Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming two weeks after the release of the third macOS Big Sur 11.5 beta.

Developers can download the ‌‌‌‌macOS Big Sur‌‌‌‌ 11.5 beta using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper profile from the Apple Developer Center.

macOS Big Sur 11.5 may be a more minor update focusing on under-the-hood performance improvements and bug fixes for issues that weren't able to be addressed in the macOS Big Sur 11.4 update. No new features were found in the first three betas.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 to Developers

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

I haven't had any issues with macOS Big Sur 11.4.

 

[Morod]

Under-the-hood is good!

 

[Solomani]

Under the hood stability-and-fix updates are the best. Most "new features" are broken on release anyways.

 

[halofan56]

11.4 has been very good. Runs very fluent.

 

[katewes]

I haven't had any issues with macOS Big Sur 11.4.

I kept to 11.1 on my M1 Mini for a while with no problems connecting it to LG display. I didn't update from 11.1 because I heard of so many reports of problems connecting to external monitors. Then when everyone's reports on this forum seemed to indicate the problem of external monitors had been solved, I updated to 11.4, and immediately it bricked my M1. Have been waiting for 11.5 to get my M1 repaired by Apple.

 

[casperes1996]

I swear to God I have not edited this. The email I got from the AppleSeed beta testing program called it Bug Sur

 

[gank41]

I swear to God I have not edited this. The email I got from the AppleSeed beta testing program called it Bug Sur

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Yeah I got the same thing LoL

 

[rpmurray]

I swear to God I have not edited this. The email I got from the AppleSeed beta testing program called it Bug Sur

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Dang! I wish I had thought of calling it that first, so fitting.

 

[casperes1996]

Dang! I wish I had thought of calling it that first, so fitting.

I've seen a lot of people call it that on these forums. Though it's been fairly stable and smooth to me. From a stability perspective certainly as good as Mojave
But just found it funny

 

[dwaite]

Big Sur was so 2020. Just run Monterey if you are gonna have bugs anyway

 

[rpmurray]

Big Sur was so 2020. Just run Monterey if you are gonna have bugs anyway

New and improved bugs.

 

[damienbutt]

Can anyone say if this has fixed the bug with the chrome engine and hardware acceleration?

Really hoping thats fixed as it seems to effect any chrome based apps like electron apps. Vscode, discord etc as well as the Edge browser which I use.

 

[JippaLippa]

Experienced some audio glitches I didn't have in the first months.
I hope this updates will fix them...

 

[TheGeneralist]

11.4 has been very good. Runs very fluent.

For sure already far better than e.g. any 10.15 version, including the lastly released 10.15.7 sub-revision.

But there ist still plenty of room for improvement. On my M1 MBP there are still at least 14 reproducible bugs which occur on a regular basis and hinder my daily workflows (2 of them confirmed by Apple Support as OS bugs and diagnostics data from my Mac delivered to the programmers team, as the only possible solution is a future OS fix - for the other 12 I didn't take the time to open support cases. I made some notes on previously re-occurring OS bugs, at least 37(!) of them occurring on my Mac have been fixed reproducibly by versions 11.2 to 11.4, so living with at least 14 - most of the them not very critical or even annoying anymore - is already more comfortable than Mojave or Catalina has ever been.

Of course these easily user-reproducible bugs on one certain Mac are just the tip of the iceberg, so there is still a great amount of significant bugs and inconsistencies to be fixed.
Glad that 11.5 will focus on this kind of improvements, as this will in my opinion do better to macOS than even the most powerful feature upgrade imaginable (...which will always introduce a lot of new bugs...) could potentially do.

 

[macsareveryinteresting]

I swear to God I have not edited this. The email I got from the AppleSeed beta testing program called it Bug Sur

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Not to be mean but Apple is an organization. I don’t think they would have incorrect grammar. But I do sort of trust you because it has the “donoreply.”

 

[blazerunner]

6700 XT drivers?

 

[chucker23n1]

Not to be mean but Apple is an organization. I don’t think they would have incorrect grammar. But I do sort of trust you because it has the “donoreply.”

And therefore doesn't make mistakes? lol

Here's another shot:

And here, they made the same mistake last year:

 

[mxrider88]

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I swear to God I have not edited this. The email I got from the AppleSeed beta testing program called it Bug Sur

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I had that when they introduced it last year for the first beta.. a name a warranty

 

[Realityck]

I see the public beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 beta 4 is also available now.

 

[jz0309]

I see the public beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 beta 4 is also available now.

thanks, downloading now

 

[IllinoisCorn]

This is the first macOS beta I’ve had zero interest in downloading. Purple Safari has all the features I was really interested in.

 

[Unsupported]

But I do sort of trust you because it has the “donoreply.”

Surely that shoud be "donutreply"? 🍩

 

[tywebb13]

Build number is 20G5052c but the full installer doesn't seem to be available yet. Maybe later. They did however release the full installer for Monterey beta 2.

There is an 11.5 beta 4 ipsw for this too for M1 macs.

 

[ph001bi]

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming two weeks after the release of the third macOS Big Sur 11.5 beta.

Developers can download the ‌‌‌‌macOS Big Sur‌‌‌‌ 11.5 beta using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper profile from the Apple Developer Center.

macOS Big Sur 11.5 may be a more minor update focusing on under-the-hood performance improvements and bug fixes for issues that weren't able to be addressed in the macOS Big Sur 11.4 update. No new features were found in the first three betas.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.5 to Developers

The beta is out.