Mac OS X 10.5.7 Still Being Tested – Build 9J58 Arrives

The much-anticipated 10.5.7 update to OS X Leopard is being held off by Apple for further testing in areas such as AFP volumes, Bluetooth stability, crash reporting, logging, Safari, Time Machine, etc. The new build, labeled Mac OS X 10.5.7 9J58, adds just two areas of change, both affecting CFNetwork in association with Safari, VPN and iChat. The seed notes again signal an imminent release, although testing seems to be taking longer than expected.

World of Apple is again responsible with publishing documentation for the latest Leopard test build. The site notes that the Safari 4 Beta is still incompatible with OS X 10.5.7, as with earlier builds. The release has developers focusing on a total of 26 areas comprising Mac OS X Leopard, among which AFP, Bluetooth, FileSync, iCall, iChat, Mail, MobileMe, Safari, Sound, Time Machine and X11 are mentioned. The seed notes for Mac OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J58 are available 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;
Help Viewer;
iCal;
iChat;
iDisk Synching;
Mail;
Managed Client;
MobileMe Synching;
Networking;
Parental Controls;
Perl;
Printing;
Safari;
Screen Sharing;
Sound;
Time Machine;
USB & Flash Drives;
VPN;
Widgets;
X11.

Areas of Change

CFNetwork, VPN and iChat compatibility fix;
CFNetwork and Safari compatibility fix.

For a list of issues fixed in previous seeds, visit World of Apple.

While Apple is expected to issue the new maintenance update to Leopard users, momentarily, a combo update is reportedly being worked on as well, addressing issues with Leopard versions 10.5.6 down. The update is said to arrive alongside a “Security Update 2009-002,” which is said to address “Tiger” issues. It is being signaled that several (available) graphics solutions are dependent on the 10.5.7 update, again suggesting an imminent release.

The development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 can be tracked in the related posts.