Mac OS X v10.5.8 Ready For Download 152
mysqlbytes writes "Apple has posted an anticipated v10.5.8 patch for Mac OS X, updating a number of components in the operating system, one of their last updates to Leopard. The update brings improvements to Safari, Airport, Bluetooth, among others and rolls out the latest OS X security fixes." Worth glancing at are some of the security-related notes on the update.
Bad Summary... sigh (Score:5, Informative)
Last Updates - Hardly (Score:5, Informative)
Sure it is likely the last major update BEFORE Snow Leopard but it is certainly not the last update for leopard.
Also to the person who asked why link to the combo update as opposed to the smaller incremental: In my personal deployment experience the combo updates are much less likely to cause any problems when updating.
Re:nothing broke yet (Score:5, Informative)
My wife's Macbook (MB881LL/A, white, early 2009) updated earlier today (from software updates), and froze mid-installation of the update. When restarted, it would kernel panic saying the kernel signature didn't match the CPU.
I had to restart the mac with the shift key pressed (safe mode) and after aprox. 15 minutes of gray screen with the spinning circle, it restarted itself again and booted up correctly, saying that all is well and 10.5.8 is installed. I am still wary of what might have messed up in the process, but at least this may work for anyone else with the same problem.
Re:nothing broke yet (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Bad Summary... sigh (Score:5, Informative)
I would really recommend that everyone use the Combo updater, whether you need it or not....
Every time Apple releases an update, there are a bunch of small problems that occur to a minority of users, that are fixed by re-applying the Combo updater.
This has been standard procedure among Mac Techs for a number of years.
Re:nothing broke yet (Score:5, Informative)
Unfortunately, it looks like nothing important was fixed, either. The OpenGL bug on NVIDIA graphics cards [wz2100.net] is still there. :/
Re:BIND vulnerability not fixed? (Score:3, Informative)
I'm not sure if Apple has any specific meaning to their Major.Minor.Maintenance(.Build) that you might be referring to, but this to me certainly seems worthy of a 0.0.1 (10.5.7 to 10.5.8)... It doesn't add any significant new features (as a 0.1.0 would/should), basically just bug fixes and tweaks. What would you suggest? 10.5.7.5.xxxx?
Re:One must wonder, (Score:5, Informative)
I'd expect it to be like any other OS X release: Full support as long as it's the leading version, followed by limited support (just security updates) when it's the previous version, and finally all support is dropped when it's two versions back. So its support life would be as long as 10.6 is the leading version.
Spotlight WTF (Score:4, Informative)
I disagree, my system is bogging heavily due to the fact that spotlight has decided to reindex my entire 2 terabyte filesystem.
Reports on macintouch corroborate this behavior.
Re:nothing broke yet (Score:5, Informative)
You need to download the 10.5.8 standalone installer and try it again. On some of the updates (10.5.6, 10.5.7?) your computer is supposed to restart once or twice before it boots up normally. I rarely, if ever, have problems with the standalone installers (the only issue is that they are big downloads).
-HTH
Re:Wow, that was fast (Score:3, Informative)
Re:One must wonder, (Score:4, Informative)
If anything, it'll have a shorter lifecycle than previous versions, I think.
Why? Because you already have both 10.5 and a PPC. You don't have the latest, greatest Apple product, so you will not be giving them any more money.
The crazy thing about Macs is that, once Apple stops offering support/releases a new OS, you can rarely find applications - even the ones you'd used previosuly on the same OS - for them. Companies upgrade their products to -only- support the new system. A year ago I was looking for some software (any software, really) for a 10.4 machine. Guess what? Most downloadable/free stuff was Universal Binary only, and very few commercial products supported 10.4. Why? It's not that old.
Re:One must wonder, (Score:4, Informative)
Because CoreData and the other improvements to the API and Xcode are useful. If y'all are programming for free, or nearly free (shareware), there's not much incentive to use older tools.
Re:Spotlight WTF (Score:4, Informative)
huh... as a temporary fix for others... go and edit your spotlight indexing preferences so that it does not index your entire 2TB filesystem (maybe some subset).
Go to Spotlight in System Prefs and click on Privacy... then add whatever folders you DON'T want indexed.
Re:nothing broke yet (Score:3, Informative)
Mine appeared to freeze, as well, but I left it alone, and after about 5-10 minutes, it finished, rebooted, and all was well.
How long did you wait to see if it was, indeed, frozen? I was just at the point of considering powering it off, myself, when it continued on its own.
Re:One must wonder, (Score:3, Informative)
lolwhut? Nobody forced you to upgrade past 8.1 if you had a 68K Mac, and dropping support for the old ones was necessary to speed up the newer PPC Macs, because prior to that release a bunch of code was unoptimized or just 68K code running in emulation.
Much like 10.5 and PPC Macs, really. Don't know if you've used Leopard on a PPC Mac, but even dual G5s can be a bit poky compared to Intel Macs, and forget about running it on a G4.