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Apple set to drop Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update on developers

Apple this week is preparing to equip its developer community with the first pre-release builds of the next maintenance and security update to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, AppleInsider has learned.

People familiar with the matter say Apple Developer Connection members and other high-profile software makers could receive the first test builds of the software prior to the start of the weekend. The first seedings will almost certainly arrive by the middle of next week, they say.

While details of the release are few and far between, a build train of the upcoming Leopard update will most likely include support for a new wave of Mac notebooks due later this fall. In general, builds should arrive numbered off the 9Fxx build train.

Apple's last update to Leopard — Mac OS X 10.5.4 — arrived on June 30th, a little less than one month after developers were first seeded with the software.

That release patched a major glitch with Adobe's Creative Suite 3.0 software and also laid the groundwork for Apple's bug-ridden MobileMe service.

19 Comments

scotty321 21 Years · 312 comments

Exactly! The "bug ridden" MobileMe service. Thank you for telling it how it is!

quinney 19 Years · 2527 comments

People get ready. The build train is coming.

steviet02 18 Years · 594 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by scotty321

Exactly! The "bug ridden" MobileMe service. Thank you for telling it how it is!

Ya, cause there hasn't been enough bitching about MobileMe problems, right? The inclusion of that in the article was almost as lame as your comment. Everybody knows they had problems, wtf already.

mactel 19 Years · 1275 comments

New features please!

I would liked to see the Spaces feature become more useful, right now I have no use for it even on my little MacBook.