Apple Releases Third OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers

[JeffyTheQuik]

Could anyone here tell me how Yosemite looks on a regular screen (non-retina), like an iMac 27"? With all its thinness, thinner fonts etc...

iOS 8 on my 2nd gen iPad looks like crap and I was wondering if the same would go for Yosemite...

It looks different. Nothing overtly crappy, just different.

I like it, just because I like new things, but as always, YMMV.

Mine is a 27" Late 2008 iMac

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Yep, its the world we live in. Games these days for example aren't finished until roughly 3 months after shipping

O/S's are slightly longer.

As we saw with Windows 8 and Vista, sometimes years.

 

[JLL]

Because betas are supposed to be feature complete, every beta is theoretically a candidate for gm. If they find bugs, they release another beta. When you're done fixing bugs, you release a gm and send it to the press. Releasing strings of "gm candidates" is mockery.

Betas have known bugs that needs to be fixed before a GM.

Microsoft is also using Release Candidates before their RTM version.

 

[iBug2]

Examples? Just curious. I can only think of a couple.

Icon view has an extra pixel of vertical gray line between side bar and the contents.

Window resizing still does not work in list view, vertically or horizontally. I can go on.

 

[Edax]

Can't believe my eyes. This one drops the Wifi connection on my 2012 rMBP consistently within a minute. OMG.

 

[Jobs, Steve]

Thank you all for sharing all the bugs still not fixed.

I'll wait for 10.10.1 (maybe 10.10.2) for a clean installation on my Retina MacBook Pro 13".

 

[istvans]

Can't believe my eyes. This one drops the Wifi connection on my 2012 rMBP consistently within a minute. OMG.

i use this as a primary system now, and beside the laggy animations, i'm not experiencing anything. i reinstalled it completely (clean install) when the 1st GM Candidate came out.
so my advice for whom experiencing weird issues to do a clean install.

 

[chiefsucker]

i use this as a primary system now, and beside the laggy animations, i'm not experiencing anything.

You can try to reduce transparency in System Preferences if you experience UI animation lags. Beginning with GM candidate 2 the animations got more fluid, but they still lag behind older versions of OS X.

 

[vsnlweb]

Here's a more obvious picture for you.

I think it may just be you... I don't have those black corners.

 

[Superhai]

GM Candidate is Apples way of telling that the OS is almost shipping ready, and developers can expect that apps they develop will have fully working APIs now. I.e. it is Apple saying: "Hey developers, in this version your apps should work as good as in the final release".

 

[leman]

lol, they *still* haven't fixed this extremely visible bug. I guess everyone at Apple uses the transparency.

I would think that accessibility settings are a very low priority for them, which is understandable.

Icon view has an extra pixel of vertical gray line between side bar and the contents.

Window resizing still does not work in list view, vertically or horizontally. I can go on.

I am slightly confused about you screenshot, because it does not seem to be Yosemite (which we are talking about here)

 

[Harry Muff]

I think it may just be you... I don't have those black corners.

I switched off the transparency just out of curiosity and, he's right, the corners go black.

Really not a big deal though, and I'm sure they'll deal with it eventually.

 

[iBug2]

I am slightly confused about you screenshot, because it does not seem to be Yosemite (which we are talking about here)

Maybe you should have read the post I replied to. It was about already existing UI bugs in OS X.

 

[Vodka]

Yosemite Copper Master, not Gold)

 

[gnasher729]

GM3..... GM means "beta" now.

That's clueless. There was never a Golden Master. There was a Golden Master candidate. And Golden Master candidates _can_ change very quickly, because a single bug can be fixed in a Golden Master candidate, and a new GM candidate is created.

In a Beta version, you expect many bugs that need fixing, so you wait until you have quite a few bugs fixed until you make another release.

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Because betas are supposed to be feature complete, every beta is theoretically a candidate for gm. If they find bugs, they release another beta. When you're done fixing bugs, you release a gm and send it to the press. Releasing strings of "gm candidates" is mockery.

Betas are released with known bugs, and with the knowledge that there are plenty of bugs to be found. A Golden Master Candidate has no known bugs that prevent shipping. That's why only very few bugs will be found and can be fixed very quickly.

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It's a candidate for becoming the GM not the actual GM being released.

It _may_ become the GM, if nobody finds bugs that stop it from becoming GM.

Since a Golden Master candidate with a bug fixed should become the next GM candidate, and not the Golden Master, there _must_ be a Candidate that becomes GM without any changes.

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I'm glad to see Apple is on their ***** for these bug fixes.

Hopefully they'll take up this ethic within their iOS team.

Clearly iOS 8.0.1 was missing one Golden Master Candidate.

 

[crashoverride77]

Examples? Just curious. I can only think of a couple.

There will be no examples, people love to say stuff like this but than actually cannot back it up with facts.
I asked the same question to someone on the ios 8 forum who said ios 8 is a bug fest etc. I told him to list me 20 bugs he found (apart from 8.0.2 fixes) and I'm still waiting for the response.

 

[dBeats]

Read my initial post, you have to have reduced transparency enabled.

So disable it.

 

[Explorz]

Computer renaming itself

Anyone else have an issue where the computer renames itself with increasing numerical iterations of itself?

Within the System Preference "Sharing" my computer name keeps changing.

For example, it starts as something like "My Macbook Pro". But then changes to My Macbook Pro (1) and then My Macbook Pro (2) and then My Macbook Pro (3).

My iMac that is running Yosemite doesn't have this issue. Just the Macbook Pro. The iMac is connected to the network via ethernet. And the network is provided by an Airport Extreme.

And on the iMac these different iterations of the Macbook Pro keep stacking up under the "Shared" heading in the finder sidebar.

Somehow when the computer wakes from sleep or is perhaps accessed through Home Sharing or perhaps tries to rejoin the network, it encounters itself as already logged in and renames itself to avoid a conflict?

Anyone else or ideas?

 

[iBug2]

There will be no examples, people love to say stuff like this but than actually cannot back it up with facts.
I asked the same question to someone on the ios 8 forum who said ios 8 is a bug fest etc. I told him to list me 20 bugs he found (apart from 8.0.2 fixes) and I'm still waiting for the response.

Funny, I already listed two of them.

But those were Mavericks bugs. For iOS 8 from the top of my head

• Settings app crashing constantly.
• Safari crashing every now and then.

 

[dysamoria]

"More modern"?

You mean "trendy".

 

[Anim]

lol, they *still* haven't fixed this extremely visible bug. I guess everyone at Apple uses the transparency.

I predict another GM candidate on Monday.

I take it you have filed this in a bug report?

bugreport.apple.com

 

[GlenK]

Wow, I do not have Yosemite yet and was looking forward to it. After reading this thread I think I'll hold off for a while when it is released.

 

[Cougarcat]

I take it you have filed this in a bug report?

bugreport.apple.com

Of course. It's apparent on any mac with reduced transparency, so I imagine many people have.

 

[Aagaard2703]

Freezes upon wakeup!

Please fix the freezes upon wake up.

My Macbook Air sometimes freezes while i try to wake it up... Is this the same thing that is happening to you

 

[JPamplin]

Wow. Either they found a (huge) bug or they're picking up the pace for getting Yosemite out faster, maybe release before the the event on 16th?

Personally, I think they are trying to have it GM by the 16th, yes. It would be a good talking point in the presentation, although (hopefully) they are going to have a few things to show off.

I am REALLY hoping for a new Apple TV that can run apps. A7 or A8, use your iPhone or iPad as a gaming controller, the whole thing.

That would be huge.

 

[crashoverride77]

Funny, I already listed two of them.

But those were Mavericks bugs. For iOS 8 from the top of my head

• Settings app crashing constantly.
• Safari crashing every now and then.

So you think these happen to everyone? My settings and Safari never crash.
Lag and keyboard stutter in Safari (iPads) however is a problem for everyone but has more to do with optimisation than bugs.
A real bug since ios 7 is the map bug in settings-map where you cannot use km, it will always jump back to miles, but only on iPads.