Apple seeds OS X 10.11.4 to developers with minor bug fixes

Apple on Monday issued a second beta version of its upcoming OS X 10.11.4 software update to developers, continuing a two-week release pattern established earlier in January.

Posted to Apple's developer portal on Monday, build 15E33e appears to contain minor first-party app enhancements like password protected Notes and bug fixes. The accompanying release notes state OS X 10.11.4 "improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac."

Like the first beta, today's version comes with secure Notes to coincide with the same feature on iOS 9.3, as well as Live Photo viewing in Messages. Live Photos was introduced last year as an iPhone 6s exclusive, and while users of other iOS devices could view the special moving image files directly from Messages, Mac owners were forced to go through the Photos app.

In the new El Capitan betas, Live Photos show up in the Messages timeline and can be viewed in a preview window by double clicking on the image. The pop-up window includes both sound and motion, as well as options to open the Live Photo in Photos for editing and review.

The first OS X 10.11.4 beta was released two weeks ago, days prior to a public beta version.

Developers can access OS X 10.11.4 beta 2 through Apple's developer portal or the Mac App Store's Software Update mechanism.

6 Comments

appex 11 Years · 670 comments

About 8 years ago

It is build 15E33e, not 15E27e.

christophb 15 Years · 1479 comments

If VPNs are a requirement be cautious. Last 10.11.4 killed Cisco AnyConnect and some Checkpoint VPN Clients. New signing requirements caused a decent number of network apps to malfunction. Check forums before installing.

macxpress 16 Years · 5913 comments

christophb said:

If VPNs are a requirement be cautious. Last 10.11.4 killed Cisco AnyConnect and some Checkpoint VPN Clients. New signing requirements caused a decent number of network apps to malfunction. Check forums before installing.

I'm using 10.11.3 and have no absolutely no issues with the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. Its never been an issue since upgrading to 10.11.

MacPro 18 Years · 19845 comments

christophb said:

If VPNs are a requirement be cautious. Last 10.11.4 killed Cisco AnyConnect and some Checkpoint VPN Clients. New signing requirements caused a decent number of network apps to malfunction. Check forums before installing.

Thanks for that. This is why I always make a Carbon Copy Clone sparce disk image file of my nMac Pro's internal drive before every update. The (one and only) advantage of the tiny internal SSDs in the new Mac Pros is how quickly this can be done. I have tons of such images on an external RAID and CCC makes restoring them should the need arise a snap.