Members of Apple's Developer Connection have been seeded a new OS X 10.5.7 build one week after the previous Leopard seed (9J27), World of Apple is reporting. As usual, the Mac-focused site also got hold of the seed notes for the latest developer build of Leopard. Those can be found below.

According to the reporting site, “the rapid development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 suggests a public release before the end of March.” The fixed issues seem to have piled up nicely. The seed notes list around 80 fixes spanning the entire development of OS X 10.5.7, six of which have been fixed in the current build (9J30). One issue still haunts 10.5.7, namely the unsupported Safari 4 Beta. As for the focus areas, this time around developers are required to use their testing skills on Flash Player, USB and Flash Drives, iCal, Widgets, and more.

The seed notes for build 9J30 (lacking issues fixed in previous seeds) can be found below.


Known Issues

Safari 4 Beta only installs on Mac OS X 10.5.6.


General Focus Areas

AFP

AirPort

Bluetooth

Directory Services

FileSync

Flash Player

GraphicsDrivers

iCal

iDisk Synching

Mail

Managed Client

MobileMe Synching

Networking

Parental Controls

Printing

Screen Sharing

Sound

Time Machine

USB & Flash Drives

VPN

Widgets

X11


Areas of Change

Flash Player updated

Fixed issue with CoreGraphics and screen zoom parameters

Issue with iChat framerates fixed

Fixed problem with HFS+ volumes and DVD media

Resolved issue with iCal CalDAV and calendar refresh

Issue with CPU Software and digital output fixed.


As noted by the source of the seed notes, development on Mac OS X 10.5.7 seems to be coming along; hence, the new Leopard version may be released to the public as soon as this month.