“Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections,” AppleInsider reports.
“The Mac maker on Thursday informed its vast developer community of the availability of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build 9D10, a pre-release copy of the software update featuring a core focus list spanning some two dozen core components,” AppleInsider reports.
More in the full article here.
I’m sure it will be very snappy!
I’m guessing they’re gonna rename Leopard to ‘OS X Snappy’
seems rather quick after the last 10.5.2 update.
we might run out of numbers again and go to 10.5.11 before 10.6 comes out.
They need to improve it. Start of the week: one desktop and one server upgraded to Leopard provoking networking and applications (CS3) problems. Today: re-installed Tiger on both machines.
My impression is that Leopard is fine for the iMac home user brigade but for us power users, it doesn’t cut the mustard.
It fixed everything wrong with my Mac Pro 2008
… it really is snappier-er
Take precautions. Those seeds are mildly poisonous.
Apple,
I’m glad to see Dashboard on the list. PLEASE do something with it! It seems to be completely untouched in Leopard (vs. Tiger). Dashboard has the potential to be the biggest productivity booster ever implemented on OS X (yes, in my opinion, more so than Expose or Spaces). But, it still doesn’t load widgets upon boot up (or even waking from sleep) – you still have to wait several seconds the first time you launch it, even if that is hours after you booted up.
Also, Dashboard Spaces! Hello?!?!? The concept is staring you right in the face.
I would love to set up 6 Dashboard Spaces – one for work, one for play, and one for each of the 4 seasons.
@ Dirty Pierre le Punk:
With the exception of one botched 10.5.2 upgrade (which was solved by going to an earlier Time Machine backup and re-upgrading) and not being able to print to my copiers that were manufactured in the early Jurassic period, Leopard has worked extremely well in my office. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I’ve been very happy with it. Also, my boss telecommutes, and the screen-sharing in Leopard has been great for us – better than other 3rd party solutions we’ve tried. Not just for the iMac home user brigade…
My guess is that Leopard really wasn’t ready for primetime. 10.5.1 was really 10.5.0 and 10.5.2 was really a dot one and a half update. 10.5.3 is more likely what they would have liked 10.5.2 to have been.
The .3 update has always brought a few new features to the OS. I hope the same is true with Leopard and even with the .4 update!
I’m tired of watching Mail quit on a regular basis. I don’t know what is causing it, but it happens on more than one Mac here. (FCP is also giving me problems on another Mac.) I hope 10.5.3 will address all.
Hope this will fix my broke iCal!!!!!!!!
Leopard and Adobe CS3 don’t play well together at all.
10.5.2 fixed one Photoshop problem, but now I’ve got others.
Takes FOREVER to quit CS3 apps, to the point where I have to force quit them.
I assume this is more a problem (bugs) with Adobe and not Leopard.
Anyone else have problems with CS3? Solutions?
‘Bout f-ing time. 10.5.2 really screwed my pooch. Was considering calling the ASPCA.
MDN magic word: second. As in I’m sure many people second my opinion
When do we get the update?
Genius
I really hope this fixes bonjour on my airport network.
I haven’t been able to print wirelessly since I got leopard. Never EVER had problems with wireless printing until 10.5 rolled into my life.
Still running 10.4.11 as my day-to-day OS, but have 10.5.2 on an external that I boot up every couple of weeks when the updates come out.
I haven’t yet felt that Leopard is must.
@eWorldian
Yeah… I also hate that when I close Acrobat I alway get a dialogue box that states the the application unexpectedly quit. No it didn’t! I quit the damn app!!!
Every update has made my Mac snappier. In fact, my Mac is now so damn snappy, it finishes tasks before I request them! In fact, I loaded this page to find that my Mac had already entered this comment for me! Now that’s f’in snappy!
——RM
@ dirty pierre: learn how to use a Mac
Running Leopard on both a PowerMac G4 DP 1.0 GB MDD and a MacBook Core Duo 2.0 GB since it came out, and the only issues were with networking in the beginning. After the first networking update, those issues disappeared and all has been well since.
Mail has never crashed on either machine. Screen sharing and file sharing both work great!
@ Genius – some “genius” you are if you have to ask that question.
@ cubert – I also wish the dashboard widgets would load faster (perhaps in the background when the Mac is otherwise idle). But don’t you think that loads of widgets running as you suggest (in spaces) would cause the cpu to bog down? It seems to me that many of my widgets –even the simple world clocks– use way too much cpu time, even when they are supposed to be “inactive”.
The 10.5.2 update and the airport update fixed all my whines.
Keep tweaking away Apple, Leopard is great and keeps getting better.
@Some Dude,
“Bout f-ing time. 10.5.2 really screwed my pooch.”
Holy crap!!! That’s one horny install disc!
They say that the large majority of Leopard problems have to do with the method used to install it.
Straight Upgrade: BAD
Archive & Install: Good
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080109132202261&query=leopard+upgrade
BEST: Erase & Install
Install Leopard using the Erase & (clean) Install method.
Then let the migration Assistant do it’s thing.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071129085054744&query=leopard+upgrade
I waited until 10.5.1 before installing Leopard. but first installed it onto an external drive to get used to it and also to do fresh installations of a lot of different applications so I’d get a real fresh start once I took the plunge.
I must say, I’ve had very few problems. The ones I did have were mainly minor incompatibilities.
@drmacnut,
I agree that under its current implementation, Dashboard Spaces would grind your CPU to a halt. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! In a Garbage Collected environment, processes should be automatically released when not used, hence freeing up memory and CPU cycles. Currently, the widgets continue to run continuously in the background (without updating themselves somehow), which they should not (biggest example – HulaGirl). Apple could have the most recently active widgets (in my spaces concept) refresh every 60 seconds or so and even stagger their refreshing. The widgets in the “not most recently used” spaces could refresh when Dashboard is activated (and switching to that space is possible).
Also, are you the guitar-playing Dr. Mac Nut?