Apple Releases Second OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Public Beta

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the second beta of OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan to public beta testers, just days after releasing the second beta to developers and a week and a half after seeding the first public beta. Today's second beta comes just after the public launch of OS X El Capitan.

The beta is available to those who are participating in Apple's Beta Testing program and can be downloaded through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.

The first beta of OS X 10.11.1 introduced support for Unicode 8 and new emoji like taco, burrito, cheese wedge, hot dog, middle finger, and unicorn head. The emoji are also included in iOS 9.1, which is also in testing.

Beyond new emoji, there have been no other outward-facing changes discovered, suggesting OS X 10.11.1 is a minor update that will bring bug fixes and performance enhancements. According to Apple's release notes, OS X 10.11.1 offers stability, compatibility, and security improvements.

Article Link: Apple Releases Second OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Public Beta

 

[myname70]

Updated to 10.11.1 Beta (15B22c). All fine for now. No visual changes

 

[eji]

So here's something funky: My 2011 17" MBP did a firmware update as part of the beta update. No doubt about it — weird beep, then firmware progress bar, then double restart before finishing the software install.

 

[BornAgainMac]

The only problem I have seen is connecting to Exchange. I hope in the next couple of updates, it gets fixed. Focus on getting that middle finger emoji tested in beta and getting that released. Outlook 2016 as a workaround for now.

 

[patch5674]

Is anyone still having inconsistent wake from sleep issues, particularly when the computer enters sleep whilst still open. Had them throughout all beta stages and remained and issue in the GM and 10.11.1 beta

 

[Old Muley]

The middle finger emoji will come in handy.

 

[AngerDanger]

Downloading n—wait, gotta be in the spirit of things…

 

[H2SO4]

Me I can’t get mail search to work properly. Maybe it’s down to Spotlight needing another index?

 

[Populus]

Is there a way to make a clean install of this second beta of 10.11.1? Do I have to be on 10.11.0?

I'm on the beta program, by the way. Currently I'm on 10.10.4

 

[Four oF NINE]

Are any of you downloading to the 12 inch MacBook retina?

 

[4God]

Hopefully this fixes problems with Core Image.

 

[kryten42]

656MB here, downloading now.

 

[kryten42]

Update installed. Let's see how stable this is after using it for a while. Mostly hoping for Office 2016 stability, but that may well need MS to update Office.

 

[HenryDJP]

I don't understand this. El Captian GM was released yesterday to the public. Why is Apple sending updates to the Beta testers still? Why aren't these beta testers using the GM street version?

 

[Wtillman]

I will get the beta once i say my membership on Apple.com

 

[redheeler]

So here's something funky: My 2011 17" MBP did a firmware update as part of the beta update. No doubt about it — weird beep, then firmware progress bar, then double restart before finishing the software install.

My 2010 iMac did the same installing the 10.11 official release yesterday. A beep usually means a hardware issue, so it had me scared for a moment!

Is there a way to make a clean install of this second beta of 10.11.1? Do I have to be on 10.11.0?

I'm on the beta program, by the way. Currently I'm on 10.10.4

You have to be on 10.11. Afterward, you can download the Public Beta access utility from here and update to 10.11.1.

 

[Norbs12]

I don't understand this. El Captian GM was released yesterday to the public. Why is Apple sending updates to the Beta testers still? Why aren't these beta testers using the GM street version?

You need to move back to the regular update channel in order to stop receiving the public betas.

It's under 'System Preferences' > 'App Store'

 

[BittenApple]

I don't understand this. El Captian GM was released yesterday to the public. Why is Apple sending updates to the Beta testers still? Why aren't these beta testers using the GM street version?

its 11.1.1

 

[inkswamp]

The middle finger emoji will come in handy.

Yeah, and I'll have lots of time to use it since El Capitan's SMB implementation is still ridiculously sluggish. Listing a freakin' directory takes 1-2 minutes when browsing on a Windows file share. Older Macs and Windows PCs list it in a matter of seconds.

I am so thoroughly disgusted with Apple right now that they wasted time on frivolous stuff like emojis and yet didn't have time to fix their STILL broken file browsing. Really having a serious debate with myself whether Apple is worth continuing to support. They don't seem to have rational priorities for OS X anymore.

 

[SASouth]

My 2010 iMac did the same installing the 10.11 official release yesterday. A beep usually means a hardware issue, so it had me scared for a moment!

You have to be on 10.11. Afterward, you can download the Public Beta access utility from here and update to 10.11.1.

My 2011 15" Macbook Pro had a firmware update as well. I wonder what it fixed?

 

[gigapocket1]

Pretty soon.. Apple will be sending out updates and tweaks daily or weekly. Installing system changes in the background. Similar to how iOS install app updates automatically when plugged into the wall

 

[-hh]

Me I can’t get mail search to work properly. Maybe it’s down to Spotlight needing another index?

Not sure, but for my household, it is getting closer to "Spotlight sucks even WORSE ... what other tools are there?"

Case in point ... when trying a keyword search by document name to find a file you know you have and have used recently, the results are garbage. You know that Apple is getting worse when the OS X search function can't find it while MS-Word can.

In the words of my wife, when she's doing a Spotlight search, she is very specifically looking for a document that she knows resides on this particular machine ... as such, all off-machine internet search results is unwanted junk.

I've quickly looked through some of the Searchlight options, but it doesn't appear to be particularly user-friendly in having it do what I want, which namely is to find files on THIS machine.

Hey Apple, if I want to search the internet, I'll go open a browser and use a search engine to do so ... don't need the redundancy --- and UI damage --- that comes from trying to make Spotlight into a "Do Everything".

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Glad to see the emoji team has been hard at it, burning the midnight oil, workin round the clock, keeping everyone firing on all cylinders.

 

[boast]

I am so thoroughly disgusted with Apple right now that they wasted time on frivolous stuff like emojis and yet didn't have time to fix their STILL broken file browsing. Really having a serious debate with myself whether Apple is worth continuing to support. They don't seem to have rational priorities for OS X anymore.

You really think the software developers working on Finder are also making the emojis?

 

[inkswamp]

You really think the software developers working on Finder are also making the emojis?

Did I say that? I'm saying someone at Apple felt adding emojis was important but not fixing some basic, productivity-killing network issues that have been present in OS X for years.