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Mac OS X 10.4.6 (Build 8I1102) Seeded to Developers

p0intblank said:
Either this early release was already planned or Apple is speeding it up because it will have a fix for the recent Terminal vulnerabilities.
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That would probably come in a Security Update rather than a full point upgrade since presumably the problem might affect earlier versions of OS X

And I doubt the .5 update was just because of Maxxus. It was reportedly under review by developers for some time beforehand - I'd say it was more likely timed that way since the Mac Book Pros were starting to ship then too.
 
Sorry, but I have to throw in my two cents on the numbering issue:
1. There won't be an OS 11. (unless Apple switches from Aqua to X11 windows, which they could cleverly call the new OS X11... Oss will be 10.12.15.
2. Once you get past .9 doesn't mean that the next update is Leopard. For Example, the online game The Sims Online (PC only, sorry, coulndt think of another example) went from .9 to .10.
Sorry.
 
I look forward to the update... and it can't come fast enough for me.

All internet access that I attempt with after updating to 10.4.5 hangs. Safari is
slower, software update often fails to complete, .Mac sync operations
typically fail. This sucks!

I've found information in the macfixit forums, but it didn't fix it for me!
 
There won't be an OS 11. (unless Apple switches from Aqua to X11 windows, which they could cleverly call the new OS X11... Oss will be 10.12.15.
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Why do you believe this? OS Xi sounds like a perfectly viable name to me. In addition X11 is slowly debranding now that X.Org is the dominant free server and Xgl is promising to sweep in a whole new group of widget sets on top of a whole new base API.

Admittedly they have been a lot less willing to move on from the OS X name than most previous labels. System 6 had become OS 9 after 11 years, OS X is still OS X after 5. Or 7 if you count Server.

The biggest thing I want from OS X v10.4 updates is for Quartz 2d Extreme to be completed/enabled.
 
bankshot said:
I'd bet a week's pay that the 10th revision of the OS, should Apple ever get up that high, would be a .10 revision
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i wouldn't bet a week's pay! i just got a new job, £800 / week (here) - that's US$1500, so probably not going to happen :D :D :D :cool: :cool: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :eek: :eek: :D
 
TMA said:
Yes it could do, but Apple have never followed that convention before so why should they now?
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Actually, I believe that, following Apple's own convention, the update after 10.4.9 will be 10.4.X.
 
It's pretty basic 10.4.5 = Version 10 .Revision 4 .Update 5. It could go to Version 10 Revision 4 Update 10,000 if necessary
 
bwintx said:
Those who don't get that explanation should just start thinking of them with "understood zeroes": e.g., the current version is 10.04.05. When you look at it that way, you see that there's a lot of revisions theoretically possible.
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Finally, someone get's it with a simple example. Yes, it will just go to 10.4.10,11,12,etc,etc. Now those who still don't understand, just don't worry about it ;)
 
Doctor Q said:
I see no mention of security changes.
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The pre-release builds never include security changes in the seednotes because there's not a lot of specific information anymore. Previously Apple would detail every bug fix in every component but people would leak it to the internet. So then Apple put a warning in the seednotes saying if developers leaked it, the public might think a bug fix is coming but it may be pulled at the last second, and Apple takes the flak.

So now the seednotes say 'focus your testing on the following areas: Core Graphics, Safari, Printing, Quicktime' etc. The specifics are the known bugs caused by the seed.

Even when they did detail every change, I don't remember security updates being included in the list.

AppleMatt

bigandy said:
i wouldn't bet a week's pay! i just got a new job, £800 / week (here) - that's US$1500, so probably not going to happen :D :D :D :cool: :cool: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :eek: :eek: :D
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When I saw the link I thought "Royal Bank of Scotland". I clicked it anyway to be sure and saw a golfer. Scared, my eyes darted around the screen and I saw an F1 car. I thought 'is he working for Sky Sports?' Luckily the logo in the top left saved the day.

Interesting what a bank puts on their front page. Halifax are advertising their latest rate. RBS are advertising F1!

AppleMatt
 
AppleMatt said:
When I saw the link I thought "Royal Bank of Scotland". I clicked it anyway to be sure and saw a golfer. Scared, my eyes darted around the screen and I saw an F1 car. I thought 'is he working for Sky Sports?' Luckily the logo in the top left saved the day.

Interesting what a bank puts on their front page. Halifax are advertising their latest rate. RBS are advertising F1!

AppleMatt
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hehe, yeah, it is odd. the building's full of pictures of the Six Nations too, because they're sponsoring that too...

i did used to work for Sky TV, but not for sports, in their channel processing department in Dunfermline - the place they do final renders before broadcasting to the satellite feed. 800 channels at once. it's a monster of a server farm...
 
I know a couple people have been having Dock/Dashboard problems since x.5 came out. I've had some small issues with it. My dock has restarted a couple of times since installing that latest update, forcing dashboard to reload all its widgets. Not a huge problem, but it never happened in x.3 or .4 versions of Tiger.

jsw said:
Actually, I believe that, following Apple's own convention, the update after 10.4.9 will be 10.4.X.
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No, cause then it would be X.4.X ;)
 
Don't forget, seeds of betas and release candidates can continue for months before they finalize. I'd expect them to always be working on the next increment as soon as the previous one goes public, and beta testing is an obvious part of that process. So no, they're not going too fast.
 
Rocksaurus said:
Is it just me or does anyone else want Apple to slow down with updates? Certainly I love new OSes but I hate having to upgrade to be assured that I'm able to use the latest software all the time. Plus if you recall Tiger was fairly rushed. Needed a decent amount of work after they released it. I for one would really like Apple to take some extra time to add even more cool features and enhancements to give us more bang for the buck as well as a completely polished product. Maybe it's just me though.
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Yeah no doubt. I just hope Leopard isn't rushed/is worth it.
 
LimeiBook86 said:
Good! I've noticed Safari hanging a LOT on my Intel iMac and on my PowerBook G4 since the last update, hopefully this will fix things.



:D
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Easy fix... Use Camino. It's much quicker and it's universal binary.
 
I dunno.

I hope they do something to fix the windows sharing.

I've had issue with it since I got my mini. A lot of people have had similar complaints on the apple discussion boards.

I've followed guides galore and made the passwords non-encrypted on both sides yet everytime I try and mount a mac samba share I get an invalid user/pass response in windows.

a few people said that they didn't have that problem till the updated to 10.4.5
 
danr_97070 said:
I look forward to the update... and it can't come fast enough for me.

All internet access that I attempt with after updating to 10.4.5 hangs. Safari is
slower, software update often fails to complete, .Mac sync operations
typically fail. This sucks!

I've found information in the macfixit forums, but it didn't fix it for me!
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Many things concerning internet access have been slower, broken but I didn't know whether it was the security update or 10.4.5. Either way, I hope that 10.4.6 helps, as usual. Faster OpenGL throughput is appreciated, as always.
 
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