Fifth build of OS X 10.11 El Capitan supplied to Apple's public beta testers
Apple on Tuesday pushed out the fifth public beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan, its forthcoming major update for the Mac operating system, scheduled to launch this fall as a free update.
Members of Apple's public beta program can now download the update via the Mac App Store. Because it is pre-release software with bugs yet to be resolved, Apple advises users not to run El Capitan as their main operating system.
Users can opt in to Apple's Beta Software Program at the company's website. It's available for both OS X and iOS.
Tuesday's update arrives two weeks after the fourth public beta of OS X 10.11. The new public beta release is a somewhat strange move for Apple, arriving before an anticipated new developer beta.
Developers remain on their sixth beta of OS X El Capitan, which was released on Aug. 3 --?one day before the fourth public beta became available.
OS X 10.11 El Capitan is somewhat of a polish of last year's OS X 10.10 Yosemite update, refining things that were previously introduced. However, there are a handful of new features in the next-generation Mac update, including Split View, a better Mission Control, and various performance improvements such as Metal graphics processing.
Members of Apple's public beta program can now download the update via the Mac App Store. Because it is pre-release software with bugs yet to be resolved, Apple advises users not to run El Capitan as their main operating system.
Users can opt in to Apple's Beta Software Program at the company's website. It's available for both OS X and iOS.
Tuesday's update arrives two weeks after the fourth public beta of OS X 10.11. The new public beta release is a somewhat strange move for Apple, arriving before an anticipated new developer beta.
Developers remain on their sixth beta of OS X El Capitan, which was released on Aug. 3 --?one day before the fourth public beta became available.
OS X 10.11 El Capitan is somewhat of a polish of last year's OS X 10.10 Yosemite update, refining things that were previously introduced. However, there are a handful of new features in the next-generation Mac update, including Split View, a better Mission Control, and various performance improvements such as Metal graphics processing.
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Might have been because it was intended to release Dev Build first.. ??
It was pulled.. if you didn't get it by now it's not showing up anymore ..
Might have been because it was intended to release Dev Build first.. ??
Just checked and Dev Build beta 6 has been released, installing it now.
No update for me, sitting on the third PB (built 15A243d).
From there still some work is to be done. Beachballs all around, Mail and Safari hanging, and quite a number of smaller issues.
Are Apple's own apps on Metal now? Are Normal apps that comply with Apple's Dev guidelines taking advantage of Metal automatically? Like window manager, aqua or whatever it's called now adays.
I'm seeing no dev update, strange.
EDIT: Oh I see what you meant now, you just found a dev version that has been there a while, not a new one today ... gotcha.
We're on 15A244d since Aug. 3.
Why would they stick to "last year's schedulle"? The schedulle for each OS release is very different depending on the list of features and setbacks. They don't follow a strict deadline that is the same for every release.
And it wouldn't make sense to release a public and dev build that's a beta if they internally have GM.
We're on 15A244d since Aug. 3.
That's the Dev, not the Public.
Yes.
If it was released it is gone now. "No updates available" on this end.
Available this evening in the UK - if anyone cares.
Regards, lim
7-th seed now for testers.