Mac OS X 10.5.6 Release Imminent... Friday?

[fleshman03]

No, no. 10.5.5 is what we have now. I wish I had developer seeds...

Oh Duh. I should read the whole thing before replying. Too much coffee I guess Dev seeds would be sweet.

 

[richardsim7]

- Fixed issue with DVI and display detection

If this is true, and it fixes my flashing snow on my external display issue, I just might cry with happiness!!

-Rich-

 

[maclancer]

C'mon Copy and Paste!

10.5.5 has been working very well. I just hope for a little more stability. Safari has been crashing a lot in the past couple of weeks , even on simple, uncomplicated webpages.

Do you have any weird plugin installed in Safari? I don't have any plugin installed and Safari never crash in my iMac.

 

[ltldrummerboy]

I hope this fixes my issue with using Quick Look on mounted disk images. It shows information but no icon. Other than that, 10.5.5 is as stable as an establishment where racehorses are kept and trained.

 

[wayland1985]

10.5.5 has been working very well. I just hope for a little more stability. Safari has been crashing a lot in the past couple of weeks , even on simple, uncomplicated webpages.

Ah... so I'm not the only one. Ever since the safari update I've been having issues with speed, crashing... etc etc!

 

[Hawkeye411]

I just googled the 10.5.6 and the build number and that came up, hardly rocket science

Very cleaver!!

 

[Surely]

Do you have any weird plugin installed in Safari? I don't have any plugin installed and Safari never crash in my iMac.

Nothing weird. Only Inquisitor and an ad-blocker.

 

[queshy]

Hopefully new gestures will be added to older multi-touch-trackpad notebooks. Stability is always a welcome improvement. I predict Friday it will be out.

 

[sighlent]

AFP server login fixes.... hopefully this addresses the lack of being able to really disconnect from an AFP server.

 

[/dev/toaster]

Hopefully, they will actually fix the damn Mail.app problems that have existed since developer seeds of Leopard. Its pretty ridiculous how unrealiable todo items are, everytime I add something I get a damn conflict. Its so annoying and Apple has done nothing but ignore it. There is also the issue of when it just stops getting new mail. I will go for an entire day not realizing it hasn't accepted any new mail in 12 hours. That is, until someone yells at me for not checking my mail.

10.5.5 has also decreased my FPS with WoW on my Mac Pro by a crap ton. Previously, I was getting over 80fps in shatt with 2 copies of WoW running. Now, if I am lucky I get 25fps.

10.5.5 also appears to have some memory leaks. After a few days my wired memory keeps creeping up and its never released. Even if I kill all applications and relog. This happens on both my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro.

10.5.5 has major problems with filevault. The performance is down right terrible.

 

[Ampidire]

Hopefully, they will actually fix the damn Mail.app problems that have existed since developer seeds of Leopard. Its pretty ridiculous how unrealiable todo items are, everytime I add something I get a damn conflict. Its so annoying and Apple has done nothing but ignore it. There is also the issue of when it just stops getting new mail. I will go for an entire day not realizing it hasn't accepted any new mail in 12 hours. That is, until someone yells at me for not checking my mail.

10.5.5 has also decreased my FPS with WoW on my Mac Pro by a crap ton. Previously, I was getting over 80fps in shatt with 2 copies of WoW running. Now, if I am lucky I get 25fps.

10.5.5 also appears to have some memory leaks. After a few days my wired memory keeps creeping up and its never released. Even if I kill all applications and relog. This happens on both my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro.

10.5.5 has major problems with filevault. The performance is down right terrible.

Did you upgrade to WotLK? You know the shadows that introduced really bogged down everyone's performance right? Try disabling/lowering those, see what happens.

 

[JG271]

Who votes this negative? Product support/enhancement, how terrible

Anyways, I'm hoping that my wireless will work with the mini dvi-dvi adaptor after this...

 

[h.21]

You're either making this up or are breaking your NDA.

Why hello there, Captain Obvious

 

[lazyrighteye]

All PPC Macs get the 1 finger gesture in Snow Leopard.

FTW!

 

[Jupeman]

Youngster. My first Mac came with System 3.

I think mine was 2.0, but I used 1.0 Macs.

 

[alexbates]

4 finger gestures for old MBPs would be nice.

I have the old MBP too and wish this could happen, but it's not. The old MBP doesn't have a multi-touch trackpad, unlike the old MBA, which could have 4-finger gestures if Apple decided to come out with an update.

 

[Tallest Skil]

I have the old MBP too and wish this could happen, but it's not. The old MBP doesn't have a multi-touch trackpad, unlike the old MBA, which could have 4-finger gestures if Apple decided to come out with an update.

Yyyyeah, it does. How do you think we have three finger gestures and pinch to zoom?

 

[vicfalc09]

Do you think they could have bundled in the fixes for the RAM issues on the late 08' macbook and macbook pros, crossing my fingers they do so I could buy my 4GB kit already.

 

[RaceTripper]

It's not even out yet and I swear Safari is snappier in anticipation.

There, it's been said now.

 

[Cloudmover]

Core Audio on the block!

Areas of Change


- Core Audio and AU component version mismatch fix
- Multiple instances of MatrixReverb in separate threads fix
- Core Audio compressor threshold fix
- Switching default audio device’s output stream is now immediate
- More channels for Core Audio 3D mixer
- Programmatically created (public) aggregate device now plays correctly
- Audio Channel Layouts and Unique ID fix
- Changing the composition of an aggregate device audio dropout fix
- kAudioSubDevicePropertyDriftCompensation property can now be set on an aggregate device
- Renaming aggregate devices now propagate device name changes to all applications
- AudioFileOpenURL memory management fix
- CoreAudio AudioFileWritePackets file creation fix
- audioqueue compatibility fixes
- audio file stream compatibility fixes
- ExtAudioFileCreateNew memory management fix
- ADTS files now supports kAudioFilePropertyPacketSizeUpperBound
- Core Audio performance fixes

If this list is true Logic Pro and Core Audio are gonna fly!


Back up guys! Don't ever take an OS update at face value!
... and for goodness sake don't upgrade your work machine when you have a project due.

 

[Bryanj026]

I love how everyone has a "snappier" comment to make when there are new update releases

 

[/dev/toaster]

Did you upgrade to WotLK? You know the shadows that introduced really bogged down everyone's performance right? Try disabling/lowering those, see what happens.

The performance dropped before I upgraded. After upgrade there was no difference in speed.

 

[TonyHoyle]

The performance dropped before I upgraded. After upgrade there was no difference in speed.

The new graphics stuff came in the 3.0.2 patch, prior to WoTLK.

The NVidia performance is particularly bad.. there are people with dual 8800GTXs getting 25fps. It's more a blizzard problem than an apple one right now (alhough the OSX version is *way* slower than Windows that's probably a blizzard problem too).

 

[Mike Teezie]

I'd love for this to fix my MBP's problem with dropping wireless signal. That, and iChat trying to sign in 50 times every time I open it, making AIM block my account for ten minutes.

 

[/dev/toaster]

The new graphics stuff came in the 3.0.2 patch, prior to WoTLK.

The NVidia performance is particularly bad.. there are people with dual 8800GTXs getting 25fps. It's more a blizzard problem than an apple one right now (alhough the OSX version is *way* slower than Windows that's probably a blizzard problem too).

I noticed a huge drop in FPS when OS X 10.5.5 was updated, _not_ WoW 3.0.2 patch. I am also using a 3870 not the 8800.