14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of iTunes is available for download onto Mac and Windows computers, courtesy of Apple. iTunes 11.1.5 is only the latest in a long string of updates released by the Cupertino computer giant this week.
According to the iTunes 11.1.5 documentation on Apple Support, “This update fixes a problem that may cause iTunes to quit unexpectedly when a device is connected and improves compatibility with iBooks for Mac on OS X Mavericks.”
For Windows customers, the same build delivers fixes for an issue with inputting Japanese text in iTunes Store text fields. The same problem that may cause iTunes to unexpectedly quit is also addressed on Windows.
iTunes 11.1.5 weighs in at 232.7 MB on OS X computers, 137.7 MB on Windows 32-bit, and 148.9 MB on Windows 64-bit.
Although the update targets the latest version of Apple’s Mac operating system, it can be applied on all Macintosh computers with Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later installed.
For PC customers, Windows XP Service Pack 2 is the minimum spec. The new build also goes onto 32-bit editions of Windows Vista or 32-bit editions of Windows 7 and Windows 8. Supported languages include Deutsch, English, Français, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Dansk, Norsk Bokmål, Polski, Português, Português (Brasil), Pусский, Suomi, Svensk, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and others.
iTunes 11.1.5 supersedes version 11.1.4, which Apple rolled out in late January, adding the ability to see your Wish List while viewing your iTunes library.
The update, released for Mac and Windows at that time, also improves support for Arabic and Hebrew, and “includes additional stability improvements,” according to the company.
For customers who haven’t updated in a while, this new version of iTunes further “resolves an issue where the equalizer may not work as expected and improves performance when switching views in large iTunes libraries,” according to Apple’s January changelog.
A KB article posted at the time revealed that iTunes had been affected by a number of security issues. One such vulnerability was described as follows:
“The contents of the iTunes Tutorials window are retrieved from the network using an unprotected HTTP connection. An attacker with a privileged network position may inject arbitrary contents. This issue was addressed by using an encrypted HTTPS connection to retrieve tutorials.”
Affecting only Windows customers, another flaw would allow a man-in-the-middle attack while browsing the iTunes Store via iTunes. Multiple memory corruption issues existed in libxml, all of which were addressed by updating libxml to version 2.9.0.