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)
There seems to be problems using Linotype FontExplorer X with Mac OS X 10.5.2. There are discussions in the Apple forums about it. Once I quit FontExplorer, I had no problems loading this page in Safari.
But Rehab-no, no, no!
Kit-N: Try Leopard and you’ll soon realize that your Tiger days were wonderful and yet unfulfilled. At times, someone’s stripes are of a different color.
My internet provider (Pipex UK) chose the worst time to stop working properly and give download speeds maxing out at 10kB/s
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And no Aperture support for the D300 and DX3. And within 5 minutes of me posting that on the Apple forums, my post was deleted.
I got 6 email alerts of responses. But on clicking that link my post was gone with “Error: you do not have permission to view the requested forum or category”.
Apple has become pathetic. My post was not derogatory at all. All I posted was I bought Lightroom over the weekend in order to work using my D300. DELETED.
Big deal. Now you can view a D300 NEF file in the Finder or Preview. BUT PEOPLE STILL CAN’T GET WORKD DONE WITH OUR COMMITMENT TO APERTURE.
Apple. I’m SO glad I bought Lightroom over the weekend. Adobe deserves the money. Apple doesn’t AT ALL.
Apple? The NEW Microsoft.
Damn, mozart11. That sucks. But Apple, the new MS?
Ive done the update to my macbook
Does not seem any snappier to me. In fact I dont see much of any change. And by the way, I have been using 10.5 since release with very few problems. I will say that 10.4 was more stable, but 10.5 isnt bad and 10.4 had been around for a while.
mozart11: You are absolutely right.
Action like that IS inexcusable.
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I have a direct line to Adobe but of course I couldn’t explain your case. Apple Engineers are going to have to the same problem.
Stacks are great now; thanks Apple for the “List” view and option to use the folder icon. It was the first thing I changed after the update.
I noticed that the new Time Machine icon in the menu spins when backup is taking place. Also, the desktop icon for a network drive looks different; it has three stick persons holding hands. I think I like the old one better (even though I don’t actually remember what it looked like). No big surprises, which I suppose is a good thing for an incremental OS update.
“Its not unusual to be loved by anyone
Its not unusual to have fun with anyone
But when I see you hanging about with anyone
Its not unusual to see me cry,
Oh I wanna die
Its not unusual to go out at any time
But when I see you out and about its such a crime
If you should ever want to be loved by anyone,
Its not unusual it happens every day no matter what you say
You find it happens all the time
Love will never do what you want it to
Why cant this crazy love be mine
Its not unusual, to be mad with anyone
Its not unusual, to be sad with anyone
But if I ever find that youve changed at anytime
Its not unusual to find out that Im in love with you
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh”
– Tom Jones
10.5.2 has has mind entire adobe creative suite non responsive!! anyone else?
My spinning beachball is snappier! And my Dock has a heirarchical view again!
On the other hand, Safari crashed twice while trying to access Care2.com. I hope I don’t have to go to Firefox–or, if that doesn’t work, Camino. Safari 3.1, anyone?
Tom Jones had his chest hair insured with Lloyd’s of London.
wow thats a crap load of updates… Jake likes a lot!!!
@MizuInOz –
That that is, is. That that is not, is not that that is.
Okay, where’s my 10.5.3?
I have a dozen or more processes taking CPU time. This is more than previously (10.5.1) but not hugely.
Oh. Wait. Now there are fewer.
Sometimes Activity Monitor is a God-send, sometimes it just adds to the confusion. I have half-again as much Active memory now, as I had with 10.5.1 – and finally have a tiny slice of Inactive Memory showing. Disk activity has settled down.
Yeah … Safari hasn’t changed.
Dave
‘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.’
True enough, but then again, there’s never been a version of OS X as advanced and full featured as Leopard. After installing the update things feel just as snappy as they did in 10.4.10! I’m a happy camper.
James-
Make that a SNAPPY camper!….
I was interested to notice that a time machine icon popped up on my menu bar next to the wi-fi icon and sync. That’s new.
I always liked the transparent menu bar, but under display I clicked the “make transparent” box and almost decided to go with it. It’s a cleaner, less cluttered look. In the end I decided I like the transparent.
the less transparent drop down windows are nice. I ne’er had a problem before, but it is better now.
Otherwise I notice no differences. But that’s good. Oh, to change your Documents and Downloads stacks do a contextual click and play there. Is the list view new? Seems like it. Personally I really enjoy the stacks and the fan, but if you change it from a stack to a folder you can hover files over the folder and it’ll automatically open them.
What would I really like? I have wished for years and years for even subtly moving desktops. Imagine a lake scene where the clouds slowly move and every once in a while a flock of bird fly by or a bee. The grass moving sometimes when there’s a gentle breeze… Wouldn’t that be nice? You could even subscribe to different location’s superHD streams… I would like this very much.
Even more so, I WANT TO-DO’s IN iPHONE!! Please somebody with magic hands snap your fingers and make this happen.
Ampar
No kidding.
I’ve been shooting in NEF & JPG because of this no non-support by Apple.. I am an Aperture only user. Was. I usually just shoot in NEF. But without Apple Aperture D300 NEF support I CHANGE MY SHOOTING to stay with Aperture. I kept telling myself today will be an update. Today. Today NOTHING FROM APPLE.
And Apple had over a year to prepare for the D300/DX3 files.
Where’s our AppleTV update. Where is Time Machine support for USB drives connected to the Airport n routers?
No. Apple decided to remove it in order to FORCE us who committed to the Extreme n router when first released.
I guess with all this “who cares about you users” attitude from Apple, it truly is making PC switchers feel right at home. After enduring the “f*ck you” attitude of Microsoft.
Apple’s new line? “How different do you think we are from Micrsoft?” NO DIFFERENT.
Heres how I think it will play out for the Aperture users. A PAID UPDATE OF APERTURE FOR D300/D3X NEF SUPPORT.
Shogun
That “active’ (for lack of a better word) desktop is available. I forgot where I saw it, but it had some ocean shots and a few others. Matter of a fact, I had the demo for awhile.
mozart11
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306835