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.]
Does it get rid of the nine million terabytes of useless code (no, not PowerPC) that Apple sloppily left in Leopard and that accounts for the shrinkage of Snow Leopard?
SmartScroll has been fixed. Can’t live without it.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21186
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After this update Safari seems to be crashing randomly. Anyone else seeing this type of behavior?
Whoa… The updater wouldn’t work, because it says that I need 4.6 GB of free data to download and install it, and I only have 2.4 GB! 4.6 GB need to be available for a 630.5 MB update? How strange…
Well that’s strange. At GMT 0754 on 1 July, Software Update on my Intel core 2 Duo reports that my 10.53 is “up to date”.
To iDon’t:
You have already been released, so now go away and play with you Vista machine.
I know no one will believe this, but I swear my Mac and Safari does feel like its much more snappier. Now stop snickering, I’m telling the truth. My Mac is much snappier and Safari too after I installed the 500 plus update. So this update is a must for Leopard users. You Mac will be much more snappier than before.
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@gypsie
currently there is a fix for photoshop 7. Its called CS3 you can install it quite as easily as 7 and it actually has an updated interface too. Pretty neat stuff.
Anyone know if this Leopard update fixes the Remote Desktop flaw exploited by that trojan? I’ve read the details of the update and the flaws it fixes, but I haven’t seen the Remote Desktop issue addressed specifically.
I have an overheating problem now. I may have been blipped by a lightning strike. Is anyone experiencing overheating of their PPC G5 Power Mac? I have a dual 1.8 Gig with the 4 slot memory. I have my Tiger install running right now to test my theory. Anybody else?
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The Apple app store has been such a huge success because of how they treat their developers. They have such a large selection off apps and that entices users to download random apps and for developers to continue to create apps for the iphone. As an iphone developer I cannot imagine developing for any other phone at this point. This money just isnt anywhere else at this time.