Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.5 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.
• Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
• Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
• Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
• Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
• Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
• Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
• Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
• Improves Speech Dictionary.
• Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
• Includes extensive graphics enhancements.
Address Book
• Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.
• Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.
Disk Utility and Directory Utility
• Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.
• Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.
iCal
• Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.
• Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.
• Resolves an issue in which the “Refresh All” option may be dimmed (“grayed out”) in the contextual menu for certain calendars.
• Fixes issues with read-only calendars.
• Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.
• Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.
Mail
• Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.
• Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.
• Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
• Addresses an issue with the “Organized by Thread” view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.
• Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.
• Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.
• Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.
MobileMe
• Improves overall sync reliability.
• Improves Back to My Mac reliability.
Time Machine
• Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
• Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.
• Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.
• Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).
Mac OS X 10.5.5 is available via Software Update and also via standalone installers found on Apple’s Software Updates Website here.
My reboot was snappier…
Address book now can print both company name and person name – a historical deficiency now! Wonder what other hidden goodies abound.
I like peas!
Still Indexing……….
Snappy is as snappy does.
That’s nice. Following the link takes me to an Apple page with the link to DL 10.5.5. Click on it & I get to the 10.5.4 DL page!!
Apple seem to be getting many things somewhat askew these days.
Too much iPhone!
no sound (internal speakers) after update.
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Time Machine is now taking forever “Preparing Backup…” – what gives?
“Famous Grouse”
My glass is half full. Yours is an empty, ripped paper cup someone with hepatitis spit in before setting your car on fire.
This is the funnest update ever!
Did my usually system update routine… Start up from my external Emergency/Maintenance Startup Drive. Run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk routine. Restart from normal startup drive. Run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk Permissions routine. Run Software Update to install the system update. After restart, run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk Permissions routine, one more time.
As usual, no problems so far…
And I did my usual routine (in silk stockings of course)… turn around three times chanting “it just works, it just works, it just works” followed by clicking the mouse once while exhaling… I made sure I had buried the toad earlier in the evening in the back yard… lucky for us it’s a full moon!
As usual no problems so far…
doing my usual routine…. clicking on download now and going to bed.
> Time Machine is now taking forever “Preparing Backup…” – what gives?
It did take a while the first time after the update. Must be making some changes to the archive. Subsequent backup only took a few seconds.
Later I will try with the other machines, but at least this iMac 2.4GHz didn’t like the update.
Maybe it‘s that I am using fake Chinese DSL, but I get this error message: “The Installer could not validate the contents of the ‘MacOSXUpd10.5.5Patch’ package”.
@YoYo,
I had a similar problem with my girlfriends PowerBook the other month… turns out the date in OS X had been reset to 1980 or something, so all the certificates etc. were out of sync.
Reset the date to the correct year, and all was good.
It didn’t do anything for my crappy WiFi.
Windows Vista and XP are much crappier!