Apple Seeds First Beta of OS X 10.8.3 to Developers

Monday November 26, 2012 9:22 am PST by Eric Slivka

Fresh off its Thanksgiving holiday, Apple today seeded developers with the first test build of OS X 10.8.3.

The first beta of OS X 10.8.3 arrives as Build 12D32, and users are required to install the OS X Software Update Seed Configuration Utility in order to upgrade to the build.

Areas of focus for testing include AirPlay, AirPort, Game Center, and Graphics Drivers.

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NoIdeasOriginal

18 months ago

Hoping the slow shutdown times are addressed in this release.

Rating: 17 Positives

RoelJuun

18 months ago

Please fix:

[LIST]
[*]Messages, messages is a mess
[*]Slow shutdown times
[*]Laggy mouse behavior when taking a screenshot
[*]Bad drivers when running dual monitor setup
[*]Invisible cursor when coming from a fullscreen application
[*]Random re-indexing of Spotlight
[*]Time Machine backup disks change name to random names
[*]Slow animations when used for the first time in a while
[*]Load times of Safari is sometimes long for no good reason
[*]Make the stacks in the Dock better, when watching a downloading file you can't open it when having the stack open. Make it live.
[*]Add a simple 'location' option in Calendar that let's you pick a contact from the Contacts app.
[*]App Store is slow.
[/LIST]

Thanks.

Rating: 13 Positives

BWhaler

18 months ago

Let's hope this is the update which fixes all of the visual flaws. (leather flap covering part of the notes list, reminders being the only app not going full screen, the peculiar choices full screen switching makes with itunes and others, etc., etc., etc.)

oh, and I hope it fixes the sporadically missing mouse cursor problem.

Rating: 10 Positives

50548

18 months ago

PLEASE fix the mdworker/sandboxing/sleep issues; the rest is fine, thank you.

Rating: 9 Positives

plasticphyte

18 months ago

Hey Apple, how about fixing the full screen problem where if you have more than one monitor and you go full screen in an app, you can no longer use all the other screens because your $#!t ass OS thinks everybody uses one monitor.

To paraphrase a Futurama meme:
Your software is bad.

And you should feel bad!

Rating: 8 Positives

Syndra

18 months ago

I'm all ears about those graphic drivers updates.

Rating: 8 Positives

Gasu E.

18 months ago

where is itunes 11?

That will be one louder.

Rating: 7 Positives

iMikeT

18 months ago

So fast. Next thing we know 10.9 will be here!

Rating: 7 Positives

atMac

18 months ago

SEED NOTES

Known Issues
- Safari 6.0.2 will not be offered to systems with 10.8.3 installed. Before installing 10.8.3 12D32, update to the latest Safari. - Software Update Preference contents may be shifted, especially with non-English localizations.
- After waking from sleep, some background graphics may draw in black or transparently.
- When switching between applications using Command+Tab, the icons may draw in black.

Focus Areas
- AirPlay
- AirPort
- Game Center
- Graphics Drivers

Rating: 6 Positives

Kariya

18 months ago

I'm all ears about those graphic drivers updates.

hehehe me too! :eek:

Well they seem to have updated drivers somewhat

Rating: 5 Positives

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