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iCal sports a new look in the newest build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Over the last few days Apple has begun seeding a new version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to to developers. The update brings Leopard up to Build 9A283.

The update is currently only available to Select and Premier ADC developers, and has not been released via Software Update as of yet.

The follow changes are present since the WWDC build of Leopard;

• New Parental Controls preference pane allows you to limit access to the
  system and apps, adjust content filters and enforce curfews
• iCal has significant UI changes
• VoiceOver screen reader includes 3D audio cues to indicate the location of
  items on the screen.
• Live Previews in the Print Panel
• Preview now supports basic editing
• Audio via the headphone/lineout jack plays at the normal volume again
• Input Method Frameworks have been updated
• Groups and subgroups in AddressBook can be restored with Time Machine

  Spotlight

• Quick Look supports PDF, HTML, Web Archives, Text, QuickTime
  movies and sound
• Time Machine snapshots are searchable through Spotlight

  iChat

• Spotlight Previews can be streamed in iChat Theater mode
• Replace Background video effect now available

The following issues are still present in the build;

• Upgrades from the WWDC Developer Seed are not supported
• Upgrades from previous releases are not recommended
• When installing on a PPC system with 256MB RAM, only Erase Installs will
  succeed
• Migrating your user during installation sometimes hangs, but the Migration
  Assistant will still allow you to migrate your data
• Ethernet & Airport connections sometimes toggle between active/inactive.
  Rebooting should correct this.
• Some characters are truncated or missing when scrolling in applications
  like Xcode, Mail & Safari
• OpenGL won’t run under Rosetta
• Resizing or panning a WebClip widget removes the editing border, but
  closing and re-opening Dashboard brings it back
• Booting verbosely may result in a panic
• Unable to build a debug kernel
• Application updaters report success when actually failing
• To-Dos cannot be created through iCal’s APIs
• Drop boxes will be world-readable because ACL’s are not overriding posix
  permissions on files
• X11 crashes while idle

  Time Machine

• Any volumes being used as backup destinations should be reformatted
• Restoring may be broken for some users, though backing up still preserves
  all user data

  Mail

• Messages sometimes wrap text at character boundaries instead of word
  boundaries
• Occasional hangs after hitting Cmd-Quote when composing messages
• Occasional Mail & SyncServer crashes when tracking RSS feeds

  QuickTime

• QuickTime movies open at the wrong aspect ratio and appear stretched.
  Use Cmd-1 to resize the movie to the correct size and ratio.
• Flash support inside of QuickTime movie files is disabled by default,
  but can be re-enabled in the QuickTime Preferences/Advanced tab
• “Export to iPod” will export at the new, larger size, but at the wrong
  data rate. Quality of the exported file is poor.