Mac OS X 10.6.5 Notes: exFAT Support, AirPrint, Flash Player Vulnerability Fixes

[PruneTracy]

explanation needed...

AirPrint is still here... but lacking "shared printer" capabilities. What does that mean? How does a printer become shared?
So what i'm asking, is what are we gaining versus what are we losing out on?

thanks!

 

[kainjow]

This is a total surprise. I definitely did not expect this before 10.7, and possibly not even then.

As mentioned in the article, it's been included with certain iMacs on 10.6.4 for about a year, but few sites bothered to cover the story until now.

If we're really, Apple will backport it to older versions of the Mac OS so we can start using exFAT drives more often.

Not going to happen, but there is a FUSE implementation.

 

[pdc123]

Well they are enjoying it a little. I mean, netflix is based on silverlight. Netflix is really heavily used.

I really wish people would stop saying this. My iPhone streams Netflix, my PS3 streams Netflix, my Wii streams Netflix; Silverlight has plug-ins for OS X and Windows (and Windows 7 mobile I would imagine).

In any event, the issue is not that Flash is made by Adobe and that they suck (though it is true) or that Silverlight is made by Microsoft and they suck (they kind of do, but Silverlight is actually reasonably good). The issue is that they are third party plug-ins for a fixed number of platforms. By its very nature the web is most valuable to users when it is ubiquitous. With the explosion of mobile computing, it is not reasonable that any company (Adobe, Microsoft, or Apple) is going to successfully and stably port a plug-in that has to support so many browsers, browser versions, operating systems, operating system versions, form factors, hardware limitations and optimizations, etc.

Apple adding yet another third party plug in to the crap pile is just a bigger crap pile no matter how good it might be. If you're doing something on the web, then do it with the web standards and let each device/system/browser proprietor deal with making its product conform to it rather than the other way around.

 

[Cougarcat]

Can someone please explain why I am still able to use AirPrint with the final 10.6.5 release? I am running 4.2 GM seed on my iPhone and I am able to print to both of my printers shared via OS X. Is this because I previously had the 10.6.5 betas installed?

Yes.

 

[slicecom]

exFAT is big news. Now I just need Time Machine to be able to backup exFAT drives...

 

[mattwolfmatt]

They also added the iOS-like scrolling.

This statement is false.

iOS-like scrolling comes in Lion.

 

[getinline1]

It must be a legal issue that needs to be cleaned up. It should be released before version 2 of the iPad hits the streets, IMHO.

What on earth could you possibly be basing that on?

 

[Consultant]

Good to hear about the exFat.

 

[res1233]

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exFAT is big news. Now I just need Time Machine to be able to backup exFAT drives...

Exfat is missing technologies that time machine needs to operate. In other words, file and folder hard linking. It would require a complete redesign for it to work.

 

[ryan.stewie]

I think we're jumping the gun about AirPrint. Don't you think that they might just release AirPrint either within the iTunes 10.1 update or alongside it as a minor update?

 

[SDub90]

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I think we're jumping the gun about AirPrint. Don't you think that they might just release AirPrint either within the iTunes 10.1 update or alongside it as a minor update?

Agreed, they probably don't want to put out something that can't officially be use yet. I'm assuming they want to get it out in one shot instead of bits at a time.

 

[netdog]

Quite likely. I patched my Mac Mini - shared a printer and both my iPhone and iPad can print using 4.2

Is the lastest iTunes 10.1 the Beta 2 version?

 

[chris200x9]

i have a feeling this is going to be a really stupid question, but why can't Apple develop their own version of Flash Player, or something similar, would knock Adobe and HTML5 out of the park!

+1 except not their own, help lightspark and gnash! Lightspark now has a gnash fallback, it plays all youtube and most flash games I've tried...plus GPU acceleration!

 

[petvas]

Can someone please explain why I am still able to use AirPrint with the final 10.6.5 release? I am running 4.2 GM seed on my iPhone and I am able to print to both of my printers shared via OS X. Is this because I previously had the 10.6.5 betas installed?

Exactly.

 

[dlewis23]

- exFAT Support: Apple began including support for the exFAT file system in builds of Mac OS X 10.6.4 shipping on some of the company's latest iMacs and Mac minis with SDXC card slots, but Mac OS X 10.6.5 extends compatibility to all Macs.

So does this now mean that the first gen. 27" iMac that only supported SDHC cards now supports SDXC?

 

[guzhogi]

AirPrint is still here... but lacking "shared printer" capabilities. What does that mean? How does a printer become shared?
So what i'm asking, is what are we gaining versus what are we losing out on?

thanks!

Looks like people who upgraded from 10.6.4 straight to the final official version you can't. Only HP's new printers are supported if I've read the information correctly.

However, some posters here seem to have installed the betas that did support the sharing a printer on a Mac and then upgraded to the final version. Maybe installing the betas first did something. As I never tried, I can not vouch for this.

 

[macguyinnc]

PGP Whole Disk Encryption Users - CAUTION

This update does something to the boot partition that causes PGP to not start properly upon boot. As a result, the Apple logo appears with the spinning wheel, then changes to a circle with a slash through it, refusing to boot.

The fix is to download and burn the PGP recovery CD from PGP:
https://pgp.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1658/kw/boot recovery/r_id/105251/sno/1

The recovery CD will allow you to restore that boot partition on your drive.

For those running PGP Desktop 10.0.3, I was able to safely use the 10.0.2 recovery CD.

 

[miamijim]

This statement is false.

iOS-like scrolling comes in Lion.

I love the iOS bouncy scrolling, looking forward to it when it comes in next year

 

[wickedny5]

Thumbs up on exFAT support!!!! Agreed on the best news so far, I was hesitant to purchase those new flash cards for my DSLR (Rebel T2i) because of my MBP SD slot not supporting it, I know I could just USB it within the camera but the slot is so much faster and practical.

 

[res1233]

So does this now mean that the first gen. 27" iMac that only supported SDHC cards now supports SDXC?

Exfat and SDXC have nothing to do with each other. SDXC is a hardware format, and exFAT is a filesystem. If the hardware supports SDXC cards, then you can use them.

 

[Cougarcat]

What on earth could you possibly be basing that on?

Read the article. There was a rumor that a patent troll was causing problems.

We've heard claims of technical or legal/patent issues being behind the removal of support for shared printers, but have not received confirmation of any single reason for the change.

AirPrint is still here... but lacking "shared printer" capabilities. What does that mean? How does a printer become shared?
So what i'm asking, is what are we gaining versus what are we losing out on?

thanks!

Now, you can only use AirPrint if you have an AirPrint-enabled HP printer released this year. Before, if you had a printer connected to a PC or Mac or Airport and enabled printer sharing, you could use it.

 

[7o7munoz7o7]

They also added the iOS-like scrolling.

Where do you see that at? Or are you just speaking from rumors?

 

[Dokter_Mac]

What about SDL based games on recent iMacs (11,1)

All my SDL based games are having this very annoying bug since the update.
For some reason the OS X mouse arrow stays visible in fullscreen. Right in the middle of the screen! The 'in game' rendered mouse arrow, for selecting menus and others, works normal...

Anyone here with a 27" iMac? No matter which CPU and so far only seen with Radeon HD 4850 cards....

 

[ppdix]

10.6.5 killed my MacPro

10.6.5 killed my 12-Core Mac Pro... Restart>Grey Screen with Apple Logo> Black Screen and that's all folks. Pushing Opt-Command-Escape brings a blue screen and then the black screen of hell.
I tried installing into a second hard drive with 10.6.4 and it killed it too!!!! I am so pissed off right now. Quality control has gone to hell!
Luckily I have 2 more drives with 10.6.4 in them and was able to restart but with old data.
I am trying a time machine copy of System and Library and hopefully it will resuscitate it.
If not, back to a clean installation from the DVD and 10.6.4
My iPhone 4's proximity sensor is still bad after 4.1, iPhoto 11 erased people's libraries, Mac Book Airs are messed up from factory and Apple just approved a swap for my 1-month-old new Mac Pro 12-Core which crashes constantly...
What is Apple doing??? This feels like the 90's all over again... Problem after problem. I just hope they never bring the Type 11 Error again!

 

[Skika]

exfat support yay!

I love this! Already formated my usb external to it