14 DAY TRIAL // Following the Snow Leopard showcase at WWDC 09, Apple immediately started equipping its developers with new builds of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The latest incremental update to the software, labeled Mac OS X 10.5.8 Build 9L16, asks devs to focus on key areas including AirPort, ColorSync, AppKit, AddressBook, Safari and USB.
As usual, the folks at World of Apple have been quick to provide the seed notes for the latest beta build of OS X Leopard, which reveal just one known issue and around two dozen fixed issues from previous seeds. Particularly, the issue plaguing this early build of Mac OS X 10.5.8 is a missing built-in audio in System Prefs after reboot. The complete seed notes for build 9L16, available courtesy of the aforementioned web site, can be found below.
Known Issues
For some Mac Pros (early 2009) with USB audio device attached, built-in audio is missing in System Preferences after reboot.
General Focus Areas
AddressBook AirPort AppKit ColorSync CoreAUC FileSync Foundation iCal ImageIO Kernel Mail Mass Storage MobileMe Pref Pane Networking Safari Security System Profiler Audio USB
Areas of Change
Address Book Sharing now retains settings for MobileMe clients after relaunch Accessing 802.1X tab in Airport Advanced Network setting in System Preferences freeze fix Fixed ‘file in use’ errors on logout sync when SMB portable homes on NetApp Safari and ImageIO compatibility fix ImageIO and heap buffer overflow fix libpng image corruption fix Signing out of MobileMe pref pane now removes certificate and private key from keychain Fixed errors with /usr/sbin/system_profiler loading SPAudioReporter on PPC Fixed issue with streaming from some USB webcam after waking from sleep Fixed issue with some Bluetooth devices suddenly not working
Issues fixed in previous seeds
Resolved issue with changelogs and iDisk syncing Issue with CalDAV and meeting mismatches fixed Fixed memory leak issue with CoreData Framework Issue with iCal Synchronization and time syncing resolved Resolved issue with Image RAW and CEmbeddedTIFFThumbnail Fixed issue with SearchKit and Safari history searches Issue with AFP Server and TimeMachine syncing fixed Issue with HICocoaView and parent window positioning resolved HICocoaView Shift-Tab focus issue in NSForm views fixed Issue with simultaneous logins and LoginWindow resolved Resolved drawing performance issue with multiple HICocoaViews in a single Carbon window Fixed issue where Startup Items on Network Home Folder were not being executed in certain situations Issue with DictionaryTrainer and Japanese Language Analysis resolved Issue with LoginWindow UI and wireless logins fixed Issue with messages sent to deallocated NSTreeControllerTreeNode in CD/bindings app fixed Fixed issue with SpotlightIndex and index rebuilding Formatting issue with USB MSC fixed Issue with NFS indexing and File Systems resolved Fixed issue where system may not sleep second time in certain situations Resolved issue with Spotlight and MDItemCopyAttribute Fixed issue with DHCP Client and 802.1X integration Fixed authentication issue with CFNetwork HTTPAuthentication and ISA 2006 proxy servers Resolved issue with Sync Services Preferences Sync and automatic syncing Issue with CoreAudio and network MIDI drivers fixed Fixed problem where iCal sync may fail when moving events to different calendars Issue with DisplayPort->DVI/VGA adapters resolved Problem with Garbage Collection and NSImage fixed. Mac OS X 10.5.8 is the latest incremental update to OS X 10.5 Leopard. The Software update should arrive before Snow Leopard’s official debut in September, although Apple has been known to require more intensive testing occasionally, so its release date cannot be accurately determined.