Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan update to developers and public beta testers, one week after releasing the second OS X 10.11.5 beta and a month after releasing OS X 10.11.4, the fourth update to the OS X El Capitan operating system. OS X 10.11.5 has been in testing since April 6.

OS X 10.11.5 beta 3 has a build number of 15F28b and can be downloaded through the software update mechanism in the Mac App Store or through the Apple Developer Center (for developers).

OS X 10.11.5, like prior OS X El Capitan updates, appears to focus on security enhancements, performance improvements, and bug fixes to address issues that have popped up since the release of OS X 10.11.4. No obvious outward-facing changes were discovered in the first two OS X 10.11.5 betas, but we'll update this post if any new features are found in the third beta.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

 

[redheeler]

Happy to see this on front page for once. Downloading, 709 MB.

 

[stonerdt]

I have the Public Beta too. Also downloading at 709 MB.

 

[Kaibelf]

Yup, gone public too. Very fast download thankfully.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Next week or so..

 

[HiRez]

Beachballs? Did they fix the beachballs? What about the constant freakin beachballs on every one of my Macs running El Capitan, Apple??? So frustrating.

 

[C DM]

Next week or so..

What is that about?

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

What is that about?

Let's hope it;s out in a week or so.

 

[Fzang]

Just in time! Beta 2 broke Eduroam.

 

[gsmornot]

Beachballs? Did they fix the beachballs? What about the constant freakin beachballs on every one of my Macs running El Capitan, Apple??? So frustrating.

My beachballs are working fine here.

 

[navaira]

Not available in the NL yet.

I don't actually know why I get excited about the betas seeing as I never notice any differences. My fetish for new'n'shiny I guess.

 

[Scary Spice]

Super SMOOOTH™ on all my machines....

Especially the beachball animation. (no more flickering and the pointer INSTANTLY changes to the beachball... not the rude pause of versions past)

 

[Klaatu63]

Not available in the NL yet.

I don't actually know why I get excited about the betas seeing as I never notice any differences. My fetish for new'n'shiny I guess.

Not available in New Jersey yet, Must be moving west to east?

 

[Shirasaki]

Beachball.
Both iOS and Mac OS X second beta has mysterious laggy and unresponsive issue.
Hope third beta would fix this.
I am ready to return to beta 3 if feedback is mainly positive or neutral.

 

[MLVC]

Anybody know if this fixes the "freezing" issue that a lot of Macs suffer from since the last El Cap update?

 

[Icaras]

Not showing up for me yet.

 

[Crazy Badger]

The last time I saw a beachball for more than a second (other than an app not responding very infrequently) was when I only had a spinning disk in the machine. Couldn't imaging running without a SSD these days, especially considering how the prices have dropped. All working fine on my 2011 iMac

 

[Parasprite]

Downloading now at 2.3GB

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I really hope Apple ends 10.11 on a high note as I am not sure if they will support Aperture on 10.12 and if not I will stick with 10.11 for many years to come. . .

 

[mdw1]

Not available in New Jersey yet, Must be moving west to east?

No because not in California yet either

 

[JDHiro]

All these betas as stable as the last release, and I never see anything new. Sometimes I think Apple just puts and new version number on it and says "ship it!" (I'm sure they're fixing problems that somebody somewhere has...)

 

[C DM]

Super SMOOOTH™ on all my machines....

Especially the beachball animation. (no more flickering and the pointer INSTANTLY changes to the beachball... not the rude pause of versions past)

Probably more like just SMOOTHER®

 

[navaira]

Still not here in Yurop.

The only beachballs I really get are in Photoshop, but Adobe forums point out that it's their fault – previous version of Creative Cloud was much better and people are downgrading.

 

[AndrewWx]

Funny - its not showing up here either.

 

[Icaras]

So where is the beta update? It's been hours and its still not showing up in the Mac App Store.