Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 which are recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
This is the mother of all Mac OS X updates.
What’s included in Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Client):
Active Directory
• Addresses issues which could hinder or prevent binding Mac OS X 10.5.x clients to Active Directory domains.
AirPort
• Improves connection reliability and stability
• Includes 802.1X improvements.
• Resolves certain kernel panics.
Back to my Mac
• Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
Dashboard
• Improves performance of certain Apple Dashboard widgets (such as Dictionary).
• Addresses an issue in which Dashboard widgets may no longer be accessible after switching to or from an account that has Parental Controls enabled.
Dock
• Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view. (Ladies and gentlemen, Stacks are no longer virtually useless!)
Desktop
• Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
• Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
iCal
• Improves iCal so that it accurately reflects responses to recurring meetings.
• Addresses an issue in which a meeting may remain on the calendar after being cancelled.
• Addresses stability issues related to .Mac syncing of iCal calendars.
• Resolves an intermittent issue in which editing an event with attendees would cause the event to shrink and not register that the event was updated.
iChat
• Addresses an issue with simultaneously-logged in accounts in which iChat sounds generated from one account might be heard in another account.
• Fixes an issue in which iChat idle time is affected by Time Machine backups.
• Improves connectivity when running iChat behind a router that doesn’t preserve ports.
• Enables logged chats from previous versions of iChat to open faster and more reliably.
• Addresses an issue with text chats in which users may be unable to receive messages from the sender.
• Addresses an issue that may prevent rejoining an AIM chat room without reopening iChat.
• Addresses video chat compatibility issues with AIM 6 and third-party routers.
• Fixes an issue with case-sensitivity of AIM handles.
iSync
• Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
Finder
• Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when displaying folder contents in Column view.
• Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when accessing Users and Groups in a Get Info pane.
• Resolves an issue that prevented setting permissions on a folder alias.
• Resolves an issue in which the Eject command could write to a disc in the optical drive.
• Fixes an issue in which the scroll bar might disappear when deleting a file within a folder that includes files that are out of view.
• Fixes an issue in the Sharing & Permissions section of Get Info windows, in which the gear icon appears to be gray/disabled after authentication.
• Addresses an issue in which the Show Icon Preview preference might not be not saved when turning it off.
• Fixes an issue that could occur when trying to print an image from the Finder.
Mail
• Addresses an issue with Message menu’s Mark > As Read choice.
• Fixes an issue in which duplicate On My Mac folders may appear in the sidebar after upgrading to Leopard.
• Improves the accuracy of the Data Detectors feature.
• Resolves an issue with scrolling through a Note that is displayed using the split view in the message window.
• Fixes an issue with deleting messages located in the Drafts folder.
• Fixes an issue in which dragging the icon in the Safari URL field into a Mail message creates an attachment instead of a link.
• Addresses an issue found when opening a item in the Notes folder that is not a Note.
• Fixes an issue that may prevent RSS feeds from being delivered in Mail.
• Resolves an issue in which a selected message could “flash” from blue to gray when in Organize by Thread mode.
• Fixes an issue with scrolling between multiple To Dos in an email message.
• Fixes an issue in which the body of email messages with certain MIME structures may not be displayed.
• Improves performance with America Online (AOL) account-based messages in Mail.
• Addresses issues with some ISPs during automatic set-up in Mail.
• Addresses an issue in which Mail might not send mail on some networks to some SMTP servers.
• Mail now automatically disables the (unsupported) third-party plugin GrowlMail version 1.1.2 or earlier to avoid issues.
• Adds an option to view large icons in the Mailbox list.
Networking
• Addresses a hanging issue that may occur when connecting to an AFP network volume.
• Parental Controls
• Improves stability when opening the Parental Controls System Preferences pane.
• Fixes an issue that may prevent changes to the email address for permission requests.
• Addresses an issue with printer administration for a guest account enabled with Parental Controls.
• Addresses an issue with setting printer administration privileges from another Mac on the local network.
• Fixes an issue that could prevent certain applications from being allowed.
• Addresses accuracy issues with the web content filter.
Preview
• Improves stability when scrolling through a PDF document.
• Fixes an issue that prevents tabbing within a PDF document after clicking on the PDF.
• Improves the Mail Document feature so that email attachments are more reliably created from Print Preview.
Printing
• Addresses an issue in which remote printers may be deleted when the computer is put to sleep.
• Improves printing performance when using some Microsoft Office applications.
• Resolves an issue with some printing options, such as landscape orientation, number of copies, two-sided printing, and so forth that may not have functioned with some printers shared by Microsoft Windows.
• Adds support for certain printers connected to the USB port of an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express base station.
• Resolves a stalling issue that could occur when installing certain Canon printing software from a disc.
RAW Image
• Adds RAW image support for several cameras, as detailed in this article.
Safari
• Addresses issues with Safari reliably resolving certain domains.
Login and Setup Assistant
• Addresses an issue in which Setup Assistant could unexpectedly appear each time Mac OS X 10.5 starts up.
• Improves stability and performance during log in.
System
• Improves the accuracy of the grammar checker.
• The computer will now shut down if an automatic disk repair does not succeed during startup.
Time Machine
• Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences).
• Improves backup reliability when computer name contains slash or non-ASCII characters.
• Fixes an issue in which the backup disk displayed in the Finder may be out of sync with the disk chosen for Time Machine.
• Addresses issues in which some external drives are not recognized by Time Machine.
• The status menu now appears by default.
Other
• Improves general stability when running third-party applications.
• Addresses an issue in which the incorrect search results may be displayed for certain Automator Find/Filter actions.
• Addresses an issue with the Latvian and Russian keyboard layouts.
• Addresses an issue in which the backlight could turn off before Energy Saver’s backlight setting.
Once Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update is applied, Software Update will expect users to download and install a separate graphics driver update, Leopard Graphics Update.
Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 are available via Software Update and also as standalone installers.
More info and download links:
• Mac OS X 10.5.2 Combo Update (343MB)
• Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 Combo Update(382MB)
My snapping turtle is snappier.
Will there be an OS X update for my iPhone to come?
. . . downloading Mac OS X now
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the download speed from Apple is fast, I’m impressed!
And I thought that only MSoft was capable of so much crap that needed so much fixing. What else do we have to endure before 10.5 is all it is suppose to be?
@Man o Man,
This is normal for software development. It’s not a black and white world, you doorknob.
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lol
I guess this means that Leopard is now ready.
“Will everybody now agree with what I’ve been saying: Leopard was not ready when it was launched forcing the largest public beta testing in the history of operating systems on any platform.”
Sorry Man, but I’ve been using OS X since it first came out, every single version and every single update. And Leopard was NOT a Beta in my opinion, any more than any of the other versions. None of which did I ever have a single significant problem. Glitches yeah, and some annoyances, but nothing I couldn’t live with.
You want BETA go take a look at VISTA because you are barking up the wrong tree!!
Now I want 10.5.3.
When is 10.5.3 going to be released?
funny Apple has pushed out 2 updates and poor ole vista just doesn’t know how to stop the bleeding. HAHA. Oh yeah my mac is much much snappier now.
Started download at 4:25 CST.
Took 7 minutes at megs down.
Reboot, download and all took 14 minutes.
7 megs down
sorry.
Yup – I was talking to my dad just last night about when to upgrade to Leopard and I told him – wait for the next update. Well, I guess we didn’t have to wait too long…
Mostly great stuff, but why the heck doesn’t this allow Time Machine to work with any hard drive plugged into the USB of an Airport??? (as also pointed out by Chris above).
I’m starting to fear that Apple is just doing this to sell its new Airports with Time Machine hard drives built in–not consumer-friendly, Apple…
Finder>List View!!!
I could kiss the feet of the man/woman/it responsible for that one.
Anyone else sit at the “configuring installation” screen for a long time before giving up. Why does it seem like Apple’s been taking cues from Microsoft on software update lately. I wish we could still get a “your updates are installed, please restart” prompt instead of a “please stop using your computer while we download and install this 180 MB file”.
In response to “Man o Man” and “Peterson”,
Like “auren”, I too have had OS X since within a week of its release. There has been nothing “beta” about my user experience on Leopard. Some occasional minor inconveniences, to be sure, but nothing as debilitating or maddening as what Vista users have had to deal with.
Just one example to jog your memory: the unending wait for file copies, moves or deletes in Vista (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/15/vistas_long_goodbye_continues/) – has Leopard suffered from anything remotely as crippling as this? No, it has not. And this is just one of many examples. Vista is the public beta masquerading as a finished product, not Leopard.
Furthermore, while Apple can deliver updates to OS X in a timely manner, Vista users are *still* awaiting the long-ago promised Service Pack 1. I’m far more comfortable with Apple’s approach to updating and patching their OS, than I would be with Microsoft’s current approach.
All working sweet as a nut after that upgrade…
Anyone know what the “Leopard Graphic” update was about? It came in after 10.5.2.
Nice to have my download folder in the Dock back!
180mb for me on a Macbook plus there’s a quicktime update too!
Downloading now!
I have been sending quite a few error reports to Apple since installing Leopard, but overall I think it has been fantastic and this update is making it even better.
Love my macbook Air, by the way.
Tell me this, has there ever, ever been an update to OSX, any version, that had so much that needed so much to fix it after its initial launch.
The answer is no.
Thought so.
My Harry “Snapper” Organ is snappier!
Remember the Graphics Update, too!
I am finding increased stability! In fact snappier stability all around!
And MOST of my little add-ons work. Most – but I shall wait – for the DEV Dudes and Dudettes to catch up…
Ahhhhhhh – life in the early adopter lane….
BTW man o man – quitcherbitchennonesaysyouhavetoinstallthelatestandgreatesttheseconditcomesout!
or
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
Please punctuate properly – by that time – 10.5.3 will be oout (Canadian for out).
Now don’t get all pouty on me – I am just having fun at your expense.
Oh, Snap!
My clapper is snappier, my crapper is crap-happier, my humor is slap-happiest, and what’s more, I feel the love of Mac-aholics everywhere!!
I swear.
@MizuInOz
Huh?
Strange Apple hasn’t yet improved startup time.
One thing I miss about 10.4 Tiger was the fast startup times. My Core 2 Duo iMac used to boot up in 20 seconds.
Now it takes 43 seconds to boot up. Why????
I perform the same maintenance on it as I did with tiger, I disable all junk programs to open upon startup.