Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update which is 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.
What’s new in Mac OS X 10.5.3:
General
• Fixes a font issue that could result in Helvetica Narrow being used in applications instead of Helvetica.
• Addresses an issue with stuttering video and audio playback in certain USB devices.
• Resolves stability issues with Word of the Day, iTunes Artwork, and Slideshow screen savers.
• Fixes an issue in which certain attached hard drives may not show up in the Finder.
• Addresses an issue with .Mac syncing of Dashboard widgets over multiple Macs that use different screen resolutions.
• Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
• Improves the accuracy of the Software Update progress bar indicator.
• Addresses an issue in which Finder may not be available if the computer name is blank in Sharing preferences.
• Improves Active Directory binding and login.
• Eliminates a delay when logging in as an Active Directory user in a .local domain.
• Improves Spotlight searches on a AFP file server volumes.
• Clients can now change their password at the login window when bound to a Mac OS X 10.4 Open Directory server.
• Improves Safari reliability when connecting to the Internet through a Microsoft ISA proxy.
Address Book
• Addresses reliability issues when searching for contacts using built-in search.
• Resolves issues with mapping addresses that contain an ampersand character (&).
AirPort
• Improves 802.1X behavior and reliability.
• Improves reliability when using Time Capsule.
Automator
• Addresses an issue in which some actions may not work with the “Show When Run” option enabled.
• Resolves an issue in which the “New iCal Event” action may not work.
• Resolves an issue that prevents workflows from being saved in the Finder’s contextual menu.
• Fixes reliability issues for Automator scripts that search for files by date.
• Resolves an issue that prevents workflows from being saved in the Finder’s contextual menu.
• Addresses an issue in which Automator workflows as Finder plugins do not work when the workflow begins with the “Get Selected Finder Items” action.
• Fixes an issue in which the “Copy Files” action does not reliably work when added from Automator’s warning dialog.
iCal
• Addresses potential privacy issues by allowing events to be marked as private.
• Resolves an issue in which the inspector does not show capacity and availability info for conference rooms within a building.
• Addresses an issue in which the current day could appear in the left-most column of the weekly view.
• Addresses reliability issues with meeting alarms, invitations and attachments.
• Resolves issues with reliability when restoring from iCal backups.
• Fixes accuracy issues with auto-completion, availability data and location names.
• Resolves an issue in which iCal may send cancellation notices for events in the past after a calendar is deleted.
• Fixes reliability issues with iCal syncing.
iChat
• Addresses reliability issues with screen sharing.
• Resolves an issue in which saved chat transcripts may reported as “still in use” after opening and closing them in iChat.
• Resolves an issue with group chats not being indexed in Spotlight.
• Only the last 250 messages of an active chat are saved. Fixed to save unlimited number of lines.
• Addresses issues with echo cancellation that may occur on portable Macs.
Mail
• Resolves an issue in which Mail may prevent idle sleep when set to automatically check for new messages every minute.
• Addresses stability issues that may be encountered when dragging large attachments into an email message.
• Fixes an issue that could occur if two compose windows are open when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
• Addresses reliability issues when changes are made to a mailbox while offline.
• Resolves wrapping issues that may be found with consecutive spaces in plain text.
• Fixes issues with certain web pages appearing garbled when emailed from Safari.
• Fixes an issue in which the Sent, Drafts, and Outbox mailboxes incorrectly list the “cc” recipients in the “To” column.
• Addresses reliability issues with attachments added to plain text notes.
• Fixes reliability issues with authenticated RSS feeds.
• Resolves an issue in which attaching an alias to an email message may not send the actual file.
Parental Controls
• Addresses reliability issues with application logging and time limits.
• Resolves an issue in which Parental Controls may prevent forced sleep.
• Addresses performance issues with web content filters.
• Fixes an issue with managed accounts in which iChat transcripts may not be created.
• Addresses issues with 4-byte files and whitelist.
Spaces
• Resolves an issue in which switching to a different space and returning back to the original space may reorder the application windows with a different active window.
• Resolves an issue in which activating an application from the Dock switches to a different space, even if there is a window for that application in the current space.
• Fixes an issue in which Command-Tab may incorrectly switch to a new space.
• Addresses reliability issues with Spaces when syncing preferences over .Mac.
Time Machine
• Includes fixes for Time Machine compatibility with Time Capsule.
• Resolves certain issues when backing up a portable Mac that is on battery power.
• Addresses compatibility issues with Aperture 2.
• Addresses reliability issues when performing a full restore from a Time Machine backup.
• Fixes an issue in which certain function keys may be disabled after using Time Machine.
• Fixes a possible alert message that incorrectly states a backup volume does not have enough space.
• Updates Time Machine to reliably restore attachments and messages in Mail.
VoiceOver
• Includes Braille Update 1.0 which enables GW Micro, HandyTech, HIMS, Nippon, and Papenmeier Refreshable Braille displays.
• Addresses an issue with Braille dot 7 and 8 underlining.
• Fixes an issue in which HTML page anchors may be ignored by the VoiceOver cursor.
• Fixes an issue that prevented Hot Spots from being used in text areas.
• Resolves an issue with spell checking in which VoiceOver may only announce the first misspelled word if there are multiple words spelled incorrectly.
Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is available via Software Update and also as standalone installers.
More info and download links:
• Mac OS X 10.5.3 Combo Update – 536 MB
• Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update – 420MB
Booyah! Installing it tonight (by combo updater and not delta). With both Tiger and Panther I ran into minor issues with the later delta updates (like 10.3.7, etc.) that resolved once I reapplied the update via the combo updater.
Just some trouble-shooting advice for all the newbies out there.
Anyone else now seeing screen paint issues in Safari when going to MDN? I was on a web site, jumped over to MDN, and the center part of the screen that MDN uses painted, but the previous web page was still in the background. New bug?
Software Update? That’s pretty bleeding edge, isn’t it?
Where I come from, we put our pants on one leg at a time, and we install our OS from disks. Preferably floppy disks, but those have become hard to find of late.
@ ChrissyOne
Yes I know I can do that but I didn’t want to be an early adopter. I’ve been waiting purposely so that many (if not all) of the early bugs are worked out. Besides Tiger has been running just fine for me. I’ve had no issues with it and I’m genuinely happy with it.
@oh no my shorts-check your email, it may contain the solution for your floppy disks
@jimboVW- Safari? you must be joking. Use a real modern browser-firefox or opera.
@ El bandito
I have zero knowledge of anything technical ( except how to expertly apple an “angry dragon” or “chili dog” ) I bought time capsule two weeks ago. I took out of box, plugged in, iMac set it up and it took all of 5 minutes. Now, maybe you are using an Airport base station, I would suspect same “technical” stuff. So if you are having problems with the 10.5.3 update, could this be a user issue along the lines of say….. you don’t keep your system clean? Or. you download alot of “questionable internet files” from the likes of limewire and their counterparts? If so go to disk utility and run a permissions check, then a repair permissions.
My wife crushed our permissions back a couple years ago, it corrupted about 100,000 files….. and before you say it isn’t possible, that is what the Genius’s said too……. until the permissions check took 25 minutes to complete and 40 minutes to repair. He had every Apple store employee over looking at page down after page down of corrupted permissions. It was amazing. None of them had seen anything like. So if you are going to steal it, learn to deal with it. My wife now knows that if she isn’t paying for it at iTunes she will pay for it with a couple of leg kicks to the hammy.
Snap, crackle and pop! Everyone get it and report any issues, quick! Then I’ll get on [the MW].
I’m not sure if something else fixed this earlier, but Word 2008 functions properly with Exposé now.
5:45 from when I hit restart to a login window not too shabby. Go MBP!
…or iCab.
Anyone having problems with deleted iCal appointments being resurrected? This was a problem before … when I synced iCal to my Motorola RAZR, former appointments would show up in the phone, so I knew iCal had held on to them in some way even though iCal wasn’t showing them. Now iCal is full of old useless info.
About an hour for the full install and restart and subsequent disk permission repair (“group 0 read as group 26 – repaired”).
In the mean time, I worked in the garden.
Beauty!
damn that motorola……… Like I always say, don’t buy until you can buy the best. Congrats on that RAZR….. One of my co-workers was bragging about this new LG phone. I just let him know that you always get what you pay for.
“Guess el Rushbo (Limbaugh) had a little something to do with that. (let the political rants begin).”
I just updated and Rush Limbaugh is snappier!
15 minutes on 15″ 1.67 Powerbook. No problems so far…
I’ll give it around 5 days before I install it, just incase there are bugs with it.
This update is bigger than Windows XP SP3!
Now my MacBook sounds like a jet engine turbine.
“Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is available via Software Update (standalone downloads not currently posted).”
Means no update for Paysatr computers….???
Oh yeah. definitely Snappier!!
My MBPro update’s only 198Mb
Sudden craving for Lutjanus campechanus.
only 198 meg in software update.. hmmm
Following the installation of 10.5.3 on my Dual 2 GHz PPC G5 the “Magic Wand” tool in Photoshop CS3 no longer functions properly. I dread to think what other tools have been disabled by this new version of the Mac OS. This problem has not appeared on my similarly updated 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo machine. Obviously, Photoshop on the G5 is effectively dead in the water, since the Magic Wand is one of my most frequently used tools. Bottom line, if you use Photoshop on a G5 machine, do NOT install this new OS update!
I haven’t downloaded it yet, but I’m hearing form other forums that Logitech Software is screwed> Anybody else seeing this?