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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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
A bug causing a game to not render the background correctly is "important", but security fixes et al are not?
Everything is running without a hitch, and using the computer even feels a lot snappier!
And I haven't even installed the update yet!