Apple Seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 Build 13D28 to Developers

[zeiter]

It does not fix the problem. Also, a problem with dvi only 2560x1440 monitors using apple's dvi-d to MDP adapter not being recognized at all on a new Mac pro still persists. This problem has existed since early 10.9.2 betas and was confirmed by apple engineers when it was released. Wish they'd fix it. Bug reports and phone conversations has had no traction.

So Apple will probably never fix it? what kind of company is that honestly?

 

[dysamoria]

I look forward to 10.10 DP and iOS-ification of the system.

It better not be iOS 7-ification...

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It's been a bad sign, for me and many others. Before 10.7, OS X 10.X development varied between 1 ½ to 2 ½ years with biweekly or weekly releases that required downloading a .dmg from the developer site, burning the image to a DVD, wiping the system and installing a "clean" OS. This allowed for improved debugging by eliminating any possible third party app "contamination" (10.7+ releases have proved difficult to properly isolate any system matters), and allowed Apple more time to "get it right" before release. Of course not all 10.X first releases were stellar, but they were far better than the current annual release cycle to match iOS. There is no need to rush out annual OS overhauls, especially as we're just on 10.9.3 beta. By the time iOS is released it may be .5 or .6.

Personally, while Craig Federighi is an excellent engineer, nothing beats the work Bertrand Serlet did while SVP of OS X engineering. I still believe 10.5/6 are the best OS X releases to date (and before the "Serlet was involved with 10.7, he was not, he was already on his way out the door to Parallels 2009-2010, 10.7 was all Federighi).

Don't forget that Snow Leopard was given a massive overhaul on efficiency, likely as part of the attempt at creating the iPhone OS, which needed to run on considerably less powerful hardware and in smaller memory space. Without any further compelling reason for them to do another efficiency release, OS X has just been yet another product to shove out the door. Now that it's on the no-cost model, don't expect to see a lot of engineering time spent on it again. :-/

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Installed for like 2 hours and filed the first bug report already. Mail screws up its signatures again. Previous version would leave the old signature in place when switching accounts, this time it forgets all signatures assigned to accounts whenever you reboot.

Why do they have so much trouble with the mail client??

 

[Trota]

USB audio interfaces?

Any news on the audio part of the build? Does it fix incompability between USB audio interfaces and Haswell in late 2013 macs as pointed out by manufacturers?

Avid

Presonus

Others manufacturers are blaming Maverick as seen here .. Focusrite

Long thread with various issues here .. https://discussions.apple.com/message/23522954#23522954

 

[MrGIS]

Still waiting for working GMail....

Be nice to check my iPhone's GMail account, and then when I go to my iMac have my mail actually be read there, too. You know, like IMAP should work? Used to work just fine in Mountain Lion, so not sure what Apple changed to have it not work in Mavericks, despite whatever non-standard IMAP implementation Google uses.

Please, Apple. Think of the children.

I finally gave in and had all my gmail forwarded to iCloud .. Moved existing mail.. It works great for my needs..

 

[zeiter]

I use a Dell display connected from the Thunderbolt port to displayport and don't see this problem in 10.9.2, can you provide more detail as to your setup?

I'm using a dell u2312hm, and Im pretty sure if you go into your screen's OSD, it will tell you the input as YPbPR. what is your dell's model?

 

[Scyanide]

Good to see others are having weird display issues in this build (13D38) of 10.9.3. I run beta/testing all in Parallels and when I upgraded the screen goes black. I get the typical increase in fans as it is booting up and then it quiets down while sitting there. Just can't see anything that is going on. I'm hoping it is related to the crazy resolution being presented and Parallels tools having issues with it. Hopefully we'll see another build soon or a fix from Parallels soon. In the meantime, I've had to revert to the previous snapshot.

 

[chrfr]

Good to see others are having weird display issues in this build (13D38) of 10.9.3.

You're in the 13D28 thread. The 13D38 thread is here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1724345/

I have no idea why the old threads don't get locked when a new pre-release build is released.

 

[Scyanide]

You're in the 13D28 thread. The 13D38 thread is here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1724345/

I have no idea why the old threads don't get locked when a new pre-release build is released.

Heh, oops. My bad. I had both open and guess I accidentally posted in this one and not the other.