AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Thursday released a supplemental update for its Mountain Lion operating system, containing stability and compatibility improvements, as well as a minor update to iTunes with patches for new podcast listening features.
According to the release notes, OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental Update 1.0 contains fixes for issues with Mail and screensaver behavior, as well as performance enhancements for AFP file transfer over 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Xsan reliability.
From the release notes:
The OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 Update is recommended for all users running OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5. This update:
- Resolves an issue that may prevent certain applications from using the FaceTime HD camera on mid-2013 MacBook Air systems
- Fixes an issue that may cause external hard drvies to be ejected after the computer goes to sleep
- Addresses an issue that may prevent HDMI audio from working after waking from sleep
- Fixes an issue that may prevent certain USB Bluetooth adapters from working
As noted above, the update is recommended for all Mountain Lion users. The latest 10.8.5 supplemental update can be downloaded from Apple's Support Downloads webpage, or via Software Update.
Released alongside the 10.8.5 update is iTunes 11.1.1 with fixes for iTunes Extras and management of deleted podcasts, as well as overall stability improvements.
The latest iTunes version can be downloaded through Software Update.
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Good, I was about to go back to full time beta Mavericks, Safari in 10.8.5 is crashing every five minutes for me. I hope this fixes that!
I hope this fixes the Home Sharing issues I've been having between Macs. It appears to be an iTunes-only issue that started with 11.1.0. You can play a video but after the first one the next will randomly freeze momentarily for an undetermined amount of time. This duration and frequency increases. This also occurs in a single video if you jumped around too much looking for a place to start. I couldn't find a resolution even though many others seem to have similar problems so I created a Dock Item using Automator that would kill and then restart the iTunes app. [quote name="digitalclips" url="/t/159918/apple-releases-os-x-10-8-5-mountain-lion-supplemental-update-itunes-11-1-1#post_2410843"]Good, I was about to go back to full time beta Mavericks, Safari in 10.8.5 is crashing every five minutes for me. I hope this fixes that![/quote] Safari crashes with this site, and only this site, in Mavericks. At least with Mavericks it's just that tab and it reopens again when it happens.
Good, I was about to go back to full time beta Mavericks, Safari in 10.8.5 is crashing every five minutes for me. I hope this fixes that!
If you have access to Mavericks you should be testing 6.1 Beta Safari.
Ouch.
This broke something for me.
iTunes now constantly asks for permission to accept incoming network connections on starting up and various icons are out of alignment/corrupted.
I'm now also getting a huge list of disk permissions that need repairing that I then repair and they return again.
Anybody else having similar issues, or was I just 'lucky'?
EDIT:
This issue has been addressed (thanks, Sol!) and appears to have been related to a one-off install corruption.
I have since re-installed 11.1.1 (11) and everything appears to be working fine.
[quote name="mdriftmeyer" url="/t/159918/apple-releases-os-x-10-8-5-mountain-lion-supplemental-update-itunes-11-1-1#post_2410862"] If you have access to Mavericks you should be testing 6.1 Beta Safari. [/quote] I do and 10.9 is way better but I have been running back on ML for the last few weeks as some apps I needed didn't work properly in 10.9. I'm on a MBP so tomorrow I will swap my internal SSD out and go back and update 10.9 and see if they work ok yet. They were, After Effects CS6 (won't work period), GuitarMIDI … it works but only if I reboot and don't run anything till I launch it then LPX. The other was a plug in for Aperture which I found a work around for now. Nothing major but both used by me daily. I can't wait to get back to 10.9 it rocks! BTW I'd been 100% on 10.9 for the last few months and was quite surprised to have so many Safari crashes when I went back to ML. Yes mostly AI site but also CNN blogs (both if editing a comment) and maps.google and going to google earth plugin crashed in 10.8.5 for me. EDIT … Ok never thought of the 6.1 beta … I was not really intending to stay in ML long … Getting it now.