14 DAY TRIAL // Apple continues to increment OS X 10.9.2 betas with small numbers, suggesting that Mavericks customers worldwide are soon going to receive the public update.
Last week, Apple deployed build 13C53, whereas the version number of the current beta is 13C59, just six increments apart.
The focus areas haven’t changed one bit, with the company asking developers to focus their testing efforts on areas like SMB2, Mail, Messages, Graphics Drivers, VoiceOver, and VPN. Testers are told to report any bugs they may discover in their usage.
The instructions are strict, and Apple would appreciate it if developers included “a Summary, Steps to Reproduce, Expected Results, Actual Results, and the diagnostic output generated by running ‘sudo sysdiagnose’ in the Terminal,” according to people who are familiar with the software.
No fixed bugs are mentioned in the seed notes, and there are also no known issues listed in the changelog of this beta, according to a developer who’s seen the documentation.
Unlike last week, Apple has not updated iOS 7.1 to a new beta, nor has the company released a new Xcode 5.1 beta for developers. These downloads remain in place on Apple’s Dev Centers, as they were last week.
OS X Server 3.1 is also available for download in its February 4 form (13S4090c), and there is no new Apple TV Software beta either. OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 is at its sixth beta, whereas iOS 7.1 is at its fifth.
Developers looking to download OS X Mavericks for the first time must make sure they are using a 64-bit, Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X v10.6.7 (Snow Leopard) or later.
8GB of free disk space is required to install OS X Mavericks, and Xcode 5.0.1 (or newer) is needed to develop applications for the new desktop OS.