Development of Mac OS X 10.4.6 progresses
Mac OS X developers who are members of Apple's Developer Connection received a new set of Mac OS X 10.4.6 pre-release builds earlier this week.
According to various reports, Apple seeded both Mac OS X 10.4.6 build 8I113 (PowerPC) and Mac OS X 10.4.6 built 8I1106 (Intel). The builds are reported to weigh in at approximately 58MB and 149MB, respectively -- representing some of the heftiest updates to the company's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system since its inception last April.
The maintenance and stability update now appears to focus on a broad range of system components and technologies that include AppleScript, Bluetooth, Calculator, Core Graphics, Disc Recording, Disk Management, the Finder, Help Viewer, iDisk usage, iSync, PPP and racoon Networking, Printing, Safari, and Voice over.
Developers were also asked to focus their testing efforts on additional system technologies such as Mac Synching, AFP, Automator, Carbon apps, Cocoa apps, Directory Services, Foundation, Graphics Drivers, Kerberos, Login Window, OpenGL, QuickDraw, SMB and WebDav.
As expected, the Intel build also places an incredible emphasis on the continued development and refinement of Apple's Rosetta emulation environment, which allows most PowerPC-based Mac OS applications to run seamlessly on the company's new Intel-based systems.
Mac OS X 10.4.6 appears to be scheduled for a release sometime within the next six weeks. Currently, documentation accompanying the latest builds lists only a handful of known issues with the software.
According to various reports, Apple seeded both Mac OS X 10.4.6 build 8I113 (PowerPC) and Mac OS X 10.4.6 built 8I1106 (Intel). The builds are reported to weigh in at approximately 58MB and 149MB, respectively -- representing some of the heftiest updates to the company's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system since its inception last April.
The maintenance and stability update now appears to focus on a broad range of system components and technologies that include AppleScript, Bluetooth, Calculator, Core Graphics, Disc Recording, Disk Management, the Finder, Help Viewer, iDisk usage, iSync, PPP and racoon Networking, Printing, Safari, and Voice over.
Developers were also asked to focus their testing efforts on additional system technologies such as Mac Synching, AFP, Automator, Carbon apps, Cocoa apps, Directory Services, Foundation, Graphics Drivers, Kerberos, Login Window, OpenGL, QuickDraw, SMB and WebDav.
As expected, the Intel build also places an incredible emphasis on the continued development and refinement of Apple's Rosetta emulation environment, which allows most PowerPC-based Mac OS applications to run seamlessly on the company's new Intel-based systems.
Mac OS X 10.4.6 appears to be scheduled for a release sometime within the next six weeks. Currently, documentation accompanying the latest builds lists only a handful of known issues with the software.
Comments
I haven't been able to sync wirelessly since 10.4.3...
--> Stephen
Are they going to Fix the Finder?
I know safari is listed there, but I don't see that lazy Mail!
Mail needs a kick up the arse!
Edit: these files play just fine in VLC btw.
Originally posted by Ireland
Mail and Safari are my concerns.
I know safari is listed there, but I don't see that lazy Mail!
Mail needs a kick up the arse!
If your concerns about Mail have to do with the security flaw, just download the latest security update. It fixes Mail and Safari.
Originally posted by Catman4d2
PANTHER STILL OWNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ROCK ON! My comedore 64 is l33t too!
Originally posted by kim kap sol
What's raccoon networking, precioussss, what's raccoon networking?
Good question!
Originally posted by Xool
Good question!
2 raccoons in the park getting some work done!
...or not.
edit- can't seem to find anything useful on google or wikipedia.
Originally posted by TednDi
Dare I say it!!
Are they going to Fix the Finder?
Ahhhh ... that was funny!
Originally posted by kim kap sol
What's raccoon networking, precioussss, what's raccoon networking?
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/ipsec/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ipsec.html
Man Page:
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi...NetBSD-current
Originally posted by SpamSandwich
It would be nice to fix OS 9 support. I haven't been able to even start up OS 9 to run some of my older software in many months. I even tried re-installing the OS 9 system from the OSX disc... Didn't work.
I'd expect OS 9 to be removed from 10.5. If you want OS 9 support your best bet would be Panther or even 10.2.8 which is the oldest development sdk still offered.
I just hope they fix the issues with quicktime crashing on some unreadable avi-files (most work just fine with divx installed)
Quicktime isn't the best for AVI playback. Plug ins such as Divx help.
Part of the problem is people using esoteric AVI codecs. If everyone stuck to more standard and widely used codecs this would not be such a problem.
I doubt Apple is going to spend much time or resources on keeping up with every type of AVI codec out in the wild. As AVI is a Microsoft codec and isn't really a strongly supported Apple codec.