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Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download
mysqlbytes writes "Apple has posted an anticipated v10.5.8 patch for Mac OS X, updating a number of components in the operating system, one of their last updates to Leopard. The update brings improvements to Safari, Airport, Bluetooth, among others and rolls out the latest OS X security fixes." Worth glancing at are some of the security-related notes on the update.
OS X is dying. Netcraft confirms it.
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Yeah, well just trying using kermit and see what happens.
Why link only the 750 MB Combo update ? People who already have 10.5.7 don't need it, they can just get the 275 MB Update : http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Update
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Sure it is likely the last major update BEFORE Snow Leopard but it is certainly not the last update for leopard.
Also to the person who asked why link to the combo update as opposed to the smaller incremental: In my personal deployment experience the combo updates are much less likely to cause any problems when updating.
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I can't see any reference to the latest BIND vulnerability being fixed by Apple in the Mac OS X Server. It's vulnerable and has been fixed by other vendors so why not?
I did. Now he follows me around singing "It's not easy being green" and complaining that his dick smells like pork.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today (from software updates), and froze mid-installation of the update. When restarted, it would kernel panic saying the kernel signature didn't match the CPU.
I had to restart the mac with the shift key pressed (safe mode) and after aprox. 15 minutes of gray screen with the spinning circle, it restarted itself again and booted up correctly, saying that all is well and 10.5.8 is installed. I am still wary of what might have messed up in the process, but at least this may work for anyone else with the same problem.
He's here all week. Don't forget to try the waiter and tip the veal.
if Leopard will have a long support life since it is the final revision to support Power PC. As an owner of a a few G5's I sure hope so.
I don't understand why they need to force their customers to update to Safari 4, i'm sure a lot of people like safari 3 just fine,
Of course. I have never seen a Windows update causing BSODs that forced me to boot in safe mode and actually go around the drivers/services/etc looking for the reason the OS won't start. That's just science fiction.
My install completed a few minutes ago, and it's definitely much snappier!
What are the units on that measurement? ;-)
Sigh, until the IEEE approves "snaps per second" we're all just going to have to rely on subjective values..
Unfortunately, it looks like nothing important was fixed, either. The OpenGL bug on NVIDIA graphics cards is still there. :/
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I disagree, my system is bogging heavily due to the fact that spotlight has decided to reindex my entire 2 terabyte filesystem.
Reports on macintouch corroborate this behavior.
music lover since 1969
But have you seen him sing this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU
Anyone have any word on the Safari scrolling bugs? It's been a problem since 4.0 (but not with the betas), described and there.
I'll install it, but this takes a day or so to manifest usually. I didn't see anything jump out in the patch notes, but they're kind of sparse on the details anyway.
I like music
That's right. I am incompetent, and so is my wife. Or does the MacOSX problem fit your bias better than the Windows one, therefore making me an incompetent and Microsoft totally cool, while making Apple incompetent and my wife totally cool?
And how am I supposed to be incompetent when all I do is click "Restart" after that nagging window keeps poking me with the fact that it updated a lot of stuff and I need to restart my computer like, right now? Is there any specific highly technical wrist twist I should be doing while clicking on it? Please enlighten me on this subject as I would love to stop having this problem in the future.
For the record, debian has a record of having done this to me on a couple of occasions as well since Bo. You think I should start a class action lawsuit, too?
You need to download the 10.5.8 standalone installer and try it again. On some of the updates (10.5.6, 10.5.7?) your computer is supposed to restart once or twice before it boots up normally. I rarely, if ever, have problems with the standalone installers (the only issue is that they are big downloads).
-HTH
Surprised at the lack of comments, considering the patches cover arbitrary code execution due to many vulnerabilities that even arise when reading png images or xml files!
Luckily there seem to be more talented security researchers and programmers who like the Mac than there are crackers who find it worth the effort.
I still want a mac though!
Safe Boot would clean out caches and re-link dynamic libraries. I believe it also cleans out some of the /var and /tmp and lock files, but that's just an assumption based on the types of problems that I've seen it fix.
100 REM PISS OFF CODE FASCISTS 200 GOTO 100
"Multiple Image Handling Vulnerabilities. ImageIO and Image RAW are both OS X components that help the operating system handle images. Both components suffer from vulnerabilities involving the way they handle various types of images (Canon RAW, OpenEXR, PNG, etc). Though the vulnerabilities differ technically, they share a very similar scope and impact. If an attacker can get a victim to view a specially crafted image (perhaps hosted on a malicious website), he could exploit this flaw to either crash an application or to execute attack code on the victim's computer." was posted on this Australian telco forum http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1256354&p=1
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
A bug causing a game to not render the background correctly is "important", but security fixes et al are not?
Oh boy oh boy can I run it on linux? huh? :)
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
A bug causing a game to not render the background correctly is "important", but security fixes et al are not?
Well, I was exaggerating a bit. Of course security fixes are important. But as a developer of the aforementioned game, I'm kind of more affected by the rendering bug. I mean, when's the last time an OS X security bug has had an exploit in the wild? Compare that to not insignificant number of Warzone players (Windows and Linux are supported, too! Come try one of the most popular FOSS RTSes today!)
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Me, I had to skip 10.5.7 (and let The Sims 3 sit uninstalled, because it required it), because I committed the heinous crime of having my LCD connected via a DVI-HDMI cable.
I and everyone else who'd done so lost most of our resolutions. My 1920x1200 LCD would only run at 1920x1080 interlaced.
This was broken for nearly FOUR MONTHS - and this is not a rare problem, there are THOUSANDS of Google hits on this issue.
But no, you're a Troll.
Everything is running without a hitch, and using the computer even feels a lot snappier!
And I haven't even installed the update yet!
Amongst everything else, the fact that tens of thousands, at the least, of users are unable to use their displays at anywhere near their target resolutions, ever since 10.5.7 was released. I'm amazed that there has not been greater uproar. Bless the RDF.
My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today
There is your problem.
I'm here to help. Remember, always do the following before you point upgrade:
Just callin' it like I see it.
That's right. I am incompetent, and so is my wife. Or does the MacOSX problem fit your bias better than the Windows one, therefore making me an incompetent and Microsoft totally cool, while making Apple incompetent and my wife totally cool?
Dude! Haven't you heard? Apple is the new Microsoft and Microsoft is the new NeXTstep. Get with the program.
Just callin' it like I see it.
Mine appeared to freeze, as well, but I left it alone, and after about 5-10 minutes, it finished, rebooted, and all was well.
How long did you wait to see if it was, indeed, frozen? I was just at the point of considering powering it off, myself, when it continued on its own.
Yeah, and Linux is new Apple along with that reasoning.
YMMV, but I had no trouble using Software Update to get to 10.5.8 on a G31M-ES2L based Hackintosh.
Apple used to steer clear of throwing up unnecessary warning dialogs, but since they screwed up Safari's security with "open safe files after downloading" they don't seem to have figured out that they don't NEED to keep bugging people with warnings. They've turned "open safe files" off by default. They don't need to keep quarantining downloaded files any more.
For a while you could override the system's list of potentially unsafe content types and say "once I've downloaded a file, just effing open it", but that seems to have been broken. As a workaround I've got a folder action that goes through Downloads and removes the comp.apple.quarantine attribute when it finds it, but Finder steals focus from the running application when it triggers so it's a pain in the neck.
Where's the "I'm a bleeding adult, Apple, and I don't want to be part of your Pavlovian experiment in training people to click 'infect me now'" button?
Let me correct what, in retrospect, is probably going to prove to be unfortunate wording.
I predict that some slashtard is going to read "once I've downloaded a file, just effing open it" to mean that I want to turn on the stupid "open safe files" without a dialog. I should have written "once I've downloaded a file, just let me effing open it without whining at me". That clear?
I hope the slashtards bother to read this reply before posting. I suspect some won't.
I update my aging powerbook using the auto-update program. Same problem with the gray screen, but I just ended up leaving it on overnight after which it seems to have fixed itself (I logged in this morning).
Because, of course, "it just works" isn't really all that true, right? Funny, my Software Update never told me to "go download the Combo Update just in case...".
Here on Slashdot we get to complain because our habits in fscking around with our computers make our OS installations edge cases that may fail with any OS upgrade.
You, however, are complaining because a Mac is too complicated for you to use.
people call you a troll, but the fact is you spend much more time on this post then all the other people on theirs, combined.
As for the content, I cannot verify, but it sure is a great laugh!
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If you don't have an understanding of Apple then why bother commenting? Your comments above showed you're so ignorant about the platform that you can't even make an intelligent sarcastic joke about it without screwing it up.
Wow, and you used a Mac all that time and you still got it wrong. So aside from those pesky detail you are spot on.
I had to try twice to get it to acknowledge the update being available for my PowerBook G4 Titanium (though it is a 14.4 Kbps cell modem connection).
Hopefully the Download Only option will work this time. My install disk is for 10.5.0 and I had to reinstall once already to a new 320 GB hard drive(*). I've been having problems with it telling me updates could not be saved (due to a sudden inability to contact the update server) and with "Install and Keep Package" not keeping the package. It's as if some updates you can't retain unless you download them directly from the Apple website and give Apple your e-mail address, and Software Update doesn't tell you which ones.
(*) Disk Utility was telling me it would not repair permissions on certain SUID programs on the original drive that it said had been modified(!) and Carbon Copy Cloner was failing to complete its copies, as was System Migration.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Here you go:
1. Every Apple OS is perfect first try. Why the need for an update?
- I've never heard anyone say this. On Slashdot or off.
2. Security patches. Apple has no security issues, ever. Why the need for an update?
- Never heard anyone say this either. I've heard people say (accurately) that their is no virus for OS X, but never that there are no security issues.
3. Shouldn't Apple charge for this? Like they do with their other service packs.
- Which service pack exactly? 10.5.6? 10.5.3? I didn't get charged for any of those. Which one did you get charged for?
4. Why does this not have a cute animal name?
- You're right, that one was jut funny.
So we've defined the OS equivalents of rock, paper, scissors, and lizard... but who is Spock?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
people call you a troll, but the fact is you spend much more time on this post than all the other people on theirs, combined.
This turn of phrase is familiar to me. Where have I heard its like before? Ah yes:
"Nebraska Diamond sells more engagement and wedding rings than all the other area jewelry stores combined."
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
1. Ummm...you should read closer. According to the iPeople every Apple's OS' is perfect. - I haven't ever seen anyone say this. 2. Ummm...you should read closer. No virus'. (LOL) - There is NO virus for OS X 3. Unless it is jumping to 11, I consider it a service pack. Apple does charge for them. You know all the cute animals. (Yes I know this is a 10.5.X->10.5.Y jump but it still works) - 10.5.7 to 10.5.8 is the OS X equivalent to an MS service pack, and it's free. 10.6 will be a major release and they will charge for that. 4. Cookies are the devil's currency! I will not burn in hell over a cookie!
I didn't wait - I was sleeping as a log. She woke me up AFTER powering it off and on again and getting the kernel panic (no sleep for us married geeks), but now she says that she waited about two minutes. I guess if she had waited longer, it would have finished. Now she'll wait more time next time it happens!
i'm sticking w/10.4 because i'm supporting some g3s (clamshells 4evah;-) & don't want to deal w/2 osXes (i already have 2: fedora & osX)
but more & more apps i'd like to use require leopard...gonna eventually have 2 bite the bullet:-}
i'm running vista on a gaming machine i built last year. no reinstalls, no bluescreens.
your fud though, could use some updating..
Exactly: Everybody should know by now that the default is to just reboot, not show a BSOD.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck