14 DAY TRIAL // This weekend, Apple has seeded its developer community with a new beta build of Mac OS X 10.5.7, requesting those in charge with testing the software to focus on Flash Player, flash and USB drives, MobileMe syncing and many other areas. The build contains improvements to Mail and the speech dictionary, as well as several other fixes, bringing the total number of fixed issues to over 90.
As usual, World of Apple has been quick to provide the seed notes for the latest Leopard test build, mentioning that only one known issue remains to be fixed – compatibility with the Safari 4 Beta. It should be noted that Mac OS X 10.5.7 has been plagued by this issue spanning three separate builds. Without further ado, the seed notes for Mac OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J34 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
Updated Speech Dictionary;
Resolved issue where computer may wake after Sleep enabled;
Fixed Mail signature synching issue;
Fixed localization problem with Weather Widget;
Resolved color corruption issue;
Fixed problem with CFNetwork FileProtocol and WebArchive;
Resolved problem with AFP C Client and searches;
Issue with FSCatalogSearch loops and AFP X Client fixed;
Issue with HFS and Magneto-Optical Disk resolved. Issues fixed in previous seeds include: Flash Player updated; fixed issue with CoreGraphics and screen zoom parameters; issue with iChat frame rates fixed; resolved issue with Mail accounts and syncing; fixed issue with CoreAnimation and mouse movement between snapshots; fixed problem with System Profiler Plug-Ins and panic logs; resolved issue with Image RAW and image conversion.
With a single (known) issue holding up the arrival of OS X 10.5.7, we could expect Apple to release the latest update to Leopard publicly as soon as next week.