Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available

Fork420 writes "Apple has released the 10.2.2 update. According to Apple: The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20. For detailed information on this Update, please visit http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107140 (when this story was posted, this link was not yet working) Enjoy..."

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Journaling File System

[RobRancho]

is included too! :)

Hopefully they fix...

[sporty]

Hopefully they fixed the mail.app program. If you have only 1 account, and it's imap, you won't see folders on the account. You have to add another account, even a dummy one that has no mail, to see folders of the first imap account. Stupid mail.app proggie.. had me using that stupid enterage program.

10.2.2 Changes

[PatJensen]

Here are the changes in 10.2.2. Enjoy! -Pat

Digital Hub and Peripheral Device Enhancements

• Improves playback of large media files and peripheral device file copying.
• Resolves a rare situation in which an inadvertently-ejected CD cannot be remounted and applications accessing the disc cannot be quit.
• Addresses an issue in which an enhanced CD's data and audio sessions do not appear as expected on the desktop when using iTunes and inserting the disc more than once.
• Addresses a formatting issue that could occur when printing or previewing some TIFF documents.
• Addresses an issue in which ColorSync settings for some third-party displays are not retained after restarting or logging out.
• Addresses an issue when printing more than one copy of a file to a postscript printer from Adobe PhotoShop 7.0.
• Improves compatibility with HP 4MV printers when printing over an Ethernet network.
• Adds support for additional third-party disc burners, including: LaCie d2 48x24x48x, Sony CRX-820E, Toshiba SD-R2212 and SD-R1202, Pioneer DVR-105, and Yamaha CDW-F1 44x24x44x models.

Networking and Modem Enhancements

• SMB shared volumes may now be browsed by their user-assigned name.
• Resolves an issue in which an incorrect "Change Password Failed" message may appear when when changing a Mac OS X 10.2 Server client's password via AFP.
• Addresses an issue in which some internal Apple modems may fail to respond, displaying a "Could not open the communication device" message.
• Addresses an issue in which no sound is produced by some internal Apple modems until several seconds after making a connection.
• Resolves an issue in which some internal Apple modems fail to respond when connecting to the Internet.
• Error and warning dialogs boxes are no longer displayed if you cancel the mounting of an iDisk from the authentication dialog box.
• Addresses a startup issue that could occur if an LDAP server designated in Directory Access is not available.
• Addresses a data loss issue which could occur when copying a file whose filename ends with "#02," or other hexadecimal number, via AFP.
• Available disk space on an iDisk is updated more quickly after deleting files.
• Addresses an issue in which an iDisk would appear with an inaccurate 1GB capacity and 1023 MB available.
• Addresses some issues that could cause a "error -36" alert message when copying files to an iDisk.

Address Book and Mail Enhancements

• Resolves an issue in which Address Book could become unresponsive when using the Large Type menu and switching between applications.
• Address Book can now better import groups from prior versions of Address Book.
• Resolves a potential issue when transferring vcards from Address Book to a cellular phone via Bluetooth.
• Improves Address Book compatibility with users that are already on an AIM Buddy List.
• Allows address information to be imported when dragging vCards to Address Book which were created with Address Book from any version of Mac OS X 10.1.
• Corrects Address Book address format for Australian entries.
• Improves responsiveness when switching in and out of edit mode in the Address Book.
• Address Book entries without a name included now appear in the All group list with the email address as the name, instead of "No Name".
• Addresses the rare issue in which Mail may unexpectedly quit when replying to a message.
• Improves the responsiveness of the Mail application's date column and thread highlighting feature.
• Improves the reliability of transitioning a Mac OS X 10.1.5 Address Book.addressbook to an Address Book for Mac OS X 10.2 format.

Application Enhancements

• Improves compatibility for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that use animations.
• Addresses a potential Disk Copy volume imaging permissions issue that could affect non-Admin users.
• Improves updating of applications installed with Mac OS X, updating them only if they have not been relocated or deleted.
• Addresses a display issue that may occur when Command-clicking a URL in some third-party applications, including BBEdit and Mailsmith.
• Addresses a situation in which the menu bar and Dock are not shown, after quitting a third-party game application, until the desktop is clicked.
• Addresses an issue in which some PDF files created within Mac OS X do not open as expected with Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.
• Reduces occurrences of "missing text" when browsing some web pages.
• Improves compatibility for FAXstf when a fax is being sent while the computer is restarted, shut down, or entering sleep mode.

Other Enhancements

• Provides a foundation for the journalling filesystem (JFS), which may currently be enabled via Disk Utility on Mac OS X Server systems.
• Improves security when using a read-write disk image volume in which "Ignore ownership on this volume" has been deselected.
• Addresses an issue in which automatic Software Update notifications are turned off when upgrading from Mac OS X 10.1 to Mac OS X 10.2.
• Addresses an issue in which, after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2, an unexpected value in a user's com.apple.LaunchServices.plist file could prevent proper startup.
• Addresses a potential kernel panic situation when using three video cards and more than 512 MB of RAM.
• Addresses a potential issue in which an unauthorized user could log in as a deleted user.
• Improves the Find function of the Finder by no longer finding items in invisible folders.
• Reduces the time required for switching between Sherlock channels when using a low-bandwidth connection
• Sherlock channels may now be saved as a file.
• Allows automatic login to work as expected following an Archive and Install.
• Improves time needed to wake some portable computers.
• Addresses a potential loss of video when waking some PowerBooks from sleep after using DVD Player.
• Addresses a potential issue in which the computer does not respond when quitting DVD Player on some portable computers.
• Includes Apache version 1.3.27.
• Addresses a potential security issue in which access to system daemons could be blocked when RFC-based services are enabled.

Re:Mac OSX

[ivan256]

It took me a minute to find the button that was going to give me a context menu. Sigh. I always thought that it was just an old joke/troll but seriously, why?

Because the right-click context menu is a windows-ism, and as such, people who have never used windows don't care. In fact, if you gave them another button they wouldn't use it, much like how windows users don't care they are missing the ever-so-useful middle button.

People who do care plug any old multi-button USB mouse into their mac and forget about it.

Re:Improved Find function?

[dhovis]

Easy work around...

• CMD-F in the finder to bring up the new find dialog box.
• Select "Add Criteria -> visiblity"
• Set visibility to "All"

Voila, you can search invisible files. All this update does is set the default search to visible files only, as it should be.

RAID

[MrChuck]

Hmmm, software raid ain't cutting it and ain't available for RAID 5 (and dearies, RAID 5 is out there, big time - a big win for my friend putting up about a terrabyte/week for their web server farm).

What to do, what to do? /me strokes beard. Hey! How about using "A HARDWARE RAID!"

Why waste your CPU cycles calculating stuff when you can have a dedicated processor taking care of your storage issues?

Call your nearby raid vendor and get a box in. It speaks SCSI, it gives you lots of bonuses. Me? For high performance RAID at a decent price (too much for hobbyists and home users, don't waste your time), try these guys. Just a personal favorite, I'm not part of their company, just a customer.

Why hardware RAID? When your MoBo/CPU/Disk dies and you can't get that software RAID reconfigured, you unplug the hardware RAID, plug it into a new machine and just go.

When you want real speed, those baydel guys have a screaming, mirrored RAM cache so you get to write at 160MB/s.

Jeez, you put all that money into your server and network connections and want to cheap out by using slow IDE disks and your CPU to do all the work?

HFS+? Yeah, I still have it for my Mac Classic II on an 80MB drive.
THanks, I'll use FFS with softupdates or ReiserFS (or XFS mmmmmm) on my real volumes.

For those of you that can't wait to install...

[rworne]

ssh (or telnet if you are daring) into your box:

%su
password:<enter password>
%softwareupdate 3404

(software update progress occurs)

%reboot

You are now updated to 10.2.2

Journalling is good for everyone..

[goombah99]

Journaling is great and you should use it. It's good for both AOL grandmas and for big disk servers. For the average user it means if the worst happens, say you power down in the middle of a file table update, you disk does not get corrupted. this is good for every user.

for the huge disk servers it means when you power up after a crash you dont have to do a full file system check which could take hours on say a 400GB disk.

what is the cost? a very small amount of disk space (about 8 Megs) and about a 15% reduction in write-to-disk performance. There is no penalty for read performance.

Re:10.2.2 - man page killer?

[mithras the prophet]

That's probably been broken for awhile but you didn't notice it. It's a common symptom if you haven't updated Fink for Jaguar. Go follow the update instructions.