14 DAY TRIAL // Under a week from the release of the latest Mac OS X 10.5.6 beta build, Apple has seeded its developer community with another pre-release version of Mac OS X 10.5.6. The new build lists no known issues, which may or may not be an indication that development is wrapping up, World of Apple reports.
Apple has dedicated this build to addressing a large number of syncing issues with MobileMe, while the general focus areas include Address Book, Finder, iChat, iCal, Networking, Time Machine, and dozens of other core parts of Leopard, as usual. For MobileMe, Apple has included additional information, so that developers know exactly where to look and what to look for, the seed notes show. Apple reveals that users working behind a firewall (ie. corporate proxy) are likely to experience problems accessing the MobileMe cloud and syncing their stuff.
The seed notes for the newest build of the latest maintenance update for Leopard are available below, courtesy of the aforementioned source (excluding fixes from previous seeds).
Mac OS X 10.5.6 Build 9G38 Seed Notes
Known Issues
None
Focus Areas with Additional Information
MobileMe / Syncing:
Please help test MobileMe automatic syncing. We are particularly interested in testing automatic sync on portable computers and on networks with medium to high latency and/or constrained bandwidth. Please include the ~/Library/Logs/Sync/dotmacsync.log with any radars you file.
If you are working behind a firewall (ie. corporate proxy), we would like to know your experience with the syncing. If you have auto sync turned on, and you make a change from me.com, or MobileMe website, does that change sync within a reasonable amount of time? Also attempt general syncing of Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks and other sync data. Please watch for excessive syncing and file radars for any abnormal syncs.
AFP:
The 10.5.6 release includes changes to improve Time Machine reliability in both the AFP Client and Server. The changes in the client will detect conditions that lead to corruption of a Time Machine backup disk image and eject the AFP volume before damage to the disk image occurs.
Mail:
We need people who send messages entirely in non-Latin character sets, such as Hangul, Kotoeri, Traditional Chinese character sets. Including attachment names, punctuation, everything. We would also like to include those who send messages and enclosures in Latin character sets as well (French, German, Italian, etc). Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic would be another good set of writing systems to extensively test
General Focus Areas
AccountsPref
AddressBook
AFP
AirPort
apache
AppKit
AppleBacklight
AppleDictionary
AppleDisplays
AppleFWAudio
AppleGraphicsControl
AppleGraphicsPowerManagement
AppleHIDMouse
AppleHWRaidUtility
ApplicationFirewall
AppleWWANSupport
AutomatorActionsBinaries
ATS
Automator
backupd
BatteryMonitor
BezelServices
Bom
BomArchiveHelper
Bluetooth
BootCache
Calculator
CFNetwork
Chess
CoreAudio
CoreFoundation
CoreGraphics
CoreMidi
CoreServices
CoreTypes
cups
DirectoryService
DiscRecording
diskdev_cmds
DiskImages
Dock
DVDPlayer
DVDPlayback
Finder
Foundation
gnutar
GraphicsDrivers/OpenGL
HIToolbox
iCal
iChat
ImageCapture
Installation & Setup
IOSerialFamily
IOStorageFamily
Keyboard & Mouse
KeychainAccess
KeychainScripting
LoginWindow
MobileMe
Networking
Network File System
OpenSSH
Parental Controls
PDFKit
Printing
QuartzComposer
QuartzCore
RAWCameraSupport
Safari: HTTP Cookies, HTTP Proxies
SmartCardServices
Spaces
Spotlight Syncing
System Preferences
TimeMachine
TimeZoneData
udf
Video Conferencing
webdavfs
xnu
Areas of Change
Resolved issue with Automatic bookmark syncing and dotmacsyncclient
Fixed issue with Sync Services and slow sync prompt
Fixed issue with DVI and display detection
Issue with Superdrive and eject sound resolved
Fixed issue with MobileMe pref pane and periodic syncing
Fixed issue with printing a PDF file from Mail.app
Resolved issue with LaunchServices and downloading playlists
Resolved problem with Sync Services and calendar syncing
Whether or not Apple is prepping to “call it a build,” we'll make sure to post every detail about every new OS X build making its way onto developers' workstations. If we don't spot any clues that the public release is nearing, maybe you will.