Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 'Finalized'? (Update: Not GM Yet)
The last publicly available Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seed (9A559) was released to developers on September 21st, 2007. There is no word whether or not this seed represents the "Gold Master".
Apple has previously announced that Leopard will be shipping in October, but no official release date has yet been set. Circulating rumors have pegged October 26th as the likely date for the launch.
Update: Since the story was originally published, we've heard from a couple of sources that internal Apple builds are still progressing and "Gold Master" has not yet been declared. I suspect we'll hear more in the next few days.
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A source tells AppleInsider that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is now "finalized" and that Apple has begun to provide Leopard-related support training materials to its support staff.
Among these initial training materials were self-paced training modules on some of the operating system's most popular features and components, such as installation methods, Mail and BootCamp.
The last full pre-release of Leopard arrived on September 21st, when Apple provided its vast developer community with Mac OS X Leopard build 9A559 in what was then assumed to be a release candidate.
A week later the company released a small automatic software update for build 9A559 but did not increase or otherwise change the Leopard build number as it had done in previous cases. Therefore, build 9A559 was the last known candidate to be declared Gold Master and released to manufacturing.
All signs have pointed to a public release of Leopard during the business week of Oct 22nd, with sources specifically singling out Oct 26 for the official launch.
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Meanwhile, AppleInsider has also heard that Apple on Tuesday pumped out two new builds of Mac OS X 10.4.11 -- widely expected to be the final update to the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.
The new builds -- 8S161 (for PowerPC Macs) and 8S2161 (for Intel Macs) -- focus primarily on Dashboard, according to some of the people testing the releases. This reportedly includes a fix the the software's underlying Webkit foundation and word of two existing issues with number-oriented widgets.
Mac OS X 10.4.11 is now set to deliver over four dozen minor bug fixes and code corrections to users of Mac OS X Tiger.
its getting harder and harder for apple to keep secret. Just waiting for the official release, any day now.
I'm pulling for an announcement tomorrow. 16 days in advance of the Friday the 26th release.
I'm pulling for an announcement tomorrow. 16 days in advance of the Friday the 26th release.
Why not Friday, Oct. 12? That's 14 days ahead.
I think I will wait a couple weeks though personally before installing.
Or a couple of minutes if photoshop cs 3 is fine with it.
Do they normally announce the final version is available the days it ships, or will they have another keynote showing off the final version?
they will prob. announce store events on day X later this month.
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