Mac OS X 10.6.5 Release Imminent - New Build (10H563) Seeded to Developers

An observably rapid succession of Mac OS X 10.6.5 beta seeds now indicates that the Cupertino, Calif. Mac makers are ready to roll out the final version of the software update in the days to come, with no known issues listed in the seed notes, and the same list of focus areas which doesn’t seem to be posing any difficulties to developers for several builds now.

Developers are reporting that Apple has handed them a new Mac OS X 10.6.5 build a mere three days after the last seed, which also contained no known issues and a small number of focus areas for programmers to work with.

Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H563 is 616.5 MB in size as a delta update, and weighs in at almost a gigabyte as a combo update. It contains five focus areas and no known issues, as the seed notes show:

Known Issues
- None

Focus Areas
- 3D Graphics
- Printing
- QuickTime
- Time Machine
- USB Devices

It is widely believed that Mac OS X 10.6.5, the fifth incremental software update to Apple’s Snow Leopard operating system, will arrive before the planned iOS 4.2 update for iPhone, iPod touche, and iPad.

The 10.6.5 release will most likely deliver the usual bag of fixes, including patches for newly-emerged / discovered security holes.

New, core features are the least expected to make their appearance with this update, but it wouldn’t be unheard-of to see Apple add a thing or two to the Snow Leopard experience with OS X 10.6.5.

As previously noted by Softpedia, the incremental release should hit Mac users’ software updaters no later than the first week of November, but this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

Apple is also working hard to deliver Mac OS X Lion, the next-generation of its desktop OS, by the end of Summer 2011.