AppleInsider Staff
The most recent OS X Mountain Lion Server seed, build "12S219N," comes on the heels of Wednesday's Mountain Lion client build "12A206J" and is the latest developer preview to be released in the ongoing beta testing process that is scheduled to yield a gold master ready for public consumption sometime this summer.
A number of issues to be ironed out by developers include installing apps on iOS managed devices, a sporadic Spotlight problem in Xsan and SMTP server authentication in Mail. Also of note is a directory services bug that sees clients failing to bind to non-SSL-enabled Open Directory Servers.
Developers can download OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 4 through Apple's Development Center.
The latest seed keeps with the monthly beta updates as the client version of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 was issued in April, which followed a second preview from mid-March.
Apple's next-generation operating system is set to further blur the lines between iOS and OS X with features like tighter integration with iCloud and geofence location alerts, among many others.
Mountain Lion is expected to be a tentpole topic at this year's WWDC as Apple has promised to show developers the "future of iOS and OS X" at the conference scheduled to start on June 11.
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Since they've built the base code so well in Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. Mountain Lion is really just polishing the O/S and squashing bugs which isn't a bad thing. I'm hoping there will be some real new features for that $29 they are going to get from me.
Does this mean they're going to go back into the server market?!?!? HAHAHAHA...
The upgrades from Leopard Server -> Snow Leopard Server -> Lion Server were all horrible experiences.
I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage. But I'm glad to see ML server. Apple's commitment to OSX server has seemed a bit in question recently. I wouldn't be disappointed if they decoupled OSX client from server. I don't want to be upgrading my server OS every 12 months.
I'm conflicted as to whether I should move from SL server to LIon server. There doesn't seem to be much advantage.
Push e-mail to iOS was the motivating factor for me to move to Lion Server, but it was painful. If I had waited several months for 10.7.3, perhaps it would have gone smoother. I'll never know.