Update: Devs Leak New Details on Mac OS X 10.6.7 10J846

Five days after the first OS X 10.6.7 seed was reportedly out, Apple handed developers a second beta of the software, asking them to focus their testing efforts on the new Mac App Store, as well as a bunch of other core system components.

As reported by Softpedia yesterday, the seed notes accompanying the build in question indicated that the only change from the previous build was the addition of the Mac App Store as a focus area for Apple’s developer community.

A Server version of the 10.6.7 update was also released on Tuesday, according to a report by AppleInsider citing people familiar with the software.

While the Client build reportedly listed no known issues, it was said that the Server update listed one known issue - “clients may fail to NetBoot from NetRestore image of 10.6.6 created with Mac OS X Server 10.6.6.”

However, it has recently been revealed that the Client version of Mac OS X 10.6.7 Build 10J846 also suffers from an issue.

According to the folks at World of Apple, who make a habit out of posting the seed notes accompanying every developer build coming out of Cupertino, the Client Mac OS X 10.6.7 suffers from a “Panic when connecting to SMB servers.”

The site adds that the new build remains under 400MB for the delta update, and over 1GB in size for the combo update. The alleged seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6.7 build 10J846 are posted as follows (highlight ours):

Known Issues
- Panic when connecting to SMB servers

Focus Areas
- Mac App Store
- AirPort
- Bonjour
- SMB
- Graphics Drivers.

In addition to this recent discovery, an AppleInsider reader has reported that "both the standard version and the server version are being posted by Apple simultaneously and with the same build date.”

A first for Apple, “This differs from past betas of Mac OS X, going back years, when the server version was not available until at least a day after the standard version,” this person reportedly pointed out.

The person, presumably knowledgeable in such matters, believes that the build process has been streamlined, which should help Apple developers focusing on addressing security issues.