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Apple Preparing to Seed Developer Builds of Mac OS X 10.6.5

MacRumors has received word that Apple is gearing up to begin seeding certain developers with builds of Mac OS X 10.6.5, the fifth maintenance release for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. While the release has undoubtedly been under development for some time, only now is it approaching a state where it is ready for testing by third-party developers. Through the testing program, Apple will gain feedback on areas where it has made changes as well as other areas requiring its attention, allowing the company to tweak things until it is satisfied enough to make a public release of the update.

The length of time any one update spends in developer testing is highly variable, and thus we do not yet have an estimation of when Mac OS X 10.6.5 might become available to the general public. We do believe, however, that the first developers to get their hands on the testing builds may see something later this week.

Mac OS X 10.6.4 was released in mid-June and brought fixes for a number of issues.

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20 months ago
It seems to be a massive rumor day for Apple today :) Always good to see an update.
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20 months ago
meh. i wanna see 10.7:D
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20 months ago
Will Apple fix the VPN DNS bugs this time round?
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20 months ago
Fix the battery life.
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20 months ago
Drivers for the new graphics cards.
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20 months ago
I'm just going to lay this out:

10.7, whenever we see it, is going to be REALLY jolting to long time mac users. Given the direction that the company is heading with consumer devices and iOS, I think 10.7 is going to be a lot of that, and not much else.

Touch everywhere.
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20 months ago
Good to know, I think this update is clearly for the upcoming imacs :]
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20 months ago

Good to know, I think this update is clearly for the upcoming imacs :]


I agree with you. The new iMac's are definitely going to be part of the reason for this update. Lets hope we get some updated graphics card drivers please :(
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20 months ago
hope they just send the next update not be a 600+ Mb i didn't update my mac to 10.6.4 'cause the internet connection in my country is extremely slow and it goes off every now n then ! :S
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20 months ago
Love to see updates...although between home and work I have 10 machines to update. Takes a while. :)
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