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Mac OS X 10.6.1 build 10B504 seeded to developers

by Steven Sande Sep 9th 2009 at 11:30AM

The InterWebs were buzzing last evening with word that Build 10B504 of Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard had been seeded to developers. This build appeared about a week after the initial 10.6.1 seed, which was allegedly seeded to developers only three or four days after 10.6 hit the streets.

What's interesting about this build is that it addresses only two documented issues -- the occasional crashing of Desktop Services in Finder, and excessive "dyld shared cache" messages in the Console.

Many issues that Mac users have experienced since installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard can be attributed to third-party software incompatibilities, but there is common agreement that there are other bugs that need to be addressed in the OS.

So, when will the new Snow Leopard cub actually hit our Macs? Mac OS X 10.5.1 was released 21 days after Leopard's first leap, and Mac OS X 10.4.1 squeaked out the doors at Cupertino a mere 17 days after Tiger first growled. It wouldn't be surprising, then, to see the first "dot-release" of Snow Leopard showing up in Software Update in the next week.

Whenever it happens, we'll be sure to let you know.

[via MacRumors]

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bioadam

I hope the update fixes MobileMe galleries in iWeb. Friends and family now go pages with framed error messages.

September 09 2009 at 3:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jordi

I hope they disable the "press the play key to launch iTunes" feature. It is really annoying... iTunes is not the only software using these keys.

September 09 2009 at 12:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Bill Jobs

You guys missed the big one: they also updated Flash to the latest version in this update. Because 10.6.0 still have a version of Flash with security issues.

September 09 2009 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Hobbes

That one was addressed already in the previous seed 10B503.

September 09 2009 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RP

All I care about is getting an option to turn off that damn F8 = open iTunes 'feature'

September 09 2009 at 12:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kaslings

I've been an Apple user since 1980. I own apple stock. I just had to get that out of the way, so everyone doesn't think I'm some hater....


but if any other company did some big hoopla about how their new product is better and refined, then released a bug patch 2 weeks later, there would be a lot of mocking and complaining.

September 09 2009 at 11:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tim

I don't own any Macs or Apple stock, and I think you're being a bit unfair - all new software has bugs, and if they're able to turn around the patches this quickly then that's good news as far as I'm concerned. It's quite obvious (from the general response to Snow Leopard) that's there nothing *that* seriously wrong with it, just the usual niggles that they're dealing with in a timely fashion, that seems fair enough to me.

As a long term Microsoft user I can tell you that when they do some big hoopla about how their new OS is better and refined, major problems are found within days of release, and patches for those problems take several weeks if not months. Is that better?

September 09 2009 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Izzy

EVERY windoze release has had patches within days of release. There is just no way to account for all the variables in beta (for any OS). Heck Linux has patches out the same day sometimes, but that is in perpetual beta.

September 09 2009 at 12:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael

I've seen the mail problem that they addressed.

September 09 2009 at 11:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Johnny

how'bout fixing the sh!++y front row playback of DVDs and iTunes purchased movies on my Mac Mini

September 09 2009 at 11:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Stunbunny

Thanks for finding that out for me before I upgraded. I'm waiting on the 10.6.X patch that makes FrontRow work on my Mini as well as it does in 10.5. In the meantime, I'm sticking with Leopard the First. At least I only paid $30 for the new OS.

September 09 2009 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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