Mac OS X 10.5.7 progressing towards release

By Stephen Withers
Monday, 09 March 2009 04:29

Opinion and Analysis

A fresh developer build of Mac OS X 10.5.7 appeared just one week after the first. Does this mean the update isn't far away?

Various niggling issues have been identified in Mac OS X 10.5.6, so even with the debut of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard expected in the coming months it was clear that it would not be the last in the 10.5 line.

Late last week, 10.5.7 build 9J27 went out to Apple's third-party development community for testing purposes.

Developer builds give developers an opportunity to provide feedback to Apple based on their testing and to get started on any revisions to their own programs required by the updated operating system.

According to the seed notes accompanying 9J27 (as published by World of Apple), the new build fixes at least nine issues present in 9J22.

These include certain problems relating to synchronisation, Time Capsule and parental controls.

It's not clear from the notes whether or not Apple is convinced that a tenth issue - "with AC interrupts and Sleep/Wake" - has actually been fixed.

Which functions are developers being asked to focus on, and when might 10.5.7 arrive? See page 2.