Apple Seeds Fifth OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fifth beta of OS X 10.10.4 to developers and public beta testers, approximately two weeks after releasing the fourth OS X 10.10.4 beta and two months after releasing the first OS X 10.10.4 beta. OS X 10.10.4 has been in testing since mid-April, following the early April release of OS X 10.10.3, which included the new Photos for OS X app.

The new beta, build 14E33b, can downloaded through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store or through the Mac Developer Center.

OS X 10.10.3 brought several consumer-facing changes including the new Photos for OS X app, a redesigned emoji picker, and diversified emoji, but OS X 10.10.4 appears to be an under-the-hood update that brings performance enhancements and bug fixes.

Thus far, OS X 10.10.4 betas have not included outward facing design changes or feature additions, but the last beta introduced a significant behind-the-scenes update that may improve networking performance for users who have experienced issues with OS X Yosemite.

Discoveryd, a somewhat problematic networking process that has been linked to multiple bugs in OS X 10.10, was removed in favor of the older bug-free mDNSresponder.

It is not clear when Apple plans to release OS X 10.10.4 to the public, but the fact that we've now received five betas suggests we may be nearing the end of the beta testing period.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fifth OS X 10.10.4 Yosemite Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

 

[dmrowley]

Incredibly slow download speed..... They could mail the update to me faster!!

 

[TMRJIJ]

. . . But but but I already installed OS X El Capitan DP1

 

[maflynn]

Helps if I actually read the story

I thought it was for 10.11.

I'm so done with Yosemite thought

 

[HailstormX]

They really need to add a throttle for Photos services bandwidth usage. Its a good idea but they need to cap it. I have had more calls from friends and family complaining they there internet is so slow or unusable. So far every time its because of Photos uploading in the background consuming all the bandwidth. I didn't see any setting in EL Capitan Beta or in this one. Im hoping they do something with that soon.

 

[Dwalls90]

Writing is on the wall.

Apple Music is coming on June 30th, which is the release date for 8.4, and also 10.10.4.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Does anyone know if you can install 10.11 b1 over one of these 10.10.4 betas? Has anyone done this without issue?

 

[MagicBoy]

Incredibly slow download speed..... They could mail the update to me faster!!

Flying down at 4MB/sec here...

 

[Michael Goff]

Does anyone know if you can install 10.11 b1 over one of these 10.10.4 betas? Has anyone done this without issue?

I did it.

 

[dmrowley]

Just turned OFF Google DNS, and went back to my ISP's DNS settings, and it's coming in full speed. It's a conspiracy, I tell ya....

Update, 200Megs in, and it is back to a crawl.... :-(

 

[ostrykolesz]

I hope 802.11ac finally works!!!

 

[justperry]

Does anyone know if you can install 10.11 b1 over one of these 10.10.4 betas? Has anyone done this without issue?

About to install it this way, as I always updated and never reinstalled OS X from the very beginning (of OS X 10.0.0b)

I am tired of these WIFI issues in 10.10.X, hope El Capitan is much better.
Just last night WIFI disconnected(Full bars-manually turned Off/On 4 times in a row!

 

[chucker23n1]

(Bear with me; I'm too dumb to use this this new forum software.)

Writing is on the wall.

Apple Music is coming on June 30th, which is the release date for 8.4, and also 10.10.4.

I don't see why that would require an OS X update. iTunes is distributed separately.

I hope 802.11ac finally works!!!

Works fine here; 878 Mbits/sec over 5 GHz.

 

[n8cousins]

People are still using Yosemite? That is so yesterday morning.

 

[ostrykolesz]

How in the world can't

(Bear with me; I'm not getting how this new forum software works.)



Works fine here; 878 Mbits/sec over 5 GHz.

Not with my TP-Link Archer C7...

 

[bradkrischel]

I am part of the public beta testing for Mac, but not iOS. Does anyone know if updating to these latest betas (which removed Discoveryd) for my Macs will help with my networking/connectivity issues even though I'm not able to get to the public beta (with Discoveryd removed) for the AppleTV and iPhone?

EDIT: Also, are there ways to turning off/power on devices in a specific order to help propagate these changes across the devices?

 

[ValSalva]

Stability, stability, stability. For me 10.10.2 was significantly more stable. In fact this feels like the least stable .3 release in years.

 

[TMRJIJ]

People are still using Yosemite? That is so yesterday morning.

Haha true. Installed El Capitan DP1 on my main MacBook Pro.
People need to get with the times.

 

[Avenged110]

Haha true. Installed El Capitan DP1 on my main MacBook Pro.
People need to get with the times.

How's that been working? I installed it on my extermal drive and it crashes so hard I can't even shut it down correctly. Is it worth trying another install? (It was a fresh install fwiw)

 

[TMRJIJ]

How's that been working? I installed it on my extermal drive and it crashes so hard I can't even shut it down correctly. Is it worth trying another install? (It was a fresh install fwiw)

Works great. First tried it on an external which was fine and then decided to run it on my main partition.
MacBook Pro mid 2010
MacBook early 2008 (OS X Hackers Patched)

 

[Cam Johnson]

How's that been working? I installed it on my extermal drive and it crashes so hard I can't even shut it down correctly. Is it worth trying another install? (It was a fresh install fwiw)

I installed it last night and so far it works pretty well. Little bugs here and there, and my battery life dropped a good bit, but nothing drastic. I am mostly at home with my laptop so plugging it in isn't bad at all. Other than that, it just needs to be refined for my machine. (Late 2013 13" Retina)

 

[valleian]

So my only question is, if I download the Public Beta, will I be able to download the iTunes update for  Music?

 

[Avenged110]

Works great. First tried it on an external which was fine and then decided to run it on my main partition.
MacBook Pro mid 2010
MacBook early 2008 (OS X Hackers Patched)

I installed it last night and so far it works pretty well. Little bugs here and there, and my battery life dropped a good bit, but nothing drastic. I am mostly at home with my laptop so plugging it in isn't bad at all. Other than that, it just needs to be refined for my machine. (Late 2013 13" Retina)

Alright, thanks. I'll give it another go.

 

[chrfr]

So my only question is, if I download the Public Beta, will I be able to download the iTunes update for  Music?

Most likely, 10.10.4 will ship when the iTunes update is ready. You'll have no issues upgrading.

 

[andrewm]

. . . But but but I already installed OS X El Capitan DP1

“No Yosemite downgrade! No Yo-se-mi-te downgrade from El Capitan, El Ca-pi-tan, El Ca-pi-tan…” (to the tune of “La Bamba”)