Seed Notes Now Available for the Latest Snow Leopard Build (10A335)

As reported earlier today, Apple has seeded its developer community with a new beta build of Snow Leopard. The build features no significant changes, while Apple continues to ask developers to test any 64-bit kernel extensions that their third-party products will require under the new OS. The build number was correctly predicted by AppleInsider earlier this week.

The seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A335, courtesy of World of Apple, contain only the issues known to have been plaguing beta versions recently seeded to developers. The bugs affecting build 10A335 include crashes in QuickTime X player, application crashes under Rosetta, problems with the Migration Assistant and some rather strange errors in Disk Utility, according to AppleInsider.

Before the seed notes were made public, people familiar with the software also revealed that, along the new client beta of Snow Leopard, came an identically labeled (10A335) build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server. However, “unlike the client release, Apple is reported to have mentioned a handful of advances new to the build,” the AppleInsider report reveals.

World of Apple chimes in noting that the latest Snow Leopard build marks an increase in the pace of delivery by Apple, in what looks like an attempt to wrap up the development for the WWDC '09 showcase. The site also points out to the lack of new additions / observable changes, while Apple continues to press developers to test 64-bit kernel extensions. Without further ado, the seed notes for Snow Leopard Beta Build 10A335 are available below.

Known Issues

· Migrating users over a network connection may result in a hang. Connect the machines via Firewire to workaround this.
· It may take several minutes to get to the Mac OS X Installer when using a DVD.
· Some settings such as Mobile Me login info and Keyboard settings are not migrated correctly.
· Some Rosetta applications crash on launch.
· ‘Repair Permissions’ in Disk Utility reports spurious errors.
· configd crashes can cause DNS lookups to fail.
· Custom install sizes are sometimes inaccurate, which may result in the Install Assistant failing due to disk space issues.
· Quicktime Player X may crash when playing DRM-protected content in 64-bit.
· PowerPC apps are crashing for some users after installing Rosetta. Running ’sudo update_dyld_shared_cache’ in Terminal and then rebooting will typically work around this. Note that you will be prompted for your admin password.

Apple is believed to require at least two extra months to polish up the software between the WWDC '09 showcase and the official public release. Estimates put the Snow Leopard public release in the August-September timeframe.