Apple Accelerates Mac OS X 10.6.5 Developer Seeds With Build 10H562
According to reports, the latest build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 continues to cite no documented known issues and once again asks developers to focus their testing on 3D Graphics, Printing, QuickTime, Time Machine, and USB Devices.
Apple initially seeded Mac OS X 10.6.5 builds at approximately one-week intervals beginning in mid-August, but switched to two-week intervals in early September and used that schedule for the previous three seeds. The switch to back to a one-week interval suggests that Apple may be putting the final touches on the release in advance of a public release to support iOS 4.2 when that update launches next month.
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Why does it seem like a higher number of test builds than usual? Maybe I'm just noticing them more lately. Not sure why. Higher than average reporting on these builds?
This is a whole lot of testing. :p
Why does it seem like a higher number of test builds than usual? Maybe I'm just noticing them more lately. Not sure why. Higher than average reporting on these builds?
Not higher reporting, you're right. I'm a tester, and we've been getting them faster lately.
I wonder if X-Plane 9 can benefit from these (probably) updated drivers. Getting the (still not available) 5870 for my 2008 8 Core 2.8 Mac Pro over my 4870 won't help for X-Plane... :(
Anybody able to corroborate this?
Unless I'm mistaken, developers getting the test builds aren't allowed to discuss them, or even confirm what bugfixes are included.
That's too bad, too, as I'm waiting to see whether 10.6.5 fixes the HDMI audio glitch they introduced with 10.6.4. If it doesn't, it'll be back to 10.6.3 for me ...
I'm crossing my fingers for Tuesday as well, but any word yet of the openGL-support+version in this build? Specificially GLSL 1.3 and uniform_buffer extensions? Rob Barris of Valve's support forums wouldn't get specific about the performance, only saying that it hadn't regressed since the Snow Leopard Graphics Update. On top of that, Blizzard's now requiring 10.6.5 in the newest Warcraft expansion, implying that some of their new graphics effects benefit performance-wise from the update. Anybody able to corroborate this? Have a nice weekend everyone!
Well OpenGL 3.0 is not there yet (still missing GLSL 1.3), but performance of the OpenGL stack that is implemented is dramatically better than in 10.6.4 (even with the "Graphics Update").[ Read All Comments ]
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