Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.5 (9F9)

[MacRumors]

Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Build 9F9) to test. The latest seed comes just one week after the prior seed.

The newest seed lists 24 new fixes addressed in this seed with a focus on Sync Services, Mail and Addressbook.

Apple has started aggressively seeding Mac OS X builds shortly after the last release. The last version of Mac OS X was released on June 30th, 2008 and provided support for MobileMe services.

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[acvball92]

Hopefully my MacBook will be solid soon.
I LOVE NEW UPDATES, IT'S LIKE GETTING A BRAND NEW MAC!!!!😀

 

[notnek]

glad to see they're actively pushing seeds.

 

[JSUDaniel]

YES! Can't wait for the update!

 

[bentley]

will this see the Mac PUSHing to the Cloud?

 

[Auzburner]

Great, I suppose the more the better!

 

[Clarus9]

Good to see... keep em comin!

 

[KingYaba]

Let us hope they fix Front Row with this update. 😡

 

[ashjamben]

its really sad, but i always look forward to updating leopard. 🙂

 

[JoeDRC]

its really sad, but i always look forward to updating leopard. 🙂

same here, its nice knowing i have an up to date mac

 

[amac4me]

In recent months Apple has sped up the delivery of Leopard updates. 10.5.3 was in the end of May and 10.5.4 at the end of June.

At this rate 10.5.6 will be released by the end of the year.

 

[pkoury]

So when they release Snow Leopard will they continue to update Leopard or are they trying to get all the bugs worked out so they don't have to continue support?

 

[inkswamp]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I hope Apple takes this opportunity to iron out all the remaining bugs with Active Directory integration. It's improved with the last couple updates, but until it functions as well as it did in Tiger, it's hard to deploy it.

Come on, Apple. You talk a good game when it comes to the enterprise, now give us the goods. 🙄

 

[bmonzing]

will this see the Mac PUSHing to the Cloud?

I'm thinking you're right. This would be a sweet surprise post the MobileMe debacle. Here's to push from the Mac!

 

[bryanzak]

Let us hope they fix Front Row with this update. 😡

and

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I hope Apple takes this opportunity to iron out all the remaining bugs with Active Directory integration. It's improved with the last couple updates, but until it functions as well as it did in Tiger, it's hard to deploy it.

Come on, Apple. You talk a good game when it comes to the enterprise, now give us the goods. 🙄

Register a free online developer account
File a detailed bug report
Track its progress (or lack thereof!)

This is a great way to make sure Apple is aware of a bug that's impacting you.

 

[/dev/toaster]

Slightly off topic but its driving me nuts, can anyone dechiper the Apple build numbers ? 😀

 

[papiti]

Keep 'em coming Apple, keep 'em comi🙂ng!!

 

[Amdahl]

So when they release Snow Leopard will they continue to update Leopard or are they trying to get all the bugs worked out so they don't have to continue support?

Boy, I hope that is what they are doing. Maybe then Jobs' cultists will stop defending Apple's policy of dropping support for an OS just because they are releasing a newer one.

Five years of security updates after last sale, or BUST!

Windows 2000 gets updates until July 2010 (equivalent Apple last-sale of October 2001: That's 8.75 years of support) and Windows XP is getting updates until April 2014 (7.25 years of support with equivalent Apple last-sale of January 2007).

Apple still issues QuickTime updates to 10.3, because they are greedy with the iTunes Store, but they can't be bothered to issue security updates for the overall OS.

 

[OriginalMacRat]

In recent months Apple has sped up the delivery of Leopard updates. 10.5.3 was in the end of May and 10.5.4 at the end of June.

At this rate 10.5.6 will be released by the end of the year.

Which shows that Leopard clearly was rushed to release with lots of problems.

I'd prefer that Apple takes their time and does a better initial release.

 

[superleccy]

Hope I'll be able to wirelessly sync groups of contacts using MobileMe.

SL

 

[inkswamp]

Register a free online developer account

Been a registered developer for years now.

File a detailed bug report

Have already done it for two different Active Directory plug-in issues in Leopard.

Track its progress (or lack thereof!)

In both cases, I was told it was a known issue and they were looking into it.

This is a great way to make sure Apple is aware of a bug that's impacting you.

That's debatable. 🙂

 

[MacGeek7]

will this see the Mac PUSHing to the Cloud?

I'm thinking you're right. This would be a sweet surprise post the MobileMe debacle. Here's to push from the Mac!

It seems like that's something they're gonna have to fix on the MobileMe end - not through a software update

 

[Mac OS X Ocelot]

Any general system fixes? It saddens me that I only see fixes to specific apps and services I don't use.

 

[Nermal]

In both cases, I was told it was a known issue and they were looking into it.

Consider yourself lucky. When Tiger was released I reported that the option in International preferences for customising number formats disappeared. They closed the bug as "third-party to resolve" 😕

 

[AJ1BostonMASS]

Hey so im new to a mac and i have leopard and i think its great and really dont care much about rumors of snow leopard but the only think is if its so rushed and lets just say it has bugs can my macbook be switched to snow leopard if its a better OS?

thanks
-AJ