Apple Releases 10.3.5

derphilipp writes "Apple just released 10.3.5 via software update. On the list of changes were - among others - new graphic card drivers, support for reading filesystems and a better samba support. Its size is 43 MB and its available via softwareupdate. Happy updating." Update: 08/09 22:46 GMT by T : EverLurking writes to note that Apple has also released the 5.3MB "'Security Update 2004-08-09' for OS 10.3.4 (along with OS Update 10.3.5) via software update that patches the security hole in the libpng libraries that could crash applications opening up malformed PNG images."

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libPNG also updated

[Hungus]

Interestingly not part of the 10.3.5 update, but separate, is the libPNG update described below

libpng (Portable Network Graphics) Fixes CAN-2002-1363, CAN-2004-0421, CAN-2004-0597, CAN-2004-0598, CAN-2004-0599

Impact: Malicious PNG images can cause application crashes and could execute arbitrary code

Description: A number of buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences and integer overflows have been discovered in the reference library for reading and writing PNG images. These vulnerabilities have been corrected in libpng which is used by the CoreGraphics and AppKit frameworks in Mac OS X. After installing this update, applications that use the PNG image format via these frameworks will be protected against these flaws.

Just installed it...

[boredMDer]

Just installed this on my G3 iBook, seems to have all gone okay.

No major speed increases it seems, but I swear the dock seems a bit more responsive then it did before. This is with 384 MB RAM, by the way.

Before the dock would stutter when I opened up my normal amount of apps on boot (6, 7), but now it responds smoothly when I roll my mouse over it (magnification on) and the icons are bouncing.

12" 1.33Ghz PowerBook owners, rejoice!

[General Sherman]

Maybe I'm just insane, but 10.3.5 has finally fixed the problem where the third or fourth 3D app launched would have seriously negative performance. It also nudges up the 3D performance in general, instead of getting 70FPS in BZFlag I now get 85.

You rock apple.

Funny they mention Comcast

[TheHonestTruth]

I had a bitch of a time getting Comcast modem set up under WinXP. After calling comcast and having them troubleshoot it for 20 minutes, during a reboot I said "it's too bad you guys don't support set up under Macs." The tech replied, "what do you mean? Sure we do." "Yeah, but not OS X, right?" "No, we support 9 and X." Popped the disc in my iBook, 1, 2, 3 done. Much easier than my Win machine.

-truth

RAID changes

[scruffyMark]

Looks like there might finally be RAID 5 in the works in OS X. No mention of it in any documentation I've seen, but (!!!) among the installed files with 10.3.5 are:

• /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app/Contents/PlugIns/RAID.dumodule/(...)
• /System/Library/Extensions/MegaRAID.kext/(...)
• /usr/sbin/megaraid
• /usr/share/man/man8/megaraid.8

None of the megaraid stuff is in 10.3.4. The disk utility plugin was there, it's just been updated.

The megaraid manpage seems to indicate support for RAID level 5; but the GUI in disk utility still only offers the old 0 and 1.

So, does anyone know - does the megaraid command support more features than the kernel extension has available yet, or is it just that the GUI isn't there yet? Maybe they just don't put a GUI on it except in the server edition (sneaky buggers!) - anyone with OS X server out there that can check?

And, in general - anyone out there with a bunch of blank disks they can play around with and see if they can make a RAID 5 set?

If anyone has OS X server around, and if they're interested, these md5 sums are from the regular OS X; maybe we could compare results:

807ecfca34f30598207553f1e4a15d28 /usr/sbin/megaraid
8cc344ea9edce9138acf8803e267e3f6 /System/Library/Extensions/MegaRAID.kext/Contents/ MacOS/MegaRAID