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.
Those people say the maintenance and security release was made available in two distinct distributions — a bare-bones "Delta" updater and a more inclusive "Combo" version.
Apple reportedly asked developers to focus their testing efforts on system components such as .Mac connectivity, Bluetooth, Bonjour, FireWire, Graphics and USB.
Other areas of testing singled out by the Mac maker included Adobe Flash, Automator, Dashboard Widgets, Fonts, iChat video conferencing and iSync.
Already, the build distributed to developers includes over a dozen fixes to problems that have turned up in previous versions of the Tiger operating system, people familiar with the software say.
Some of the bugs Tiger users can expect solutions for in the upcoming release pertained to Rosetta, USB Modem and caller ID, the Universal Access preferences pane, Bluetooth and device pairing, QC Engine, and CoreGraphics and HID Manager.
Mac OS X 10.4.9 is also said to focus heavily on enhancements to various synching technologies, bundling fixes for Mac and syncing, Sync Services Engine, Sync Services and .Mac Sync, and rsync and extended attributes.
Apple last updated Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in late September when it released Mac OS X 10.4.8.
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I would hope 4.9 is last, and that Apple can do math (i.e. no 4.10).
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it's not a decimal system
I would hope 4.9 is last, and that Apple can do math (i.e. no 4.10).
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4.9.1
In development terms, it isn't uncommon to see something like 4.10 to follow after 4.9. It may not be mathematically correct, but isn't uncommon.
Maybe the sudden focus on bluetooth linking has something to do with the iPhone (Yes, I know the name's taken, but I'd either be calling it that or the New Newton.... the NEWton!)
FOR THE LAST TIME, SOFTWARE VERSIONS ARE NOT BASED ON THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. Hence you can have "SomeApp 11", for example. Or 1.15.
Moving along, they better improve iSync's range of phones. It's very limited at the moment, and most of the phones supported are old and outdated.