Apple Preparing to Begin Seeding OS X 10.8.2 Builds for Testing

[AidenShaw]

There's nothing abnormal to working on multiple branches of software releases. 10.8.1 is probably in a feature freeze and now any new features or "bug" fixes that require more important changes in the code that can impact functionality are being moved to the 10.8.2 branche instead.

This is pretty much normal practices in the industry, where you have your current branch where you continue actively working on adding features and doing bigger fixes and clean ups and your beta branch that keeps getting some smallish fixes in order to get a release out.

I don't quite understand why you're shocked by this.

It's fairly certain that Apple is also working on 10.9, and possibly 10.8.3 as well.

 

[MasterHowl]

Yes, pedantic would be the polite way to describe it. These emails are written by software managers excited about their work, not marketing or PR managers, and emailed to a pre-selected group of beta testers. Believe me when one receives one of these emails the only thing read is "new version," and "download." No one is lollygagging, counting punctuation marks or otherwise over-analyzing the message.

Sorry if I caused you any offence! None meant

 

[dank414]

It's called the Appleseed program and has been around for a long time.

How does one join this program?

 

[milo]

How does one join this program?

Apple contacts you, there's no way to volunteer yourself. Best shot is probably making helpful posts on apple's support boards.

 

[amajtheory]

Mountain Lion and Logic Pro 9.1.7

Does anyone use Logic Pro 9.1.7, if so, does Logic crash? I've had this issue since upgrading to Mountain Lion 10.8 and 10.8.1. Does anyone have a fix for this issue?