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Mac OS X 10.5.3 To Fix Over 200 Bugs, Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-meantime-use-deet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MacScoop reports that 'Apple has seeded several builds of its Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update to developers during the past few weeks and just seeded yet another one numbered "9D34" earlier today.' The update fixes over two hundred bugs, weighs almost half a gigabyte and should be available soon."

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  1. Leopard has been fine for me by Thornburg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just to contrast the "great, because 10.5 has been so buggy for me" posts:

    I've been using 10.5 on two different machines for quite some time now, and I have had not had very many problems at all, and none since the 10.5.2 update.

  2. Fixes by WilyCoder · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a compiled list of fixes in 10.5.3.

  3. Re:Big Creepy Crawlies... by Halo1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple does do delta updates.

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  4. Re:Just 200 bugs? by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Informative

    OS X uses quite a bit of OSS stuff. There's a good chance that a good portion of these bugs aren't theirs.

    http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html
    I see 3 vulnerabilities in Apache 2 right there.

    My Leopard install is showing "OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006" while my Debian machine is showing "OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007". I imagine there might be a few bugs there, and it's late enough that it wouldn't have been released close enough to be included in 10.5.0.

    Lets see in /usr/(s)bin, zip, gunzip, tar, efax, cron, ip6config, postfix, cups. No chance they had any bugs. They're good open source software.

    Responding to you and the guy below, the reason that these bugs are 'so big' is that Apple isn't sending out a bunch of .diff files as updates. If they're upgrading Apache 2 they have to recompile as a universal binary and send out that entire file.

  5. Audio Problems in 10.5.2... by weston · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some recent discussion on audio in Leopard:

    http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/leopard/

    Now, note in particular that Digidesign's struggles aren't limited to Leopard (see, for example "Digidesign and M-Audio Drivers Fail to Keep Pace with Vista, Leopard, and XP SP3") -- I personally think Digi as a company has a problem. But they're not the only vendor mentioning audio issues in 10.5.2, and there are others like MOTU who haven't been explicitly complaining but have had product release delays (DP 6 was supposed to be out Q2).

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  6. Re:Just 200 bugs? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Informative
    Which 200 bugs are they talking about?

    Here is a list

  7. Re:A few corrections to OP by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go to the next starbucks and do it there Pretty tough to get an iMac in there, no?

    Seriously, where in the more or less developed world where people can afford Macs do you still have a per megabyte limited internet. Residential Internet connections in at least New Zealand and Australia still have low monthly caps (by world standards) on bandwidth to the American and Eurasian continents.
  8. Re:I hope they finally fixed IPv6 now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Posting as Anonymous Coward because I've already modded this thread and don't want to waste the mod points, but I also want to be helpful.

    You can quite easily configure static IPv6 addresses via System Preferences. It's not all that hard. Here's how:

    1. Open System Preferences.
    2. Click on the Network preference pane. (Optionally, select or create a location from the Location drop-down.)
    3. Select the network interface you wish to assign a static IPv6 address.
    4. Click Advanced...
    5. Depending on the interface (e.g. Airport), you may need to select the TCP/IP tab, if it is not selected by default (e.g. Ethernet).
    6. Change the Configure IPv6 drop-down from Automatically to Manually.
    7. Input your settings for Router, IPv6 Address, and Prefix Length.

    That wasn't so hard, now was it?

  9. Re:Aluminium Keyboard Update Bug by FrankDeath · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had the same problem. You're not actually completing the installation. Download the fix from Apple's download page (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/) and run the update manually.

  10. Re:I hope it's true by corser · · Score: 5, Informative

    I had a similar issue. I could duplicate it by the following
    1. Turn on full screen visualization in iTunes
    2. Stop the music (or otherwise have iTunes to nothing)
    3. Allow the computer to start the screen saver (or turn off the monitor )
    4. Wake up the screen
    If will now be exited from the visualization but the dock will be missing. My guess is that starting a full screen app sets a flag to hide the dock and the method I describe bypasses setting it back.
    I was able to get the dock back by going into full screen visualization and then exiting it.
    (* trying it again right now to make sure I'm not a liar)

  11. Re:What's wrong with Spaces by AlpineR · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think Anonymous Grump is referring to a hidden preference:

    Disable Space switching on Command-Tab in 10.5.2

    That might solve your problem of Command-Tab'ing to an application without changing Space. For me, I tend to open applications with the mouse. It'd be nice if I could tell Terminal and Camino to default to opening a new window on the current Space rather than transporting me to an open window on another Space. But I'm slowly forming the habit of opening new windows with right-clicks instead.

  12. Re:Service pack 3? by Phroggy · · Score: 3, Informative

    People still have dial up? I expect that Apple would ship disks on request but I wouldn't expect them for free. I've never had Apple refuse a reasonable service request but I've never asked for that. You can also stop in at an Apple Store if there's one in your area, and they'll usually give you a copy for free, from what I understand.
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  13. Re:Friendly Reminders by ratbag · · Score: 5, Informative

    And as an anecdotal rebuttal to all that, I've personally updated two machines from Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard and my family at large has done Jaguar -> Panther -> Tiger -> Leopard on G5s, PowerBooks, MBs, MBPs and MacPros, using a wide range of software (we're all photography buffs, one of us is a designer, two of us are developers, one MacPro is still running Tiger). Backup, upgrade. If you have problems, do a clean install. But so far we've done just fine with upgrades, thanks.

  14. Re:Service pack 3? by 1729 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's Apple's take on this:

    gestaltSystemVersionMajor
          The major system version number.
          For example, in 10.4.12, this would be the decimal value 10. Available in Mac OS X v10.3 and later.
          Declared in Gestalt.h

    gestaltSystemVersionMinor
          The minor system version number. For example, in 10.4.12, this would be the decimal value 4.
          Available in Mac OS X v10.3 and later.
          Declared in Gestalt.h

    gestaltSystemVersionBugFix
          The bug fix version number. For example, in 10.4.12, this would be the decimal value 12.
          Available in Mac OS X v10.3 and later.
          Declared in Gestalt.h From http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Gestalt_Manager/Reference/reference.html.