14 DAY TRIAL // As indicated earlier this week, Apple has begun internal testing of the next incremental update to Lion, the company’s year-old operating system about to be replaced by Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the Mac OS.
Testers have reportedly been asked to focus their coding skills on areas like graphics performance and quality, as well as networking reliability and network performance.
Another focus area is importing, editing and viewing of images and media, according to people familiar with the software speaking to AppleInsider on the condition of anonymity.
Developers can download the OS X 10.7.5 beta over at Apple's Mac Dev Center.
The 10.7.5 update is expected to be a minor one, if not downright insignificant, with less than a month away from the release of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).
It mostly has to do with the fact that most Lion users will probably upgrade to the new OS the moment it hits the App Store. As for Snow Leopard customers, their path is clear to perform a direct upgrade to Mountain Lion – no Lion installation required to upgrade from OS X 10.6 to OS X 10.8.
A screenshot from Apple’s Developer Connection site shows a (typing) mistake in the downloads bar for OS X 10.7.5 Lion. While the build number is correct (11G15), the version number is still 10.7.4.
However, that typo won’t affect the actual bits inside the disk images put up for grabs by the Cupertino, California-based computer giant. Additionally, the description accurately mentions the latest version number:
“OS X Software Update 10.7.5 is an update to OS X Lion 10.7. Please refer to the seed note for more details and installation instructions.”
The downloads are: OS X Lion Software Update 10.7.5 build 11G15 Combo Update, and OS X Lion Software Update 10.7.5 build 11G15 Delta Update. The seed note is there as well, though no developers have so far leaked the full changelog.
