Mac OS X 10.6.7 available in Software Update

We've been anticipating the release of Mac OS X 10.6.7 for several weeks, and the update has finally dropped.

As you can see from the notes above, one of the major improvements is to Back to My Mac, which has been seemingly neglected for the last several updates. Mac users in Windows-centric offices will be happy with the SMB file transfer fix, and several Mac App Store bugs have been resolved as well.

The update requires a reboot and, when I got it from Software Update, showed a download size of about 312 MB. The standalone downloads are 475 MB (for the 10.6.6 to 10.6.7 delta updater) or 1.12 GB (for the combo updater valid on any 10.6.x Snow Leopard installation).

As always, it's a good idea to make sure your backups are current and you're not in the middle of any mission-critical work before running a system update -- no harm in waiting a day or two while the first round of upgraders shakes out the issues and gotchas.

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We've been anticipating the release of Mac OS X 10.6.7 for several weeks, and the update has finally dropped. As you can see from...

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Neel Shah

Just want to point out there is also a bug with 10.6.7 on macbook airs causing the screen to completely lock up after opening up iTunes. I've definitely noticed this, and the only way to get it to work again is to restart. Various methods to fix it have been the combo update, reinstalling itunes, repairing permissions, to no avail. Only thing that has worked is removing com.apple.itunes.plist in library>preferences and iTunes Library Genius.itdb in the iTunes folder, and restarting. I've sent feedback to Apple, and I'm hoping they can provide a permanent fix. Hopefully TUAW can report on this issue, or possibly find a fix because this was a frustrating issue, and if anyone else was plagued with this issue, hopefully this temporary fix will help. Thanks

March 23 2011 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ooglek

10.6.7 strangely broke font rendering for non-anti-aliased 12pt Courier New (and maybe other sizes) in iTerm2 and Terminal.

http://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=749

March 23 2011 at 5:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

faslane

This worked for my 2010 13" MBP 2.66

Before Update was hell, no files could copy properly, software wouldn't install etc. because I had some weird finder/smb issues going on. Was just about to re-install everything and this came out and worked perfectly. My MBP is back to normal....it's.....WINNING! ;-)

March 23 2011 at 10:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Craig

such a shame the update stops GrowlMail working with Apple Mail
:O(

March 23 2011 at 4:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

carmauchac

I have a Mac G5 and when I do the update it gives an error message that it cannot connect to the update server. Anyone else getting this message?

March 22 2011 at 8:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pwsloss

Update 10.6.7 seems to have fixed the MacBook Pro-to-AppleTV communication problem. Worth it just for that.

March 22 2011 at 5:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iCaci

Hey, TUAW, Aperture 3.1.2 is already in Software Update!

March 22 2011 at 5:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Hansell

Updated last night, for some reason IP address reassigned on Airport Express. In looking into it, it seems that a setting changed from "Use DCHP" to "Manual" - perhaps it happened for another reason (the cat is obsessed with rubbing his face on the Express and unplugging it) but it had not happened until the latest Software Update. Everything else seems okay.

March 22 2011 at 1:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason

Lovely. It disabled WideMail but then came up with a blank message list. The messages are there and I can scroll through them, I just can't see anything in the list.

March 22 2011 at 7:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Raul H.

My wallpaper was changed to default snow leopard aura wallpaper. Other than that everything seems to be fine.

March 22 2011 at 1:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply