“Less than two weeks after releasing Mac OS X 10.3.6, Apple is already circulating builds of a successive update to its Panther OS,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. “Apple Computer late last week began internally distributing the first builds of Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update, the next maintenance release for the company’s Mac OS X 10.3 ‘Panther’ operating system.”
“According to the usual suspects, the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.3.7 belong to the ‘7S20x’ milestone and arrive in the form of a 15MB Mac OS X image. The software requires approximately 50MB for installation,” Jade reports. “While details surrounding these very early builds are scant, sources say Mac OS X 10.3.7 will deliver enhancements to FireWire Audio, OpenGL, CoreGraphics, Multicast DNS, mLAN Audio, CoreFoundation, and AppKit.”
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Because of the above I NEVER install an incremental update but wait for the COMBO to be released.
I have no idea of all these glitches people complain about at each update because of the above. Never had one single incident.
Having said that, do as you like.
On message above at 07:00 am the
“each incremental update disappear” should read:
“each incremental update GLITCH disappears”
The 10.3.6 combo did not remove the slow start-up problem.
Hi Peter,
do you have anything like a remote mounted volume or AFS (OpenAFS installed).
You could investigate the start-up problem with the Verbose option.
Boot with Cmnd-V, it will start in text mode before switching to quartz-wm and you could then detect which process is delaying things.
Thanks a lot. I have no network and the only remote volume could be the iMac copy synced to my desktop. Anyway I have removed all trace of 10.3.6 so don’t want to fiddle around any more, But MacFixit has a discussion on this topic and your idea might help them. Their description of the start-up problem is eactly what I experienced.
These updates seem to be putting Panther’s core technologies more inline with Tiger’s, so when Tiger-tested software comes out, it will work fine on Panther, too. It’d be great to see a free Panther release to bring everyone up to at least that level.
I feel a very early Tiger release coming…
Imagine the PR blow to Gates & Co. if Apple’s major upgrade is 6 months AHEAD of the promised date, late 2004 rather than early 2005, while Gates’ minions remain standing there, dumbfounded, scratching their collective nutsacs.
I hope it makes all of the news broadcasts…
“Today, Apple released the next generation of their operating system for their Macintosh line of computers, covering their entire line from home computers to servers and super computers. With an advanced search feature named ‘Spotlight’ it is no longer necessary to remember where you placed a file. Code named ‘Tiger’, OS 10.4 is being released 6 months earlier than their original announcement. Although still in the minority, Apple stock is on the rise, far ahead of the industry’s average. Their computers continue to show an apparent immunity to the viruses and spyware plaguing the rest of the world, as they bring imagination and advanced innovation to the computer community. Apple’s competition, Microsoft’s ‘Longhorn’, is still projected to be released sometime in mid 2006. But to meet this deadline, earlier this year Microsoft decided to exclude major features proving to be too problematic, such as advanced file searching.”
I, too, experience problems with the 10.3.6 upgrade. The Safari problem is especially frustrating. My brother, a switcher, will be setting up his new DP G5 soon and I am advising him to install everything in Software Update EXCEPT the 10.3.6 upgrade. I hope that the 10.3.7 update will be primarily a fix, perhaps adding a handful of other things that Apple had in the works anyway.
Aryugaetu,
That is a cool Press Release, can’t wait to see if it happens!
A+Switcher
“My cursor vanishes when I hover over my back button in safari isince 10.3.6 was installed. Anyone else with the same problem?
YES! I thought I was the only one. When I bring it over the back button or the text resize buttons it disappears. Started with 10.3.6 but it doesn’t always happen. I can still click on the button by guessing where the cursor is.
Vanishing cursor seems to be only in the detail MDN pages like this one. If I go back to the main page seems ok. l then come back here, not ok. If I go from here to another site it’s ok again. Interesting.