AppleInsider Staff
With the next version of Apple's flagship desktop operating system nearing release, new preview versions of OS X Yosemite were seeded to both registered Mac developers as well as participants of the public beta program.
Developers will receive Developer Preview 8, carrying build number 14A361c, while public beta testers can download Public Beta 3. Both are available as delta updates through the Mac App Store.
It is unclear whether the two pre-release versions are in lockstep when it comes to their respective codebases, but the new Developer Preview does continue to show some deficiencies.
As before, developers with automatic updates enabled will not be logged in automatically after reboot. Those with FileVault encryption enabled will find their computer shut down if login is not completed "shortly" after the restart.
Family Sharing pages on the Mac and iOS App Stores remain disabled, while Apple continues to remind developer that they will need to re-sign applications with new Gatekeeper signatures. In addition, problems persist with Handoff of untitled TextEdit documents.
Apple has also reaffirmed that SMS Continuity, which was removed from the Golden Master version of iOS 8, will not be available until October. The change is likely due to OS X Yosemite's arrival after its iOS counterpart.
Other areas with lingering issues include Extensions, iCloud Drive, Aperture, iPhoto, Safari, Developer Tools, and localization.
Also updated on Monday were Xcode 6.1, bearing build number 6A1030, and Apple Configurator 1.7 beta 6.
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36 Comments
Public Beta 3 isn't available yet
Not seeing anything new on the Developer side except Xcode 6.1b2 and Configurator 1.7. This often takes awhile to roll out across the net. Sometimes I see it before any announcement in AI and sometimes it is 12-18 hrs later. My time line is not that critical (yet) so I can live with a day but always do like to see what has changed (as everyone else on this site seems too also).
Cheers.
In the previous build I had some weird issue with apps installed from mounted disk images via drag and drop to the Application folder (either directly or to the alias on the mounted disk) would never completely copy and I had to delete the failed app and copy the app to the desktop first then the Applications folder before it would work. It looks like it has been fixed in this build.
Noticing that gmail responses are broken in the mail app. Hit reply, nothing.
App store under DP7 picked it up on my machine BEFORE AI's post. I have not yet installed as I always make a clone before installing the next DP. Once that is done, I will install. I do note that there is a firmware update pkg associated with DP8, but have no idea as to what they are updating.