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)
“Desktop
• Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences”.
?? Everything else fine but for the life of me I can’t find this option. Desktop & Screen Saver preferences seem to be exactly as they were before. Am I missing something? Would like to remove menu bar transparency with certain desktop pictures but can’t see how… Help!
‘why have a search by size’
There are lots of reasons that this can come in hany. If something unknown is hogging hard disk space, for example, this is an easy way to find the culprit(s); media files are tend to be titanic and it’s handy to see what is taking up how much space in that regard if one has a lot of media on their machine (I have thousands of photographs and movies on mine, my iTunes library is full of heft); etc., etc. My Mac is my professional machine (obviously my work requires a lot of media) and I do need to locate things on it quickly; the more options for this, the better!
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knowhowe: ?? Everything else fine but for the life of me I can’t find this option. Desktop & Screen Saver preferences seem to be exactly as they were before. Am I missing something? Would like to remove menu bar transparency with certain desktop pictures but can’t see how… Help!
It’s a new toggle switch at the bottom of the “Desktop” tab (“Translucent Menu Bar”), but only in the panel appearing on the main screen, apparently.
Have you installed the Leopard Graphics Update as well?
I’m not liking in on my G4 Powerbook. Airport signal strength is still about 30% weaker than in Tiger, and it’s running a lot hotter, to the point the fan kicks in, a little above 122º. Now back in Tiger, 108º. What the hell’s going on under the hood to heat it up so dramatically? I’ll have to do some investigations with the activity monitor, like that will do any good.
Another disappointment – I’m not able to get the etc/hosts hack to work in the Terminal. I’m not able to paste anything in to pico. Oh well…maybe 10.5.3 will be better.
Finder:
List View:
TO VIEW BY SIZE – hit “apple” + J and click on the “size” checkbox.
BAM! It’s added to your list view… Problem solved.
Web pages load much faster than before, but it still drops my wifi connection at various times. Grr.
Ok here is my latest .02 on this update.
I was having major problems with font management after the update. I run LinoType Font Explorer (as many creatives do) to wrangle all 7,000+ fonts on my machine. It allows you to deactivate all the fonts you arent using so it doesn’t eat up system cash/memory. It is set to automatically launch on boot up.
I found that after the 10.5.2 update I was gettign the spinning pinwheel of death every time I would try to launch a program. As soon as I deactivated LinoType Font Explorer the programs would launch and work fine (but now 7,000+ fonts were active slowing the machine down considerably)
LinoType just released an update to the software to make it wrk properly with the 10.5.2 update yesterday afternoon, so everythign is runnninf smoothly again.
BUT… Time Machine still sucks (until they give you preferences for scheduling your backups…i.e. not while I am in the middle of working)
Tom V: BUT… Time Machine still sucks (until they give you preferences for scheduling your backups…i.e. not while I am in the middle of working)
If you have very large working directories changing often, you could either switch off automatic backup and start it manually whenever there’s an opportunity for it (now through the menu bar item as well), exclude your working directory from Time Machine backups or you could modify the backup intervalls by fiddling with the plist file according to this hint:
macosxhints.com – 10.5: Set the Time Machine backup interval
Just beware; Be exceedingly careful with modifications like that!
Headline should read:
Mac OS X 10.5 Beta is released for testing
Always, always wait for V3 before seriously considering upgrading.
Did you all notice that they fixed the Stacks issue to now allow folder view (rather than content view) and hierarchical list views? Sheesh, after all the complaining (by myself as well), you’d think there’d be dancing in the streets.
Grrrilla: Did you all notice that they fixed the Stacks issue to now allow folder view (rather than content view) and hierarchical list views? Sheesh, after all the complaining (by myself as well), you’d think there’d be dancing in the streets.
There might be – if they hadn’t screwed it up again (see above).
Everything else fine but for the life of me I can’t find this option. Reply to Ping:
“Desktop & Screen Saver preferences seem to be exactly as they were before. Am I missing something? Would like to remove menu bar transparency with certain desktop pictures but can’t see how… Help!”
It’s a new toggle switch at the bottom of the “Desktop” tab (“Translucent Menu Bar”), but only in the panel appearing on the main screen, apparently.
Have you installed the Leopard Graphics Update as well?
Yes, update installed but I repeat that no such toggle switch appears where you say it should, only the ‘change picture’ and ‘random order’ checkboxes as before.
You will NOT have the toggle switch option if you do NOT have supported hardware.
G4 machine? Unsupported.
Intel machine? Supported.
@knowhowe
I have the same issue concerning Desktop & Screen Saver preferences, i.e no new menu for setting menu bar transparency. As I am on an old G4 PPC, I wonder if this feature is meant only for Intel macs.
Mmmh… I should have read cartoonasaurus’ reply before posting. Thanks for the info.
Rip0ff: I have the same issue concerning Desktop & Screen Saver preferences, i.e no new menu for setting menu bar transparency. As I am on an old G4 PPC, I wonder if this feature is meant only for Intel macs.
No, I’m running Leopard on a PowerMac G5 and I’ve got the switch.
Is the menu bar transparent on your G4 right now?
Nope, it has never been transparent in fact (Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4)…
Seems the issue come from the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card which cannot display a translucent menu bar… So far so good as I would have hated it.
Rip0ff: Seems the issue come from the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro card which cannot display a translucent menu bar… So far so good as I would have hated it.
That could be the case… so Leopard apparently doesn’t want to bother you with an option that wouldn’t work on that system anyway.
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@ Ping
Thats useful! I appreciate the tip.
10.5.2 broke my use of password to wake my MBP from sleep. In other words waking my Mac from sleep using the Password security option, my password no longer functions. Also Caps Lock and Num Lock are lighted at log-in and shows off in the log-in dialog, but shows on in the log-in dialog when the the keys are unlighted.