14 DAY TRIAL // Select Apple developers reportedly received a beta build of the second maintenance update for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on Monday. According to people familiar with the software, dozens of minor bug fixes and performance improvements are listed in the seed notes. Mac OS X 10.6.2 will be the second incremental update to Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard.
Officially labeled 10C514f, the build is said to include tweaks to everything from the Address Book to Bluetooth and USB drivers, Xtype, AppleScript and OpenCL. According to AppleInsider, which cites those familiar with the build, the 10.6.2 update currently has a handful of pre-release (known) issues, “including hang-ups with the DVD player, crashing of the parental controls preference pane, and a glitch where the system does not recognize an optical drive.”
Citing other reports, Modmyi reveals that Build 10C514f of OS X 10.6.2 lists a wide range of fixes / tweaks to areas including the Address Book, AppleScript, AppleScriptObjC, ATS, ColorSync, Component Manager, Core Animation, Core Audio, Core Chinese Engine, Core Data, Core Graphics, Core Text, File Manager, Garbage Collection, Graphic drivers, Help Viewer, ImageKit, IOHIDFamily, Networking, NS Image, OpenCL, OpenGL, OSA, QT Kit, Speech Recognition, Sync Services, and Xtype. Reportedly, the disk image is 445.4MB in size.
While Mac OS X 10.6.1 was made public mere days after the official launch of Apple’s Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6.2 may see a much longer development cycle, given the lengthy list of known issues, as well as the possibility of new bugs emerging between seeds. Currently, there is no prognosis as to when the software will be publicly available. Also, the official seed notes may emerge as well. If and when they do, Softpedia will be publishing a separate report with the documentation in question, for a better view of the changes undergone by Snow Leopard.