Happy Halloween! Apple today released Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update which delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
– AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
– AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
– Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
– disc recording when creating and burning media
– .Mac sync services
– Spotlight indexing and searching
– Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
– Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
– Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
– compatibility with third party applications and devices
– previous standalone security updates
Mac OS X 10.4.3 is available via Software Update (97MB) and also as a standalone installer. Two versions of the installer (Delta and Combo) are available from Apple Downloads as standalone updates. After you download an update, you can use it to update your computer without being connected to the Internet:
• The Delta Update installer (97MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4.2 to 10.4.3.
• The Combo Update installer (109MB) updates Mac OS X 10.4, 10.4.1, or 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 .
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301984
WooHoo!!!!
About time! I hope it works right!
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Yeehaa!
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Start your downloaders and let’s hope it cures some of Tiger’s twitchy behaviour.
MW=get – as in “Get right now!!”
=:~)
I feel pleasant
Hopefully this will clear up all the “bugs” and will clear up the bottlenecks in the current system. Will be waiting a few days watching Macfixit. Then, time to upgrade to Tiger for all us Panther lovers…
MW: too
sllooooooow DL…servers overloaded?? been waiting for this!! maybe i’ll be #1 on hitup.org ‘s “10.4.3” workstation list….
I don’t see anything about the defective single 1.8 G5 Powermacs in their update list.
When I ran the software updater it was only a 56.8 MB download. I hope I get all of it, since users are talking about a 97 MB download.
My combo download of the standard OS (for other computers I administer) also didn’t fully download. Meanwhile, I am now using SU to download the OS 10.4.3 Server update – which is 121 MB.
MW: blood
Hmm…
Hollow’s Eve…Hopefully those demons lurking around in 10.4.2 will be gone by Tuesday!
I downloaded directly from Software Update and the download was 56.8MB as well. I’ve already installed it and restarted my compter, everything’s fine.
Includes 40% more cowbell.
I downloaded and installed it and now my items sitting on my desktop are spaced really far apart and I can’t do anything to put them back close together – I guess i will have to keep less items out there.
Needs more Cowbell
(did you see in the iTunes essentials that they now have a “more cowbell” item) – funny
“Includes 40% more cowbell.”
That doesn’t work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!
I see that the desktop spacing problem is related to a 10pt font view – if you change it to 11 or more they all take up less space then if it is set to 10? Wierd..
I had to reboot 3 times for it to boot sucessfully after the update but now it works fine, haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary, the download was only 56Mb though (from 10.4.2)
“(did you see in the iTunes essentials that they now have a “more cowbell” item) – funny”
Very cool. But they should throw this onto the page.
Noticed the comments about having problems rebooting, but I think maybe people aren’t waiting long enough after restart. My boot-up after restart took over 3 minutes with the fans blowing like h*ll, and I just left it alone, but was tempted to restart manually, thinking it was just taking too long and was hung up. Finally got the “Starting Mac OS X” screen and it, too, took about 3-4 minutes, but all is well now, and running great.
Also note that Spotlight appears to re-index after reboot.
I had just two hours ago run into a problem using Safari as an interface to a web-based tool when, lo and behold, 10.4.3 appears and my problem is fixed. Now that’s spooky!
System-wide RAW support…
You can now view RAW files in Preview.app and RAW files also show up in the Finder slideshow: I guess that RAW support should also work in any other slideshow capable apps (Mail?), or maybe even in iMovie too.
Haven’t tried everything yet.
GREAT system-wide feature.
Woohoo!!! Just instaled it. Does anyone else find everything seems allot snappier?
Yeah for RAW support! It seems 10.4.3 also fixes the .mac keychain syncing problem that was always reported in console…
Great update so far.
Keychain Access searching is no longer case-sensitive after installing this update.
YYYYYYYYYYYYYeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssse!
iChat update fixes
iChat preferences now allow you to display emoticons (such as a smiley face) as text (such as ”
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Resolves an issue in Activity Monitor in which you might see “iChatAgent (Not Responding)” in red text, even though iChat works just fine.
Addresses a “No data has been received for the last 10 seconds” alert that could often appear when participating in a video chat in iChat with someone using AIM on a PC.
.Mac members can enable encrypted chat sessions after installing this update.
Further addresses potential causes of persistent “insufficient bandwidth” alerts.