Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
What’s included:
• General
– Includes recent Apple security updates.
– Resolves an issue with saving and reopening Adobe Creative Suite 3 files on a remote server.
– Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
– Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
– Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.
• AirPort
– Addresses AirPort reliability issues with 5GHz networks.
– Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.
• iCal
– Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
– Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
– Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
– Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
– Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
– Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
– Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.
• Safari
– Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
– Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.
• Spaces and Exposé
– Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
– Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
– Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.
Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard is available via Software Update.
Standalone installers are or will soon be available via Apple Support Downloads.
• The delta update will allow you update from Mac OS X 10.5.3 to 10.5.4
• The combo update will allow you update from Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, or 10.5.3 to 10.5.4
Information about the security content of Security Update 2008-004 and Mac OS X 10.5.4 here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John F” for the heads up.]
Just downloaded and installed.
No issues thus far. Smooth.
And I just updated the machines at work!!!! more work aaaarrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!
Ok, I’ll live
is it snappy????
can someone say mobile me hidden updates?
mobile me hidden updates.
“I’ve got the snappy feeling..
oh that snappy feeling…”
Once again, MDN beats everyone to the news.
MacDailyNews. Where “Where Mac News Comes First” isn’t just a catchy slogan.
By the way, a MacBook and an iMac updated, so far so snappy.
Wrong, MacRumors posted it about 15 Min Before MDN did !
I’m scared of updating big updates like this, as they can go wrong.
I always wait a few days, to see if it goes wrong, for some people.
Working Great.!@@!
@JAYGEE
> I’m scared of updating big updates like this, as they can go wrong. I always wait a few days, to see if it goes wrong, for some people.
The updates can tell when you do this and they don’t like it.
Sometimes they’ll work just fine for everyone else because they’re trying to lull you into a false sense of security. Then, once they’ve got you trusting that everything is okay, you install them, and BAM! Everything goes to hell.
Oh.. no, wait a minute, that’s Microsoft.
Its snap-tastic!
is your mom’s cooch ya fucking retarded snappy dipshits.
Mmmmm, taste that Apple goodness. You see, when Apple bakes a pie, it’s just right, with sugar on top, delicious pastry, and a proper filling. With Microsoft, you get a weird transparent plastic pastry, which for some reason is not transparent, but actually blurred and clouded. I assume thats to hide the out of date, rotten innards of the pie. The Microsoft pie is also huge, and bursting at the seams. The Apple pie is always a trim size, just large enough to carry everything you need, but small enough to fit inside the tiniest of ovens.
And, that was a good one, Oh no my shorts. I LOLed.
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MDN Magic word: a controversial “free”. Our updates are free, Microsoft’s Service Packs are sometimes a little bit more? Debate please? Any Microsoft fanboys ready to rally against me and defend Bill and Ballmer? Please, take a shot. I’m sure I’ll get a good laugh out of it.
Firstly, yes, MacRumors did have this announcement first.
Secondly, I have updated (smoothly) and I still don’t see any MobileMe service logos or anything, so I guess there might be one last update before the set release date…? I only mention this because it seemed to be widely reported this 10.5.4 update would activate the hidden code for MobileMe. Oh well.
There’s a guy on Version Tracker writing about OSX upgrades and how rotten is the Apple core. He should regress to windows and then he could really bitch.
Don’t yet see the 10.5.4 Combo Updater on the Apple D/L page as of 1539 MDT.
Any shutdown hangs like were reported with 10.5.3? I haven’t even installed 10.5.3 because of said hangs and because of Firefox incompatibilities. I guess I’ll wait a few days again and see what happens.
MW: I’ll wait to see how “others” do with this update.
Has anyone else had any issues with the EFI Firmware update 1.3??
it was release on April 8th, and i’ve had issues with it (or System Updater) ever since. It constantly says that I need to install the update even though i’ve done so 3 times.
Yay! Fixes Safari’s issue with loading some secure sites. I can finally access my bank’s site again. I was insistently blaming this on my bank for 2 weeks.
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Does it solve the Photoshop 7.0 issues?
And it’s not even Tuesday…
CS3 issue has been fixed… I guess we can go back to bitching about the ridiculous price Adobe charge for CS3.3.
God do Adobe charge crazy prices for CS 3. Over here in the UK we have to pay double what you folks in the US do. I say have to, instead of updating to the Master suite like I originally planned, I just got Illustrator and picked up the Apple equivalent when it comes to video production. Good times.
No problems yet on the core 2 imac. The PBG4 12″ booted twice but seems to be running fine.
“is it snappy????”
Does it have No New Features? It could be Snow Job Leopard in disguise.
Why do people keep on using the word “snappy” in reference to OS updates?? Where did that ever come from?
“The Apple pie is always a trim size, just large enough to carry everything you need, but small enough to fit inside the tiniest of ovens. “
Except when it’s a Leopard Pie. Then it’s so bloated and full of rotten leopard meat that it takes a whole year to bake a replacement pie.
The “snappy” thing came from back when OS X 10.0 came out and was pretty slow and Apple released the update 10.1… It was a huge improvement in overall speed and it was often referred to as “snappy” Then whenever a new update came out like 10.1.1, 10.1.2 and so on it seemed some updates would be a step forward and some were a step backwards. It became commonplace to ask on forums if the newest update fixed any sluggish issues and if it made it “snappier”!
So there you have it the history of “snappy” in reference to OS X!
@ EFI Firmware Update 1.3
I don’t have an EFI-based Mac with me at the moment with which to verify this, but I know firmware updates in the past have often required that you run a special app that gets dropped in your Utilities folder before the update actually completes. Have you done that? If not, that might be why it still wants to download the updater.
Finally 10.5.4 fixes “What’s New”
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There’s also a Safari update and a security update for 10.4 added today.
@Journo,
Unfortunately, MDN was not the first. I saw this news on Macrumors first and no one else had it at the same time. Macrumors beat them by 11 minutes!
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FYI, I’m still running Tiger, and there are updates for it today as well.
@ SMacSteve–
Thanks for the background on that! I had no idea this little tradition goes back like 6 or 7 years. Fairly new to Macs, so I know my inexperience shows now…
Ughh…..did the update and upon restart my G5 hung up, which it hasn’t done in FOREVER!!
Now every single app is running like its stuck in quick sand….working thru all of the basic troubleshooting right now…
Anyone else having issues with powerpc machines? I just got an IM from a friend with very similiar issues as mine….safari is taking a looooooooong time to load every page, and every one of my CS3 apps is coated in syrup….
Wow, it feels 2-3 times faster and it talks to me now…
“Buy… iPod”, “buy… iPhone”, “Buy Mobile Me”, but I already own them. I hope this bug is fixed in 10.5.5
= : P
But, but, where’s the server update? OMGWTFBB!!!11!! I want my Xserve to be snappy too!
Unfortunately, I still can’t access sites that require certificates from my Smart Card! WTF!?! The update was supposed to fix this! Is anybody doing this successfully after the update?
Some readers report that the OS X 10.5.4 update makes your computer snappier just by hearing about it. No installation required! Now that’s what I call “snappy!”
PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz (1st generation) here — no problems updating so far.
Snappy enough right now.
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“Ughh…..did the update and upon restart my G5 hung up, which it hasn’t done in FOREVER!!”
So Apple didn’t even wait for Snow Job leopard to stop testing on the G5
MB updated just fine. AluPB is hung right now at the Running Installer Script step! Aargh!
My PowerMac G5 updated just fine (right now typing on it).
Sho Shnappee!™
*hic*
I hope it’s snappy, but not crackly and poppy.
@ ‘Snow Job Leopard’
Installed on my G5 Quad with no issues. Don’t be such a conspiracy-theory wielding crybaby… Next tim ask around before you jump to the asinine conclusion that your one machine somehow is representative of every G5 out there.
I’m still waiting for Pussy to be released.
Pussy will be released soon.
Does it get rid of the nine million terabytes of useless code (no, not PowerPC) that Apple sloppily left in Leopard and that accounts for the shrinkage of Snow Leopard?
SmartScroll has been fixed. Can’t live without it.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21186
Ay! Muy snappy pussy!
After this update Safari seems to be crashing randomly. Anyone else seeing this type of behavior?
Whoa… The updater wouldn’t work, because it says that I need 4.6 GB of free data to download and install it, and I only have 2.4 GB! 4.6 GB need to be available for a 630.5 MB update? How strange…
Well that’s strange. At GMT 0754 on 1 July, Software Update on my Intel core 2 Duo reports that my 10.53 is “up to date”.
To iDon’t:
You have already been released, so now go away and play with you Vista machine.
I know no one will believe this, but I swear my Mac and Safari does feel like its much more snappier. Now stop snickering, I’m telling the truth. My Mac is much snappier and Safari too after I installed the 500 plus update. So this update is a must for Leopard users. You Mac will be much more snappier than before.
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@gypsie
currently there is a fix for photoshop 7. Its called CS3 you can install it quite as easily as 7 and it actually has an updated interface too. Pretty neat stuff.
Anyone know if this Leopard update fixes the Remote Desktop flaw exploited by that trojan? I’ve read the details of the update and the flaws it fixes, but I haven’t seen the Remote Desktop issue addressed specifically.
I have an overheating problem now. I may have been blipped by a lightning strike. Is anyone experiencing overheating of their PPC G5 Power Mac? I have a dual 1.8 Gig with the 4 slot memory. I have my Tiger install running right now to test my theory. Anybody else?
The Microsoft pie is also huge, and bursting at the seams. The Apple pie is always a trim size, just large enough to carry everything you need, http://www.divx-converter.net but small enough to fit inside the tiniest of ovens.
The Apple app store has been such a huge success because of how they treat their developers. They have such a large selection off apps and that entices users to download random apps and for developers to continue to create apps for the iphone. As an iphone developer I cannot imagine developing for any other phone at this point. This money just isnt anywhere else at this time.