Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard 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 included:
• General
– Includes recent Apple security updates.
– Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server.
– Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
– Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
– Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.
• AirPort
– Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
– Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.
• iCal
– Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
– Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
– Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
– Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
– Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
– Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
– Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.
• Safari
– Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
– Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.
• Spaces and Exposé
– Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
– Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
– Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard is available via Software Update.
Standalone installers are or will soon be available via Apple Support Downloads.
• The delta update will allow you update from Mac OS X 10.5.3 to 10.5.4
• The combo update will allow you update from Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, or 10.5.3 to 10.5.4
Information about the security content of Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4 here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John F” for the heads up.]
No problems yet on the core 2 imac. The PBG4 12″ booted twice but seems to be running fine.
“is it snappy????”
Does it have No New Features? It could be Snow Job Leopard in disguise.
Why do people keep on using the word “snappy” in reference to OS updates?? Where did that ever come from?
“The Apple pie is always a trim size, just large enough to carry everything you need, but small enough to fit inside the tiniest of ovens. “
Except when it’s a Leopard Pie. Then it’s so bloated and full of rotten leopard meat that it takes a whole year to bake a replacement pie.
The “snappy” thing came from back when OS X 10.0 came out and was pretty slow and Apple released the update 10.1… It was a huge improvement in overall speed and it was often referred to as “snappy” Then whenever a new update came out like 10.1.1, 10.1.2 and so on it seemed some updates would be a step forward and some were a step backwards. It became commonplace to ask on forums if the newest update fixed any sluggish issues and if it made it “snappier”!
So there you have it the history of “snappy” in reference to OS X!
@ EFI Firmware Update 1.3
I don’t have an EFI-based Mac with me at the moment with which to verify this, but I know firmware updates in the past have often required that you run a special app that gets dropped in your Utilities folder before the update actually completes. Have you done that? If not, that might be why it still wants to download the updater.
Finally 10.5.4 fixes “What’s New”
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There’s also a Safari update and a security update for 10.4 added today.
@Journo,
Unfortunately, MDN was not the first. I saw this news on Macrumors first and no one else had it at the same time. Macrumors beat them by 11 minutes!
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FYI, I’m still running Tiger, and there are updates for it today as well.
@ SMacSteve–
Thanks for the background on that! I had no idea this little tradition goes back like 6 or 7 years. Fairly new to Macs, so I know my inexperience shows now…
Ughh…..did the update and upon restart my G5 hung up, which it hasn’t done in FOREVER!!
Now every single app is running like its stuck in quick sand….working thru all of the basic troubleshooting right now…
Anyone else having issues with powerpc machines? I just got an IM from a friend with very similiar issues as mine….safari is taking a looooooooong time to load every page, and every one of my CS3 apps is coated in syrup….
Wow, it feels 2-3 times faster and it talks to me now…
“Buy… iPod”, “buy… iPhone”, “Buy Mobile Me”, but I already own them. I hope this bug is fixed in 10.5.5
= : P
But, but, where’s the server update? OMGWTFBB!!!11!! I want my Xserve to be snappy too!
Unfortunately, I still can’t access sites that require certificates from my Smart Card! WTF!?! The update was supposed to fix this! Is anybody doing this successfully after the update?
Some readers report that the OS X 10.5.4 update makes your computer snappier just by hearing about it. No installation required! Now that’s what I call “snappy!”
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz (1st generation) here — no problems updating so far.
Snappy enough right now.
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“Ughh…..did the update and upon restart my G5 hung up, which it hasn’t done in FOREVER!!”
So Apple didn’t even wait for Snow Job leopard to stop testing on the G5
MB updated just fine. AluPB is hung right now at the Running Installer Script step! Aargh!
My PowerMac G5 updated just fine (right now typing on it).
Sho Shnappee!™
*hic*
I hope it’s snappy, but not crackly and poppy.
@ ‘Snow Job Leopard’
Installed on my G5 Quad with no issues. Don’t be such a conspiracy-theory wielding crybaby… Next tim ask around before you jump to the asinine conclusion that your one machine somehow is representative of every G5 out there.
I’m still waiting for Pussy to be released.
Pussy will be released soon.