About 10 days after first releasing Mac OS X 10.5.4 to developers Apple has released another build. The build which is labelled 9E12 is around 150MB to download.

The latest build contains 12 additional bug fixes including the “hang on shutdown” fix.

Apple has requested that developers with the latest build focus on 21 areas within the operating system, in particular; iLife compatibility, printing, networking, AirPort, Mail, iCal, and iChat.

Mac OS X 10.5.4 is expected to be released prior to the July 11th release of MobileMe.

Seed notes included below.

Known Issues

  • None

Focus Areas

  • AirPort
  • AFP
  • Active Directory/Directory Services
  • CFNetwork
  • CoreFoundation
  • CoreGraphics
  • DirectoryService
  • Expose
  • iCal
  • iChat
  • iLife
  • IPSec
  • Keychain
  • Mail
  • Networking
  • ppp
  • printing
  • ruby
  • samba
  • Security
  • Spaces
  • Spaces pref
  • xnu

Areas of Change

New issues fixed in this seed:

  • https and basic authentication compatibility fix
  • NSURLConnection now times out
  • NavCreatePutFileDialog crash fix
  • DS: dsReleaseContinueData incorrectly returning -14072
  • All windows are now shown in expose
  • iCal version number fix
  • Racoon and IPSec compatibility fixes
  • Hang at shutdown fix
  • Identity preference not remembered if cert is located on a smartcard
  • DoD/SmartCard certificates now presented to DoD web sites
  • Finder and switching spaces fixes
  • Can now assign applications to Spaces by dragging from app list again

Issues fixed in previous seeds:

  • LEAP connection in Airport 802.1x
  • Saving and re-opening of some third-party application files on a remote server
  • No HTTP header sometimes when using persistent connection
  • Decoding support for some cameras
  • Misc iCal fixes