Apple Seeds Fourth OS X El Capitan Beta to Public Beta Testers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of OS X El Capitan to public beta testers, nearly one week after seeding the third beta and just under a month after providing the first OS X El Capitan beta to the public for testing purposes.

The fourth public beta follows the launch of the sixth OS X El Capitan developer beta, which was seeded to developers yesterday. Aside from new wallpaper, no outward-facing changes were introduced with beta six, suggesting it's largely an under-the-hood update with bug fixes and performance improvements.

Beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program and already have the public beta installed can update through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.

OS X 10.11 El Capitan is expected to be released to the public in the fall after the beta testing process is complete.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth OS X El Capitan Beta to Public Beta Testers

 

[Jeremy1026]

iOS9 Beta 5 also please?

 

[Chris Arkley]

1.43GB on Retina MBP 15. Must say, I'm already noticing massive performance improvements over Yosemite - I just hope they've finally done something about after effects in this release!

 

[JustThinkin']

Right on time! Time to get it.

 

[AngerDanger]

"More to love with every click" sounds like a tagline for a plus-sized dating site.

Not that I'd know how those sites market themselves…

 

[Darth.Titan]

1.43GB on Retina MBP 15. Must say, I'm already noticing massive performance improvements over Yosemite - I just hope they've finally done something about after effects in this release!

Issues with After Effects will be Adobe's problem to fix, not Apple's.
Why do people not get this?

 

[BeefCake 15]

"More to love with every click" sounds like a tagline for a plus-sized dating site.

Not that I'd know how those sites market themselves…

on a small screen, the cl looks like d....took a double look just to make sure lol

 

[tomnavratil]

Can't wait for the final release. Snow Leopard 2.0 hopefully!

 

[MacBird]

Uneventful installation, version number is 243d.

 

[ghostface147]

Uneventful installation, version number is 243d.

The way it should be.

 

[CristianM]

1.43GB on Retina MBP 15. Must say, I'm already noticing massive performance improvements over Yosemite - I just hope they've finally done something about after effects in this release!

AE still doesn't work but you can use CC (v12.2) in the meantime. That one works fine and you can get it from the creative cloud app.

 

[EKH]

Can’t see any update.

 

[bpeeps]

Can't wait for the final release. Snow Leopard 2.0 hopefully!

I can't wait for the final release so these posts stop. I honestly thought there hadn't been an article update since yesterday. But the lazy MR mod who wrote this article just uses the same picture and video on all of these OS version XX release posts.

 

[shanson27]

And iOS 9

 

[jmh600cbr]

Issues with After Effects will be Adobe's problem to fix, not Apple's.
Why do people not get this?

That's actually not entirely true. It depends on why it isn't working. For example during iOS 7 betas vine, snapchat and Facebook all were broken and fixed by apple before release.

 

[Jeremy1026]

Issues with After Effects will be Adobe's problem to fix, not Apple's.
Why do people not get this?

But, under Steve Jobs After Effects would run fine!!! /s

 

[Kadang]

The way it should be.

Except for the fact that the build number should show 15A244d!

Is public beta behind in build number compared to closed beta testers ? (which i'm running)

 

[jayducharme]

Issues with After Effects will be Adobe's problem to fix, not Apple's. Why do people not get this?

Perhaps because Apple's own apps have been screwed up by El Capitan. Final Cut is acting wonky and Logic has numerous graphics glitches. Downloading the update now; hopefully there's a fix.

I'm sending feedback to Apple every time I find a bug. With Yosemite's Beta, I'd do that a few times a week. But with El Capitan, it's becoming a second career.

 

[Jeremy1026]

That's actually not entirely true. It depends on why it isn't working. For example during iOS 7 betas vine, snapchat and Facebook all were broken and fixed by apple before release.

They were probably using deprecated APIs, and an update prior to the release of iOS7 removed those APIs, meaning those developers fixed their own apps.

 

[hojx]

Except for the fact that the build number should show 15A244d!

Is public beta behind in build number compared to closed beta testers ? (which i'm running)

Public beta has been one build behind developer beta

 

[Enygmatic]

iOS9 Beta 5 also please?

Who are you asking... the MR contributors?

 

[tomnavratil]

I can't wait for the final release so these posts stop.

I don't post these often but you can't be surprised when you think of Yosemite and how many bugs it has. I wouldn't mind paying for an upgrade it the quality was higher.

 

[Kadang]

Public beta has been one build behind developer beta

ok, thnx...

9to5 remarks the public build no. is the same as developer build no. - that's why i checked and noticed!

 

[n-evo]

So, at this point why does Apple even bother having separate Developer Previews and Public Betas?

 

[barbu]

I am installing over Screen Sharing / Back to My Mac. I was surprised to see the installer screen, i had assumed my session would have been punted for the install process, but it reconnected after reboot. Neat!