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BREAKING: New iPhone SDK & Firmware released
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)
Andrew A. said 8:10PM on 5-06-2008
Damn it, I thought it was publicly released...
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KeynoteKen said 8:13PM on 5-06-2008
I have no idea what this means but the EAGL API's have been revised... nice! :)
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Bob said 8:14PM on 5-06-2008
Hmmm... Only updated support and its 1.08GB? Seems fishy to me.
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dagamer34 said 8:18PM on 5-06-2008
Why are the downloads getting smaller instead of staying the same size or bigger?
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Matthew R said 8:35PM on 5-06-2008
Removing a lot of redundant/debug code?
André said 8:30PM on 5-06-2008
They must be removing redundant material.
This is quite normal.
Cycomachead said 8:57PM on 5-06-2008
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.
Justin said 9:03PM on 5-06-2008
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?
Jesus Franco said 8:24PM on 5-06-2008
I thought the same thing, that heading is misleading, the "Breaking" in caps made me think it was.
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Ben K. said 8:49PM on 5-06-2008
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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Cycomachead said 9:40PM on 5-06-2008
There is in fact a new plist editor.
Looks nice!
CajunLuke said 10:27PM on 5-06-2008
It was in beta 4, as well (maybe before that, but I can't confirm).
Ed said 9:02PM on 5-06-2008
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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Cycomachead said 9:44PM on 5-06-2008
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.
appleobsessed said 9:11PM on 5-06-2008
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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Ed said 10:09PM on 5-06-2008
I only looked at beta 1, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't in that.
CajunLuke said 10:26PM on 5-06-2008
Nope, it's not in Beta 4.
AlJaMa said 9:55PM on 5-06-2008
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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brendan09 said 11:42PM on 5-06-2008
so, what are the changes in the actual iPhone firmware that people have found?
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Giancarlo Gomez said 12:15AM on 5-07-2008
Woohoo! DRM music working again!