Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Monterey 12.5 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new update coming two weeks after the release of the first macOS Monterey 12.5 beta.

Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences.

There's no word yet on what new features or changes might be included in macOS Monterey 12.5, and nothing new was found in the first beta. It's likely this update focuses on bug fixes and other minor improvements to the operating system.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Monterey 12.5 to Developers

 

[Realityck]

Its a 2.51 GB OTA download for M1 Macs.

 

[Aston441]

Hey Apple!

Did you did the utter disaster Bootcamp Assistant has devolved into? Or do you just not care any more?

 

[albert421]

Hey Apple!

Did you did the utter disaster Bootcamp Assistant has devolved into? Or do you just not care any more?

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[elvisimprsntr]

None of todays betas are listed on Apple dev site, although installing now. The person responsible must still be on vacation. https://developer.apple.com/download/

 

[Freeangel1]

I was hoping this would get released the day of WWDC.

Just 1 more 12.5 GB download. and no more updates. at least for a while.

These large downloads are killing me. Internet keeps getting slower and more expensive.

 

[tywebb13]

Build number is 21G5037d

 

[Realityck]

MacOS 12.5 beta 2

Safari Version 15.5 (17613.3.1.1.4)

System Firmware Version: 7459.140.10 (M1 based Macs)

Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Tue May 24 21:21:33 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.30.121.1~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64

MacOS 12.5 beta 1

Safari Version 15.5 (17613.3.1.1.2)

System Firmware Version: 7459.140.8 (M1 based Macs)

Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Sun May 8 18:46:58 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.20.0.4~14/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

 

[Realityck]

Everything released today

• macOS 12.5 beta 2 (21G5037d) - May 31, 2022
• iOS 15.6 beta 2 (19G5037d) - May 31, 2022
• iPadOS 15.6 beta 2 (19G5037d) - May 31, 2022
• watchOS 8.7 beta 2 (19U5037d) - May 31, 2022
• tvOS 15.6 beta 2 (19M5037c) - May 31, 2022

Against MacOS 12.5 beta 2

General​

There are no new release notes for this beta software update.

 

[AppleTO]

What is the point of releasing beta software for testing if they don't tell us anything about what to test or what has changed..?

Edit: I used to do software QA.

 

[Realityck]

What is the point of releasing beta software for testing if they don't tell us anything about what to test or what has changed..?

Beta testing has always been about just normally using the beta software and see if you run into some instances that don't work they way they should. Then you provide feedback to Apple.

The MacOS release notes are for advising about changes to the respective SDK for devs.

While they do list some known issues and some fixed issues at times, it's never been a full list of what constitutes bugs/issues. That is usually gleaned from people discussing some issues online at times.

 

[albert421]

What is the point of releasing beta software for testing if they don't tell us anything about what to test or what has changed..?

Edit: I used to do software QA.

there might be no new features, but underlaying code probably have changed. And it might cause unexpected behavior/crashes to your application. Apple want their developers to test their app on the new OS and report any issue.

 

[AppleTO]

there might be no new features, but underlaying code probably have changed. And it might cause unexpected behavior/crashes to your application. Apple want their developers to test their app on the new OS and report any issue.

That's fair. I often forget that these are mainly for developers to ensure their apps don't crash.

 

[skardvin]

?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[rpmurray]

That's fair. I often forget that these are mainly for developers to ensure their apps don't crash.

These are mainly for developers so they can create work arounds for new bugs that have been introduced.

 

[tobbioleg]

???

 

[AltecX]

Nothing for my M1 air yet.

 

[nacinla]

Hopefully this fixes an issue I've talked with Apple reps about for going on six months: the failure of Apple Mail's "Move" button to remember and prompt a folder when an email is selected on my MacBook Pro (I've posted about this elsewhere; have tried MULTIPLE suggestions to fix, including multiple erase and installs of Monterey). This stopped working for me in January or thereabouts. I've had Apple reps comb and download code from my machine, and still no answer. Multiple calls and exchanges with a nice rep named Daniel until a month ago; no reply to my last email. The feature works on my iPhone 12. It's a huge inconvenience not having it.

 

[CMMChris]

I am facing Thunderbolt related kernel panics in 12.5 Beta 2 on my 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro. When waking from sleep while attached to my CalDigit TS3+ macOS pretty much always panics. After reboot it is submitting a report via Feedback Assistant according to which the "ACIO1" co-processor is the cause of the panic, which is related to Thunderbolt. This started right after the update to Beta 2. Never had anything similar happen before. Had 5 kernel panics today.