BREAKING: New iPhone SDK & Firmware released
Posted May 6th 2008 8:04PM by Erica Sadun
Filed under: iPod Family, Developer, iPhone
Word is out: new versions of the iPhone SDK and firmware are available for download. Word about the details are still trickling in from developers. This is Apple's fifth beta release since the iPhone SDK was released in March. There's just under a week left until the end of the Apple Design Awards submission period. No word if iPhone developers who submitted under earlier firmware will be able to re-submit outside the 72 hour period that Apple allots for "re-dos".
Readers report that this is a smaller download (just over 1 GB) and details are trickling in through the comments.
Thank you everyone who sent this in!
Apparently the changes can be found here if you have an online SDK account.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-06-2008 @ 8:10PM
Andrew A. said...
Damn it, I thought it was publicly released...
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5-06-2008 @ 8:13PM
KeynoteKen said...
I have no idea what this means but the EAGL API's have been revised... nice! :)
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5-06-2008 @ 8:14PM
Bob said...
Hmmm... Only updated support and its 1.08GB? Seems fishy to me.
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5-06-2008 @ 8:18PM
dagamer34 said...
Why are the downloads getting smaller instead of staying the same size or bigger?
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5-06-2008 @ 8:35PM
Matthew R said...
Removing a lot of redundant/debug code?
5-06-2008 @ 8:30PM
André said...
They must be removing redundant material.
This is quite normal.
5-06-2008 @ 8:57PM
Cycomachead said...
could be general compression and the above.
But in any case it's a good thing! Dev downloads are evil.
Ben K: Hmm gotta check sounds fun.
5-06-2008 @ 9:03PM
Justin said...
my guess would be that they're removing code that is no longer needed or code that has been taken over by something else.. or was i being redundant?
5-06-2008 @ 8:24PM
Jesus Franco said...
I thought the same thing, that heading is misleading, the "Breaking" in caps made me think it was.
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5-06-2008 @ 8:49PM
Ben K. said...
Is it just me, or did Apple completely change up the Property List Editor in this release? Somebody open a PLIST and tell me if you're seeing it, too. :)
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5-06-2008 @ 9:40PM
Cycomachead said...
There is in fact a new plist editor.
Looks nice!
5-06-2008 @ 10:27PM
CajunLuke said...
It was in beta 4, as well (maybe before that, but I can't confirm).
5-06-2008 @ 9:02PM
Ed said...
I believe the change in size is due to the fact that they've removed the documentation from the download. At least that's the impression I get from the release notes. It suggests you get the index included with the download and can choose to download the rest of the documentation from within Xcode.
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5-06-2008 @ 9:44PM
Cycomachead said...
That's possible, but the original SDK (and Rev 2 I think) were 2.1GB and 4 was 1.23 and 3 was between 1.2 and 1.5. Documentation is usually around a gig so I'm not sure what's going on. Also my current folder is 408mb after the install.
5-06-2008 @ 9:11PM
appleobsessed said...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but was an option for a "Cocoa Touch OpenGL Application" available as a project template in Xcode in the previous beat of the SDK? Anyway, it is in beta 5 (the one released today).
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5-06-2008 @ 10:09PM
Ed said...
I only looked at beta 1, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in that.
5-06-2008 @ 10:26PM
CajunLuke said...
Nope, it's not in Beta 4.
5-06-2008 @ 9:55PM
AlJaMa said...
I will have a downgrading guide up in a few hours for the new Beta Software at Command-interactive.com. It will be called downgrading from 2.0 beta 5.. not the original 2.0 downgrading.
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5-06-2008 @ 11:42PM
brendan09 said...
so, what are the changes in the actual iPhone firmware that people have found?
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5-07-2008 @ 12:15AM
Giancarlo Gomez said...
Woohoo! DRM music working again!