Apple issues third macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra beta to developers

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in macOS edited October 2017
Hot on the heels of Monday's slate of beta software releases, Apple on Tuesday issued a third beta version of macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra to developers for testing.




The latest macOS High Sierra beta, build 17B42a, appears to contain only minor bug fixes and performance improvements, according to Apple's release notes.

Like the recent iOS 11.1 and watchOS 4.1 builds, today's macOS High Sierra release offers support for new emoji characters accessible in Messages and other apps.

Apple last updated macOS High Sierra earlier this month with a supplemental release designed to patch critical Disk Utility and Keychain vulnerabilities. The update also fixed a mail deletion issue in Mail and a graphical bug seen when using Adobe InDesign.

Apple's next-generation Mac operating system debuted in September with marquee features like the new Apple File System (APFS), support for Metal 2 graphics, H.265 integration, an improved Safari experience and more.





Developers can access macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra beta 3 by visiting Apple's developer portal.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,718member
    Must be rolling across the country, no sign in central west Florida yet.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,718member
    Requires new developer signing certificate. 
    Soli
  • Reply 3 of 7
    It now offers to convert my early iMac 27 5K Fusion Boot disk to APFS (last few betas didn't).  I am going opt out until I hear some success stories.

  • Reply 4 of 7
    stpatstpat Posts: 13member
    I've had nothing but issues with the new release. Things like Mail opening, but only headers visible, apps hanging all over the place and forcing me to kill them, network issues. I hope they stop worrying about emojis and get the core system stuff working. Things did improve with Parallels after I switched off the Hard disk sleeping. Before I did that it was constantly hanging and forcing me to hard shut down and restart the machine.

    Hindsight is 20/20, I probably would not have upgraded given the issues I'm seeing. 
  • Reply 5 of 7
    wizard69wizard69 Posts: 13,377member
    Hope this fixes a few glitches im seeing.  Fortunately the glitches aren't show stopping.  Sadly i haven't had a lot of "Mac time" lately and have been slow to report bugs.  
  • Reply 6 of 7
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,718member
    stpat said:
    I've had nothing but issues with the new release. Things like Mail opening, but only headers visible, apps hanging all over the place and forcing me to kill them, network issues. I hope they stop worrying about emojis and get the core system stuff working. Things did improve with Parallels after I switched off the Hard disk sleeping. Before I did that it was constantly hanging and forcing me to hard shut down and restart the machine.

    Hindsight is 20/20, I probably would not have upgraded given the issues I'm seeing. 
    Are you referring the developer betas or the public release High Sierra?  I've have to say I've had no issues with the latest betas on either my old 2010 i7 MBP or on a 2014 new Mac Pro 6 Core.   In fact the old MBP seems far happier especially without Safari frying it when on CNN's bloody auto play videos.  What a relief for that to end.
  • Reply 7 of 7
    MacProMacPro Posts: 19,718member

    wizard69 said:
    Hope this fixes a few glitches im seeing.  Fortunately the glitches aren't show stopping.  Sadly i haven't had a lot of "Mac time" lately and have been slow to report bugs.  
    What are the glitches you've seen.  The only one I have is with Unity programs not liking High Sierra (not APFS per se) but I am pretty certain Unity are fixing this their end.
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