Mac OS X 10.6.2 build 10C514 Seed Note

[ethana]

Mac OS X 10.6.2 build 10C514 Seed Note

Mac OS X Update 10.6.2 is an update to Mac OS X 10.6.

Installation Instructions

The Mac OS X 10.6.2 Combo Update can only be installed over a base system of Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.6.1.

Please be aware that you will not be able to revert back to your previous system after updating. Please install this update on a system you are prepared to erase if necessary.

As this is a pre-release build, it is not advisable to use this software on a production system with information on it that you depend on for your business.

Known Issues
- DVD Player may hang sometimes
- Parental controls pref pane crashes when selecting a user
- On some machines, optical drives are not recognized and the eject key won't eject media

General Focus Areas
- AddressBook
- AFP
- apache
- AppleBacklight
- AppleDisplays
- AppleScript
- AppleWWANSupport
- ApplicationFirewall
- AppKit
- ASR
- ATS
- ATSUI
- Battery Menu Extra
- Bluetooth
- CarbonCore
- CFNetwork
- CFPropertyList
- CFRunLoop
- CFURL
- ColorSync
- Component Manager
- configd
- Core Chinese Engine
- Core Media
- Core Animation
- Core Applications
- CoreAudio
- CoreData Framework
- CoreData Predicates
- CoreFoundation
- CoreGraphics
- CoreImage
- CoreMedia
- CorePDF
- CoreServicesUIAgent
- CoreText
- CoreTypes
- CoreUI
- CoreVideo
- CrashCatcher
- Date Time Prefs
- Dictionary Application
- Dock
- ExchangeWebServices
- Expose
- Family Controls
- Fax
- FileSync
- FileURL
- Finder
- Fonts
- Foundation
- Front Row
- Garbage Collection
- GraphicsDrivers
- GPU Compute
- Help Viewer
- HFS
- High Level Toolbox
- iCal
- iCal Exchange
- iChat Audio/Video/BuddyList/Jabber/Menu/Pref
- ICU
- iDisk Syncing
- Image Capture
- ImageIO
- ImageKit
- Inkwell
- InstallCmds
- IOAHCIBlockStorage
- IOHIDFamily
- IOPlatformPluginFamily
- IONetworkingFamily
- IOKit Kernel
- iPhoto
- IPSec
- Japanese Analysis
- Kerberos
- Kernel
- KeychainAccess
- Kotoeri Dictionary Trainer
- Language Analysis
- Latent Semantic Mapping
- LaunchServices
- libdispatch
- LibInfo
- libpcap
- libsecurity
- libxml2
- LoginWindowUI
- Mail
- mDNSResponder
- Migration
- MobileMe
- Mosaic Screen Saver
- network_cmds
- Networking
- Network Pref Pane
- NTFS
- Objective C
- OpenCL
- OpenGL
- PackageKit
- Parental Controls
- Phone Conduit Sync
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- Printing
- Quartz Composer Engine
- QuickLook Office
- QuickTime
- QuickDraw Manager
- QuickTime Player
- Screen Saver
- Screen Sharing
- security_certificates
- SecurityAgent
- Software Update
- Spaces
- Speech Recognition
- Spell Checker
- Spotlight
- Sync Services
- System Prefs
- System Configuration
- System UI Server
- Text Checking
- Time Machine
- Time Zone Data
- Traditional Chinese Input Method
- Translation Widget
- Universal Access Pref Pane
- URLMount
- USB
- Voice Over
- VPN
- Weather Widget
- WebDAVFS
- xQuery
- xType

Areas of Change
- Address Book: Crash in Core Data fix
- AppleScript: Coercion of negative integers now returns correct result
- AppleScript: Negative number operations fix
- AppleScriptObjC: AppleScript apps created in Xcode was failing to quit sometimes
- Graphic drivers: glBlitFramebufferEXT() fix
- Graphic drivers: Shader Compiler performance fixes
- Graphic drivers: glCopyTexSubImage2D() performance improved
- Graphic drivers: Multisampling was not working on certain graphics cards
- ATS: Certain LWFNs and fonts compatibility fix
- ATS: kMDQueryDidFinishNotification() and runloop compatibility fix
- ATS: The family identifier now working with CreateFontForScaler()
- ColorSync: Localization and ASCII profile description compatibility fix
- ColorSync: Inspector and v4 description fixes
- ColorSync: Fixed issues with window colors when certain ICC monitor profiles were used
- Component Manager: QuickTime components are now immediately registered when installed in /Library/QuickTime
- Core Chinese Engine: Input method performance enhanced
- Core Animation: CATiledLayer with perspective & translation transformation render fix
- Core Audio: MP4AudioFile and file write bug fix
- Core Audio: AudioFileOpenURL now opens valid MP3 with or without hint
- Core Data: Store migration now works for objects which have been pre-fetched
- Core Data: Row cache and data compatibility fix
- Core Data: NSPredicate was failing on non-canonicalized strings
- Core Data: CFMessagePort occasional failure fix
- Core Graphics: CGWindowListCreateImage() was failing when passed CGRectInfinite
- Core Graphics: CGImageCreateWithImageInRect() was returning NULL for image with mask
- Core Text: Cocoa character kerning now properly works for text strings
- File Manager: FSMoveObject() and FSCopyObject() APIs fail if destName parameter contained a forward slash
- Garbage Collection: Improved memory usage when adding observers to objects
- Help Viewer: HelpViewer sometimes fails to open help after running an AppleScript
- ImageKit: Incorrect vertical offset applied to the image scanned with rotated selection
- IOHIDFamily: Access to IR Remote HID device fix
- Networking: UDP broadcast loopback change
- NS Image: NSCustomImageRep() was not displaying dialogs correctly
- NS Image: Fixed drawInRect() issue
- OpenCL: clEnqueueRead() and assert failure fix
- OpenCL: Image creation size fix
- OpenCL: cl_event from clEnqueueMarker() contained no profiling info
- OpenGL: glPopAttrib() was crashing in certain conditions
- OSA: AppleScript droplets fix
- QT Kit: userDataOfType in 64-bit mode fix
- Speech Recognition: Speech recognition server was incorrectly reading/writing language model objects
- Sync Services: Filtering records fix
- Xtype: Fonts can now be disabled in the local registry
- Xtype: Occasional hang in UnregisterFonts when removing many fonts fix
- Other general fixes and performance improvements

 

[ivnj]

so how to download?

 

[Ivan P]

so how to download?

You have to be a registered OS X developer, it's just a developer's seed, not a public release.

 

[MythicFrost]

Good to know they are fixing VoiceControl I had hell trying to speak to my Mac, I was yellin' at it at some point LOL! good fun though, hope it works better.
(I mean speech recognition)

 

[Richard1028]

General Focus Areas

<snip>

Areas of Change

<snip>

Wow, quite a list What *aren't* they working on in SL?

What (if anything) in here would indicate they are working on the increased CPU/fan speed issues some of us are experiencing in 10.6.1?

 

[dalvin200]

are you allowed to post that under NDA?

anyway, good to see Bluetooth on the list cos ever since 10.6.x my imac doesn't auto connect to the apple BT keyboard when waking from sleep... have to manually select the device and connect it up... boo!

 

[stridemat]

its is quite a comprehensive list, but I have noticed some of the areas that they are concentrating on, especially expose (it could be crisper).

 

[kolax]

Ntfs..?

 

[fhall1]

Wow....lots of areas being worked. My SL disc is still in shrink wrap....maybe when this update drops, it'll finally be ready to install and give me minimal problems afterward.

 

[TranceNW]

its is quite a comprehensive list, but I have noticed some of the areas that they are concentrating on, especially expose (it could be crisper).

Actually having expose work on my system would be a bonus.

 

[Richard1028]

are you allowed to post that under NDA?

Most (if not all) of the crap here at MR is posted as a result of somebody violating their NDA.

 

[Gloor]

Could some of you please check if Maya graph editor bug has been fixed?

Thank you very much

 

[zerostar]

I have a bug when saving a Adobe CS4 Document (mostly Indesign) to a SMB server will hang/crash or just stall Indesign. Hope they fix this problem...

 

[Amdahl]

With updates like this...

Apple should start naming them.

Welcome to 10.6.2 Sand Leopard!

(and yes, I know they name them already)

Oh wait, I guess you could say they already did.. and they called it Snow Leopard, and charged $29 for it.

 

[kolax]

Apple should start naming them.

Welcome to 10.6.2 Sand Leopard!

(and yes, I know they name them already)

Oh wait, I guess you could say they already did.. and they called it Snow Leopard, and charged $29 for it.

You not familiar at all with any Mac OS X update...? Your ignorance is unbelievable!

 

[richard.mac]

looks like the sending of my System Preferences hang logs payed off. literally hangs everytime i open it and i have to force quit to open successfully.

good to see graphics and core animation are getting updated. Stacks are choppy for me on my Cinema Display but not on my MacBook Pro's screen.