Apple expands areas of focus in Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8’s latest developer seed

“While the first two beta releases of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard update signaled a focus on underlying service technologies, a third pre-release made available to developers overnight expands upon those areas to include several forward-facing apps and additional frameworks,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.

“The company is now reportedly requesting feedback on a number of alternative components, amongst them are AddressBook, AppKit, ColorSync, the CoreAUC HD video decoder, FileSync, Image IO, Mail, mass storage devices, MobileMe preferences, Safari, Security and the Mac OS X kernel,” Lane reports.

“Meanwhile, nearly a dozen new fixes have been baked into build 9L16, bringing the total number of code corrections expected as part of Mac OS X 10.5.8 Update to approximately 40,” Lane reports.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]