Apple seeds Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 to developers; OS X Lion 10.7.1 likely imminent

“Following the successful public release of OS X 10.7 Lion to the general public last week, Apple has seeded OS X 10.7.2 to developers,” Dave reports for AppleBitch.

“The seed of 10.7.2 was made available alongside the developer release of iCloud Beta 5 for Lion which is also currently undergoing developer testing. Given that 10.7.2 is now with developers, it is likely that Apple is near finalizing the public release of 10.7.1, the initial bug fix patch for the first version of Lion.”

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Dave reports, “10.7.1 has likely been in the works for a while now and is likely nearing a public release.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: With history as our guide, it is very likely that the release of 10.7.1 is imminent:

• Mac OS X Lion 10.7 was released on July 20, 2011.
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 was released on August 28, 2009. 10.6.1 was released on September 10, 2009.
• Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 was released on October 26, 2007. 10.5.1 was released on November 15, 2007.
• Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 was released on April 29, 2005. 10.4.1 was released on May 16, 2005.
• Mac OS X Panther 10.4 was release on October 24, 2003. 10.4.1 was released on November 10, 2003.
• Mac OS X jaguar 10.2 was released on August 24, 2002. 10.2.1 was released on September 18, 2002.
• Mac OS X Puma 10.1 was released on September 25, 2001. 10.1.1 was released on November 12, 2001.
• Mac OS X Cheetah 10.0 was released on March 24, 2001. 10.0.1 was released on April 14, 2001.
• Mac OS X Public Beta, the predecessor to Mac OS X 10.0, was released on September 13, 2000.

33 Comments

        1. maybe you should READ about the issues?…..

          WiFi works…. BUT it times out.
          and the people that are having the problem…. are the NEW iMac and MBP…. the ones with 3 antennaes.
          you have problems connecting at a STABLE 450 802.11N.
          you CAN turn off security settings and connect at a stable G speed…
          But this is not a new Lion problem. it was first introduced in 10.6.7 and Apple still hasn’t been able to correct it.
          and we know it’s Apple’s drivers. the Bootcamp windblows drivers… work at a stable 450 N speed. it’s just while in OS X we have stability problems.

        2. Sorry, I seem to remember having pervasive Wifi and Ethernet connection issues several months after Snow Leopard came out (you can read about them online if you don’t believe me). This kind of thing happens all the time with Apple.

      1. because it’s a very very bad feature, it should save into a scratch file. I have a catalog and i when i change some little things to generate a different PDF version for a client , AutoSave save the change to my catalog, so i lose my original… I would decide when i want to save my document, i’m not totaly silly … I spent a lot of time ($) to launch ‘revert to save’ to restore my document as i open it in Pages before ‘autosave’ …

        1. You might read up on how it functions.
          Documents get “Locked” so that new changes do not get added. It
          would ask you, in your example, if you wanted to save to a new document instead. It would not just overwrite the document.

          Ya have a little silly. That’s a good thing. 😉

  1. Seems like they had 10.7.1 cooked and ready to release from the beginning, just to hook people who won’t upgrade until there’s at least one stability update. I’m not biting. I’ll consider it at 10.7.2, but I most likely will not upgrade until 10.7.3 or 10.7.4.

    1. I don’t know. I bit and installed it last Thursday. I’d say it’s 99% good so far. The only thing I would like fixed is the terrible loss of the gestures for Safari. I want to be able to use the two-finger swipe left and right to replace the back and forward buttons. It worked beautifully in Snow Leopard. Now you can do a really brutal swipe to the right and you might get back to the previous page but it resists mightily. It was so easy before!

      1. Well, in my case, upgrading to Lion means dealing with at least two “everyday” pieces of software that will or may stop working, in return for a bunch of features, none of which I need. Unless my hand is forced by the introduction of something Lion-only that I’ve just gotta have (iCloud?), I will probably upgrade at the end of the year at the earliest, when switching over my financial software will be the least painful.

        ——RM

  2. Upgraded on Day 2 and all is well. Getting lots of practice with new gestures and Mission Control. NO major issues at all. Glad I did it and just in case there was a BIG issue, I have Snow Leopard, all files, and apps backed up.

      1. Don’t worry, he knows not of what he speaks.

        WiFi problems, and NOT that WiFi does not work… it works. but sometimes gets SLOW…

        and from what i have read, there IS NO MBA WiFi issue….
        the guy saw DMac mention WiFi issues, and he responded by coming up with his doomsday scenario with a MBA having no WiFi.

        Guy has no clue about the issue, and tossing out FUD.

        Move along, there is no dead WiFi on MBA’s….
        as i pointed out above, it’s apple’s drivers having problems. it don’t break WiFi, it just makes WiFi speeds act like you are on a roller coaster.
        one minute… blazing away at 450, the next the page times out. hit refresh and it’s there.
        it’s the security settings with 802.11N that Apple has screwed up with 3 antennae systems. you can change the settings to use all 3 antennae with “G” speeds… and all is well.

        Read the discussions…

    1. It’s usually not the whole “app” that goes full screen, it’s the app’s window. For example, one or more Safari windows can be in full screen app mode while (at the same time) one or more Safari windows are “normal.”

      If you quit an app with its window (or windows) in Full Screen App mode, it should reopen that way when you launch the app (using the “Resume” feature).

      There is no general system-level setting to open apps in full screen app mode, by default. However, it is possible for individual apps to have such as setting, in its preferences. For example, I noticed that DVD Player has such as setting.

  3. My 24 inch iMac froze up today while the screensaver was running. I had parallels, mail, and my calendar up. Hopefully, when these updates come out they’ll fix this.

  4. Yeah, Apple went to far by incorporating so much iOS Ui features in Lion. They should instead have introduced a themes option like Windows, to allow, for example, a Snow Leopard theme and Lion theme, so you can switch between them easily.

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