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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.5

Monday, September 15, 2008 - 05:05 PM EST

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.5.5 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.
• Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
• Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
• Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
• Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
• Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
• Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
• Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
• Improves Speech Dictionary.
• Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
• Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Address Book
• Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.
• Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.

Disk Utility and Directory Utility
• Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.
• Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.

iCal
• Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.
• Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.
• Resolves an issue in which the "Refresh All" option may be dimmed ("grayed out") in the contextual menu for certain calendars.
• Fixes issues with read-only calendars.
• Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.
• Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.

Mail
• Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.
• Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.
• Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
• Addresses an issue with the "Organized by Thread" view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.
• Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.
• Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.
• Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.

MobileMe
• Improves overall sync reliability.
• Improves Back to My Mac reliability.

Time Machine
• Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
• Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.
• Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.
• Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).

Mac OS X 10.5.5 is available via Software Update and also via standalone installers found on Apple's Software Updates Website here.

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Sep 15, 08 - 04:09 pm Comment from: Mac Daddy

Luvly! Something to do this evening.

Sep 15, 08 - 04:18 pm Comment from: rsbell

downloading now!

Sep 15, 08 - 04:20 pm Comment from: BdonDan

BYAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Sep 15, 08 - 04:20 pm Comment from: Spudly

Finally! I hope this means we can sync published (subscribed to) calendars to our iPhones again!!!

Sep 15, 08 - 04:22 pm Comment from: Farlo

Is it snappy?!

(Someone had to get that out of the way...)

Sep 15, 08 - 04:22 pm Comment from: Mac Ed

Is it better to install using Update or Standalone???

Sep 15, 08 - 04:25 pm Comment from: Charlie

Looks like the only improvement missing is ... an up trend on AAPL stock.

Sep 15, 08 - 04:26 pm Comment from: PaKo

Snappier as always.

Sep 15, 08 - 04:41 pm Comment from: tazaracsp

I'm already backing up my entire computer and about to do a complete reformat. I can't Wait! The only way to install any new update, is to do a complete clean install and manually put everything back. Don't use time machine to restore stuff back. Just make a new Time Machine Backup. It's always better that way.

Sep 15, 08 - 04:44 pm Comment from: alansky

"Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space."

Time Machine is supposed to delete the oldest backups to make room for new backups when the disk gets full—which means that the message "not enough free space" should never appear unless there is not enough space on the backup drive for the very first Time Machine backup.

Sep 15, 08 - 04:46 pm Comment from: alansky

The 10.5.5 combo updater is now available for download.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:05 pm Comment from: Famous Grouse

Oh, great, another reboot. Only 4 days and 9 hours since the last update - Quicktime or something.

I realize the user can control the update frequency in Software Update, but the number of fixes and updates emerging from Cupertino is starting to rival that from Redmond. Seems to me that in the waning days of 10.4, we'd go 60 days or so between forced restarts.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:13 pm Comment from: Jubei

@Farlo

Yes its SNAPPALICIOUS.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:17 pm Comment from: Michael Phelps

My Speedo is snappier.....

Sep 15, 08 - 05:23 pm Comment from: MacLivre

Ma souris est snappier! Merci Pomme!

Sep 15, 08 - 05:23 pm Comment from: @Famous

the number of fixes and updates emerging from Cupertino is starting to rival that from Redmond.

I'll take a proactive Apple update over a reactive MS update any day.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:26 pm Comment from: MikeR

I'm still running Tiger on my MBP and it's fine. I'm also still running Panther on my old desktop 450. That still runs fine as well. I think I'll update to Snow Leopard during this decade.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:27 pm Comment from: Yours Smugly

Snappy snappy joy joy!

Sep 15, 08 - 05:40 pm Comment from: Frustrated

Please fix Directory Services!!!! I should have stayed on Tiger for another year. Leopard is my biggest nightmare in almost 10 years of managing a district of Macs!!

Sep 15, 08 - 05:43 pm Comment from: paddywack

@grouse

You could also act like a redmond worshipper and only upgrade once a month if that's how you feel.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:45 pm Comment from: Cubert

It's all the little things in the updates that matter - not just what Apple officially says.

My 2 dollars (inflation).

Sep 15, 08 - 05:46 pm Comment from: Cubert

Combo. Never the delta. Expecially once you get to the .5 release.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:47 pm Comment from: Cubert

That one was for free.

Feeling charitable today.

And again.

Sep 15, 08 - 05:50 pm Comment from: Nic Aragon

Still no blu-ray support. WTF

Sep 15, 08 - 06:23 pm Comment from: Dan The Man

TIME MACHINE WORKS! WHOOOO HOOOOOOO!

Sep 15, 08 - 07:00 pm Comment from: bond co. stooge

My reboot was snappier...

Sep 15, 08 - 08:05 pm Comment from: kirkrr

Address book now can print both company name and person name - a historical deficiency now! Wonder what other hidden goodies abound.

Sep 15, 08 - 08:16 pm Comment from: Tommyr

I like peas!

Sep 15, 08 - 08:17 pm Comment from: Spot

Still Indexing..........

Sep 15, 08 - 08:22 pm Comment from: Chuck U Farley

Snappy is as snappy does.

Sep 15, 08 - 08:54 pm Comment from: wlady

That's nice. Following the link takes me to an Apple page with the link to DL 10.5.5. Click on it & I get to the 10.5.4 DL page!!

Apple seem to be getting many things somewhat askew these days.

Too much iPhone!

Sep 15, 08 - 09:09 pm Comment from: Always Right

no sound (internal speakers) after update.

?

Sep 15, 08 - 09:26 pm Comment from: don

Time Machine is now taking forever "Preparing Backup..." - what gives?

Sep 15, 08 - 10:11 pm Comment from: Modbus

"Famous Grouse"

My glass is half full. Yours is an empty, ripped paper cup someone with hepatitis spit in before setting your car on fire.

Sep 15, 08 - 10:22 pm Comment from: Fitz

This is the funnest update ever!

Sep 15, 08 - 10:44 pm Comment from: ken1w

Did my usually system update routine... Start up from my external Emergency/Maintenance Startup Drive. Run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk routine. Restart from normal startup drive. Run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk Permissions routine. Run Software Update to install the system update. After restart, run Disk Utility using the Repair Disk Permissions routine, one more time.

As usual, no problems so far...

Sep 16, 08 - 01:32 am Comment from: Ted

And I did my usual routine (in silk stockings of course)... turn around three times chanting "it just works, it just works, it just works" followed by clicking the mouse once while exhaling... I made sure I had buried the toad earlier in the evening in the back yard... lucky for us it's a full moon!

As usual no problems so far...

Sep 16, 08 - 01:47 am Comment from: Jim - TIV

doing my usual routine.... clicking on download now and going to bed.

Sep 16, 08 - 01:47 am Comment from: ken1w

> Time Machine is now taking forever "Preparing Backup..." - what gives?

It did take a while the first time after the update. Must be making some changes to the archive. Subsequent backup only took a few seconds.

Sep 16, 08 - 04:39 am Comment from: YoYo

Later I will try with the other machines, but at least this iMac 2.4GHz didn't like the update.

Maybe it‘s that I am using fake Chinese DSL, but I get this error message: "The Installer could not validate the contents of the ‘MacOSXUpd10.5.5Patch’ package".

Sep 16, 08 - 07:13 am Comment from: Jamie

@YoYo,

I had a similar problem with my girlfriends PowerBook the other month... turns out the date in OS X had been reset to 1980 or something, so all the certificates etc. were out of sync.

Reset the date to the correct year, and all was good.

Sep 16, 08 - 07:44 am Comment from: Rats

It didn't do anything for my crappy WiFi.

Sep 16, 08 - 07:58 am Comment from: Raving MacHead

Windows Vista and XP are much crappier!

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