14 DAY TRIAL // Just last week we were able to confirm that Apple was testing Mac OS X 10.5.3, said to pack over 75 bug fixes, including memory leaks in CoreAnimation and iCal. The second developer release, 9D11, comes mere days after the first (9D10). Apple sure isn't wasting any time with the last maintenance update for Leopard users.
Build 9D10 addresses the most important pieces that make up Leopard: AddressBook, AppleScript, Audio, Back To My Mac, Dashboard, the Dock, DVD Player, Finder, Graphics, iCal, Mail, Portable Home Directories, Printing, Rosetta, Spaces, Spotlight, Time Machine, and VoiceOver; these are just some of the components that need evaluation. Dashboard, iCal alarms and syncing, Installer App, Spotlight indexing, PDFs within the Preview App, Mail alarms, Spaces, Stacks and the Dock are in for a major pest control. Memory leaks in CoreAnimation and iCal are also being dealt with, according to the last seeded build.
"Hot on the heels of the 9D10 seed, Apple appears to be working aggressively on the next version of Mac OS X with a new developer release (9D11) only days after the first," MacRumors reveals.
Yet other 19 fixes could be found in the latest seed which asks developers to pay special attention to Leopard features including AirPort, Dashboard, Back To My Mac, Automator, iCal, Printing, Time Machine and, of course, others. As of build 9D11, there are no known issues, so you may very well expect a soon arrival of the software update.
As the source website reveals, it is uncommon for Apple to act so fast in such early development stages unless, of course, the Cupertino-based company is planning to roll out OS X 10.5.3 ASAP. It makes you wonder: is there something else that Apple is quietly fixing so they don't have to respond to complaints?
Surely that's not the case this time. Mac users are no strangers to maintenance updates such as this. Still, OS X 10.5.3 is indeed coming rather close to 10.5.2, which saw a February release. So what's the rush?