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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

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Apple today seeded the fifth beta of an upcoming macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 update to developers, one week after seeding the fourth beta and more than a month after releasing macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, the second major update to the macOS High Sierra operating system.

The new macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 beta can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Center or through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store with the proper profile installed.

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It's not yet clear what improvements the macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 update will bring, but it's likely to include bug fixes and performance improvements for issues that weren't addressed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.2. It offers additional fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that were discovered and publicized in early January and fixed initially in macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.

The update also fixes a bug that allows the App Store menu in the System Preferences to be unlocked with any password.

The previous macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 update focused solely on security fixes and performance improvements, with no new features introduced, and a supplemental update introduced a fix for the Spectre vulnerability.

Update: A new public beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 is available for public beta testers.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
 
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It's not yet clear what improvements the macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 update will bring, but it's likely to include bug fixes and performance improvements for issues that weren't addressed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.
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I sure hope so! As a matter of fact, I am really hoping Apple does not release 10.14. this summer and just focuses on fixing the loooong list of bugs in this operating system.
 
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Bryan Bowler said:
I sure hope so! As a matter of fact, I am really hoping Apple does not release 10.14. this summer and just focuses on fixing the loooong list of bugs in this operating system.
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Same with iOS. We need a snow leopard year for software. Only for them to just screw it all up again with tons of bugs in the next cycle but it would be nice to delay the pain. Haha.
 
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Bryan Bowler said:
I sure hope so! As a matter of fact, I am really hoping Apple does not release 10.14. this summer and just focuses on fixing the loooong list of bugs in this operating system.
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jonnyb098 said:
Same with iOS. We need a snow leopard year for software. Only for them to just screw it all up again with tons of bugs in the next cycle but it would be nice to delay the pain. Haha.
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Yeah, they really need to increase the new OS cycle to 2-3 years and not every year. It seems like by the time they get all the wrinkles ironed out, they release a new bug-filled OS that we have to wait another year to not be so buggy again. It's annoying.
 
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Build number is 17D39a for most macs, but 17D2039b for iMac Pro.
 
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Bryan Bowler said:
I sure hope so! As a matter of fact, I am really hoping Apple does not release 10.14. this summer and just focuses on fixing the loooong list of bugs in this operating system.
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well I'm against the idea of realizing a new OS very year and I'm a fan of please fix stability and performance and stay with one OS for at least 2 to 3 years but this time I really hope they make a new OS and forget that Drunk Sierra sorry High Sierra ever existed.

Mac OS 10 for an eternity, they missed their big chance last year to change the number to Mac OS 11 so they could sync Mac OS 11 and IOS 11

but I don't know what the are thinking lately
sorry I do know
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I will skip HS entirely, for me it's the worst version of macOS released yet. Huge battery drain, slow and unresponsive on my rMBP 2015 (had it till the previous beta). Since I reversed to Sierra, everythings perfectly fine again. :)
 
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iamtheonlyone4ever said:
well I'm against the idea of realizing a new OS very year and I'm a fan of please fix stability and performance and stay with one OS for at least 2 to 3 years but this time I really hope they make a new OS and forget that Drunk Sierra sorry High Sierra ever existed.
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I would say that High Sierra, Sierra and El Capitan are not "new OS" but rather minor updates (which is really disappointing). New Safari update with a tracking protection isn't really what my concept of a major update / new OS is.
 
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mmm1345 said:
Mods on this site are a bunch of damn hypocrits! They have problwm with vile homphobic, racist posts but ifnyou point out their hypocrosy they threaten to ban you. Just delete my account you hypocritical *******s
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never make an account in tonymac , I been banned there like 20 times just for asking , what happened?
 
UL2RA said:
Yeah, they really need to increase the new OS cycle to 2-3 years and not every year. It seems like by the time they get all the wrinkles ironed out, they release a new bug-filled OS that we have to wait another year to not be so buggy again. It's annoying.
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That's just it, it used to be that way! When they were doing releases every two years, it was the time period when MacOS was most stable. Then starting with Mavericks they started releasing every year and quality has gone downhill since.
 
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That's just it, it used to be that way! When they were doing releases every two years, it was the time period when MacOS was most stable. Then starting with Mavericks they started releasing every year and quality has gone downhill since.
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I'm hoping that most of these bugs are simply attributed to High Sierra being a brand new file system and that the next iteration will be a lot better. But the pattern over the last few years has been that Apple has just lost the ball on quality control lately.
 
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GIZBUG said:
Out of all the mac websites I visit, u seem to be the only one knowing this. Odd......
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He has magical powers.
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now i see it said:
The whole purpose off High Sierra was to fine tune Sierra. It is/was supposed to be a "snow leopard" type release... but has fallen short of that dream.
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No, it wasn't. It's a brand new file system ... the biggest change to OS X since it was first debuted.
 
I hope that along with this update Apple will release information as to exactly when they became aware of SA-00086. I'd also like for them to be a bit more specific as to what they mean by "performance improvements" in a release ostensibly mitigating SA-00086, when a large issue looming is that software patches aimed at guarding against the CPU threats is the very opposite - performance degradation between 3 and 30 percent.
 
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How long will it take them to fix Command-B not working for BOLD in the MAIL program?

How many times to I have to file the bug? Command-B clearly works here, but not correctly in MAIL?

And every new update still confuses mail servers in the MAIL program requiring remembering passwords and such. Isn't the Keychain supposed to make this not happen?

Btw, Command B hasn't worked since Sierra.

I know someone is going to say, c'mon, it's your keyboard, but it's not as I see the flash at the top of the screen showing the key was hit, not to mention I've tried multiple keyboards with the same result. How can they not fix something so simple? Do I type too fast for Apple?

It makes me seriously wonder if they know what they're doing or there's just not enough people working on this. :(
 
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Has Apple addressed the issue with the new afs and fusion drives? I haven’t upgraded since Sierra, and until I know that issue is fixed, I’m staying on Sierra. I have a Mac mini w/fusion drive and a MacBook Air with a SSD. I’m waiting to upgrade them all at the same time.
 
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