Mac OS X 10.5.6 is available via Software Update

Apple's support page and Software Update appear to be a little bit hammered --- you know what that means: A new OS update!

Mac OS X 10.5.6 has just been released to Software Update. The ~190 MB update (assuming you are already running the latest version of OS X) offers up the following, according to Apple's Support Page:

Various improvements to performance and stability in Mail.app, iCal, Airport and Safari
Graphical improvements
DVD player performance improvements
A new Trackpad panel in System Preferences for portable Macs
Time Machine and MobileMe improvements
Other various fixes.

The whole support page lays out the improvements with more accuracy than we often see from Apple and there are security updates too.

My download has just finished and my dock is bouncing, so I'm off to update my system. Post your results in the comments!

Thanks Tyler and Mike!

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Pastor Steve Bauer

the os update (or maybe the security update) messed up my ability to access SQL databases online.

Does anyone know the email address for giving feedback to Apple about this sort of thing?

December 22 2008 at 12:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew

Ditto to Vaughn's comment above - to upgrade or not to upgrade? I'm on a G5 PPC tower, got the 190MB upgrade in Software Update. I've not really had any problems with 10.5.5, so is there any point me upgrading at all?

December 22 2008 at 5:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Vaughn

So, yeah...I've got an April 2007 Macbook Pro and my update is 377mb...what is the consensus, are we updating or not, I've been hearing bad things.

December 18 2008 at 9:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nestor Makhno

The update is failing to install on My Mac Mini 1.83Gz. Repeatedly getting a message about the certificate. It then causes Software Updater to crash. Any ideas what's up?

December 16 2008 at 8:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Scott

This update wreaked iCal again (as did 10.5.4). iCal is empty and unable to quit. Although as before MobileMe and my iPhone are unaffected (thank goodness). Now I just need to set aside an hour or so to fix it:-(

December 16 2008 at 6:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Guy_Gabriel

How do I remove the Apple installer for the update 10.5.6 which did not work. It is stuck at the configuration installation for hours iMacG5

December 16 2008 at 12:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

south

original 2006 Macbook Core Duo here, installed and running with no issues. come to think of it, I'm not sensing any differences to 10.5.5 at all.

December 15 2008 at 9:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robert

My update is is just 190Mb, however I'm having a problem during the installation phase. The screen with the message installation configuration, my laptop will remain in that part and won't show any progress. Any help!?

December 15 2008 at 8:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dearon

Try this. I'm still downloading, but other people said it worked for them.

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10-5-6_Update

December 18 2008 at 2:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gordraf

This update broke mah Google Notifier. Boo!

Two years of using OS X and this is the first problem I've had with an update. So I'm not that miffed. But... I still "boo" :P

December 15 2008 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nikax

GPGMail plugin tripped me up as well, thanks for the tip. Other than that, no issues with the Software Update install on MBP.

December 15 2008 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply