14 DAY TRIAL // On Friday, October 16, 2009, Apple seeded its vast developer community with a new build of Mac OS X 10.6.2, the forthcoming incremental update to Snow Leopard, the company’s newest Mac OS. Labeled Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C527f, the seed is said to contain only one known issue, as well as two sets of release notes, “an indicative sign of a possible release candidate,” World of Apple notes. As usual, the site was able to provide the seed notes for the 483.5MB build.
At first glance, the update seems to provide reliability improvements limited to areas like iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, iDisk, and Safari plug-ins. However, the update also fixes a glitch that could delete user data, an issue reported by numerous Snow Leopard users merely days after its public debut, and recently acknowledged by the Mac maker. The issue occurs when a user logs in and out of a guest account on a Snow Leopard machine. Apple mentions the rather important fix only at the last line of the seed notes.
Full seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6.2 development Build 10C527f are available below, courtesy of the aforementioned web site. Softpedia won’t try to predict a release date for the new software update. However, Apple’s listing of few known issues generally indicates that development is coming along well. The public launch of OS X 10.6.2 may not be far off.
Known Issues
- Image Capture returns a black image when scanning in black&white and Image Correction is in manual.
Focus Areas (Changes in 10C527f):
AFP
- Resolves a panic in AFP.
AppKit
- Fix in NSButton, where buttons can be archived for those developing in Interface Builder.
BezelServices
- Resolves an issue where users were unable to manually adjust the screen dimming/key brightness on their portables.
ColorSync
- Resolves custom color profiles over reboots.
CoreServicesUIAgent
- Downloaded folders from zip files will open in the finder.
GraphicsDrivers
- Fixes to stencil renderbuffers. - Resolves a crash in OpenCL. - Resolves screen flickering issue. - Resolves a QuickTime Player X stuttering issue when playing 1080p content.
iChat
- Resolves an iChat hang on launch issue.
Image Capture
- Resolves an issue where the correct height & width values are returned for Nikon cameras. - Fixes a problem where when two FireWire card readers are connected, the volume name is unaccessible. - Resolves an issue where older Canon and Sony PTP cameras failed to see images.
ipsec
- Resolves an issue where the VPN connection remains active while transferring data.
Persistence
- Improves the response time when making edits to AddressBook.
Quartz Composer
- Fixes an iMovie crash when looping preview of titles in the skimming palette.
QuartzCore
- Fixes color shift issues in iMovie.
QuickTime Player
- Resolves document types so that movies that play in QuickTime, can also play in QuickTime Player X.
[Other fixed issues]
- an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly - a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites - Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts - a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user - issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers - the reliability of menu extras - an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture - an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server - Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing - a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book - an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet - Safari plug-in reliability - general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk - an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account (highlight ours)