Dude like me, there are tens of thousands of users that still evoke Dashboard on a daily basis. It's, IMHO, one of the most useful features on OSX. It'll be a shame if Cook and his gang one day decides to axed it.
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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7
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Dude like me, there are tens of thousands of users that still evoke Dashboard on a daily basis. It's, IMHO, one of the most useful features on OSX. It'll be a shame if Cook and his gang one day decides to axed it.
They have removed the Dock options from the Apple menu. They can now be accessed by right-clicking the Dock itself.
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Dude, are you running your SSD in a quantum Turing machine or something? You need to hook some of us mortals up with that tech.
How long does the install take. Been sat on 1% for last 10 mins. Oh, never mind it moved a tiny bit. 15 mins remaining.
Please can someone post an image of their Airport Utility icon? Some people saying it's updated but I'm still seeing the one from pre-Yosemite, :/
While id classify the current beta as "not bad", it usually takes Apple a .1 release to really make things smooth.
Thanks for the confirmation.I'm one of them. But it's usually to check flight status, make notes, check the calendar or weather or something along those lines. All of that functionality is probably going to end up in the Today view, making it a pretty obvious replacement for the dashboard in my usage patterns.
DP 7 Release notes
OS X Yosemite Seed Note
Introduction
OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 is pre-release software. Do not use this pre-release software in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data while using the software.
Please be aware that you will not be able to revert back to your previous system after updating. Please install this update on a system you are prepared to erase if necessary.
If an installation of OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 fails, try using Disk Utility from a Recovery HD to repair the disk.
Developer Preview System Requirements
The OS X Yosemite Developer Preview supports the following Macs:
- iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
- MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
Notes and Known Issues
Installation Known Issue
- Users with automatic installation of updates enabled will not be automatically logged in after reboot from installing Developer Preview 7. If FileVault is enabled, the system will shut down if the user does not log in shortly after reboot.
Family Sharing Known Issues
- Shared purchase history pages on Mac App Store and iOS App Store are disabled.
- Items already owned by family members must be re-downloaded from the Purchased page (not Store pages) to get them free of additional charge.
Gatekeeper Note
- Signatures created with OS X v10.8.5 or earlier (v1 signatures) are obsoleted and will no longer be recognized by Gatekeeper. To ensure your apps will run on updated versions of OS X they must be signed using the codesign tool on OS X v10.9 or later (v2 signatures). For more information, see OS X Code Signing In Depth.
Handoff Known Issues
- Using Handoff to pass an untitled TextEdit document between two Macs may not work. Saving the document first and waiting 5-10 seconds before attempting Handoff may resolve this issue.
iCloud Drive Note
- Migrating to iCloud Drive will disable Documents & Data syncing for your iCloud account on OS X Mavericks and earlier Macs, as well as iOS 7 and earlier devices.
Aperture Note
- Only Aperture 3.5.1 will run on OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7. Older versions of Aperture will not launch.
Aperture Known Issues
- Text and other UI elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons may be clipped or not display properly.
- Importing and exporting images, adjustments, and book PDF generation may be slower.
- Thumbnails and images may occasionally be out of sync when in Split Browser mode.
- Printing a book to Preview from the local printing dialog may result in an error.
- Adjustment and zoom sliders may not respond to single clicks and need to be dragged to operate.
- Leica Monochrom RAW images are not supported.
- The Auto-stack slider may be slow to respond.
iPhoto Note
- Only iPhoto 9.5.1 will run on OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7. Older versions of iPhoto will not launch.
iPhoto Known Issues
- Text and other UI elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons may be clipped or not display properly.
- Images shared to Twitter and Messages may be rendered at a reduced size.
- Application window may not be restored to its original size after exiting Full Screen view.
- iPhoto may quit unexpectedly when entering Full Screen mode.
Safari Notes
- Subpixel rendering is now on by default for all web content. Websites or in-app web views with extremely tight design constraints may render differently.
- In OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7, CSS object model getters Element.client{Left,Top,Width,Height} and Element.offset{Left,Top,Width,Height} will return rounded double values based on subpixel layout and rendering metrics instead of fractional values. Element.scroll{Left,Top,Width,Height} will return integral values.
Safari Known Issues
- Safari may stop responding while loading video when playing Netflix content.
- On certain machines, some forms of protected content, such as Netflix, may fail to play back. To resolve, hold down Option during the next reboot and select your OS X Yosemite partition.
Tools Notes
- In Developer Preview 7, unsigned or improperly signed kexts will not be loaded. To use unsigned kexts during development, this strict check can be disabled by adding a kext-dev-mode=1 boot arg.
- AVFoundation changes the way some ID3 metadata values are represented as AVMetadataItems for binaries that are linked with the Developer Preview 7 SDK.
- Installing kernel extensions on systems running Developer Preview 7 may make your system un-bootable. To fix the issue, boot into the Recovery Partition and run the following:
⁃ touch /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>/System/Library/Extensions
⁃ kextcache -u /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>
- In OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 and iOS 8.0 beta 5, the NSURLSessionTask class provides a new priority property. Complete usage details are available in the NSURLSession.h header file, provided by the Foundation framework.
- URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: might return nil when running your application in Xcode. If so, open System Preferences, navigate to iCloud > iCloud Drive, and enable Xcode.
- Developer Preview 7 includes new APIs to create CIContext objects that use the second GPU on Mac Pro hardware.
- App extensions for OS X are always run as 64-bit code. You will need to build your extensions, and any shared frameworks they depend upon, to include 64-bit support.
Tools Known Issues
- Some python modules may fail to install.
Other Known Issues
- Some text may not be localized to the selected system language.
- Some languages may have clipped or misaligned layout.
Auto-Submission of Diagnostic and Usage Data
By default, OS X Yosemite Developer Preview builds automatically send anonymous diagnostic and usage data back to Apple. This includes information about crashes, freezes, kernel panics, and information about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services. This information is used to help Apple improve the quality and performance of its products and services. The preference is cleared in this seed. This will allow the collection of anonymous diagnostic and usage data to help deliver a high quality release for our customers. If necessary, this setting can be disabled in the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy preferences pane.
Bug Reporting
This build is being provided to you for testing and development purposes. Should you encounter any problems, submit a bug report using the online Bug Reporter at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Please make sure to include 10.10 (14A343f) in the bug title and description. This information will ensure that your bug is processed quickly.
When submitting a bug report, make sure to include a Summary, Steps to Reproduce, Expected Results, Actual Results, and the diagnostic output generated by running sudo sysdiagnose in Terminal, or use the special key chord Control-Option-Command-Shift-Period.
For complete instructions on submitting bug reports, visit the Bug Reporting page at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/.
Thank you for your support,
Worldwide Developer Relations
Apple, Inc.
Legal Notices
The pre-release software identified above is Apple Confidential Information and your use of such software is subject to your Registered Apple Developer Agreement and Mac Developer Program License Agreement. Distributing such pre-release software to anyone other than another Registered Apple Developer who is working for the same entity as you is considered a violation of your agreement with Apple and is damaging to both Apple and those who develop for the Apple platform. We sincerely appreciate your efforts to keep this pre-release software Confidential. You agree that you will not export or reexport any of the software or Confidential Information received from Apple (a) into (or to a national or resident of) any U.S. embargoed countries (currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria) without first obtaining proper authorization from the U.S. Government; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Departments list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List. You also agree that you will not use said software for any purposes where prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, chemical, or biological weapons.
OS X Yosemite Seed Note
Introduction
OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 is pre-release software. Do not use this pre-release software in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data while using the software.
Please be aware that you will not be able to revert back to your previous system after updating. Please install this update on a system you are prepared to erase if necessary.
If an installation of OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 fails, try using Disk Utility from a Recovery HD to repair the disk.
Developer Preview System Requirements
The OS X Yosemite Developer Preview supports the following Macs:
- iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
- MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
Notes and Known Issues
Installation Known Issue
- Users with automatic installation of updates enabled will not be automatically logged in after reboot from installing Developer Preview 7. If FileVault is enabled, the system will shut down if the user does not log in shortly after reboot.
Family Sharing Known Issues
- Shared purchase history pages on Mac App Store and iOS App Store are disabled.
- Items already owned by family members must be re-downloaded from the Purchased page (not Store pages) to get them free of additional charge.
Gatekeeper Note
- Signatures created with OS X v10.8.5 or earlier (v1 signatures) are obsoleted and will no longer be recognized by Gatekeeper. To ensure your apps will run on updated versions of OS X they must be signed using the codesign tool on OS X v10.9 or later (v2 signatures). For more information, see OS X Code Signing In Depth.
Handoff Known Issues
- Using Handoff to pass an untitled TextEdit document between two Macs may not work. Saving the document first and waiting 5-10 seconds before attempting Handoff may resolve this issue.
iCloud Drive Note
- Migrating to iCloud Drive will disable Documents & Data syncing for your iCloud account on OS X Mavericks and earlier Macs, as well as iOS 7 and earlier devices.
Aperture Note
- Only Aperture 3.5.1 will run on OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7. Older versions of Aperture will not launch.
Aperture Known Issues
- Text and other UI elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons may be clipped or not display properly.
- Importing and exporting images, adjustments, and book PDF generation may be slower.
- Thumbnails and images may occasionally be out of sync when in Split Browser mode.
- Printing a book to Preview from the local printing dialog may result in an error.
- Adjustment and zoom sliders may not respond to single clicks and need to be dragged to operate.
- Leica Monochrom RAW images are not supported.
- The Auto-stack slider may be slow to respond.
iPhoto Note
- Only iPhoto 9.5.1 will run on OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7. Older versions of iPhoto will not launch.
iPhoto Known Issues
- Text and other UI elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons may be clipped or not display properly.
- Images shared to Twitter and Messages may be rendered at a reduced size.
- Application window may not be restored to its original size after exiting Full Screen view.
- iPhoto may quit unexpectedly when entering Full Screen mode.
Safari Notes
- Subpixel rendering is now on by default for all web content. Websites or in-app web views with extremely tight design constraints may render differently.
- In OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7, CSS object model getters Element.client{Left,Top,Width,Height} and Element.offset{Left,Top,Width,Height} will return rounded double values based on subpixel layout and rendering metrics instead of fractional values. Element.scroll{Left,Top,Width,Height} will return integral values.
Safari Known Issues
- Safari may stop responding while loading video when playing Netflix content.
- On certain machines, some forms of protected content, such as Netflix, may fail to play back. To resolve, hold down Option during the next reboot and select your OS X Yosemite partition.
Tools Notes
- In Developer Preview 7, unsigned or improperly signed kexts will not be loaded. To use unsigned kexts during development, this strict check can be disabled by adding a kext-dev-mode=1 boot arg.
- AVFoundation changes the way some ID3 metadata values are represented as AVMetadataItems for binaries that are linked with the Developer Preview 7 SDK.
- Installing kernel extensions on systems running Developer Preview 7 may make your system un-bootable. To fix the issue, boot into the Recovery Partition and run the following:
⁃ touch /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>/System/Library/Extensions
⁃ kextcache -u /Volumes/<10.10 Partition>
- In OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 and iOS 8.0 beta 5, the NSURLSessionTask class provides a new priority property. Complete usage details are available in the NSURLSession.h header file, provided by the Foundation framework.
- URLForUbiquityContainerIdentifier: might return nil when running your application in Xcode. If so, open System Preferences, navigate to iCloud > iCloud Drive, and enable Xcode.
- Developer Preview 7 includes new APIs to create CIContext objects that use the second GPU on Mac Pro hardware.
- App extensions for OS X are always run as 64-bit code. You will need to build your extensions, and any shared frameworks they depend upon, to include 64-bit support.
Tools Known Issues
- Some python modules may fail to install.
Other Known Issues
- Some text may not be localized to the selected system language.
- Some languages may have clipped or misaligned layout.
Auto-Submission of Diagnostic and Usage Data
By default, OS X Yosemite Developer Preview builds automatically send anonymous diagnostic and usage data back to Apple. This includes information about crashes, freezes, kernel panics, and information about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services. This information is used to help Apple improve the quality and performance of its products and services. The preference is cleared in this seed. This will allow the collection of anonymous diagnostic and usage data to help deliver a high quality release for our customers. If necessary, this setting can be disabled in the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy preferences pane.
Bug Reporting
This build is being provided to you for testing and development purposes. Should you encounter any problems, submit a bug report using the online Bug Reporter at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Please make sure to include 10.10 (14A343f) in the bug title and description. This information will ensure that your bug is processed quickly.
When submitting a bug report, make sure to include a Summary, Steps to Reproduce, Expected Results, Actual Results, and the diagnostic output generated by running sudo sysdiagnose in Terminal, or use the special key chord Control-Option-Command-Shift-Period.
For complete instructions on submitting bug reports, visit the Bug Reporting page at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/.
Thank you for your support,
Worldwide Developer Relations
Apple, Inc.
Legal Notices
The pre-release software identified above is Apple Confidential Information and your use of such software is subject to your Registered Apple Developer Agreement and Mac Developer Program License Agreement. Distributing such pre-release software to anyone other than another Registered Apple Developer who is working for the same entity as you is considered a violation of your agreement with Apple and is damaging to both Apple and those who develop for the Apple platform. We sincerely appreciate your efforts to keep this pre-release software Confidential. You agree that you will not export or reexport any of the software or Confidential Information received from Apple (a) into (or to a national or resident of) any U.S. embargoed countries (currently, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria) without first obtaining proper authorization from the U.S. Government; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Departments list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce Denied Persons List or Entity List. You also agree that you will not use said software for any purposes where prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture, or production of nuclear, missile, chemical, or biological weapons.
Sounds like things are about to get interesting again at Apple. It was a tough time when the Steve was at death's door; nobody wanted to cross him, yet he was unable to exert control. Things seemed to stagnate for a few years.
No, because on a LED screen, the pixel is still backlit the same way it is for white pixels. It's just that the pixel is black.
Was this something that was just introduced in 10.10? Because 10.9.4 isn't doing the same thing. Also, the menu was like that before I hit the Option key. I even rebooted and it was still there without holding option.
Oh, I honestly didn't know that. Well then I guess I will wait until next Tuesday. Thanks!