Apple keeps on improving is Leopard operating system at a serious pace. The company released Mac OS X 10.5.4 today, with the standard blurb attached to it: “The Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. “ The update includes fixes concerning AirPort, iCal, Safari, Spaces, and Expose. Software Update will bug you with the new release, or you can just start the updater yourself.
This update is probably related to iTunes 7.7 (iPhone 2.0) and Mobile Me, but hopefully it’s a sign of more timely bug fixing and security patching on Apple’s part.
I think that they were concerned with the finger-pointing from Adobe concerning the network saves being corrupted more than anything else. They just happened to have some other issues fixed in the meantime.
10.5.5 will take longer and have a lot more meat.
The story only included a link for a listing of the bug fixes, security fixes are listed at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163
Edited 2008-06-30 23:16 UTC
I just downloaded this update from the software update program. Once it downloaded you have to restart, during the restart a progress bar pops up showing the installation progress. However once the progress bar got about a quarter of the way along it stopped… so I left it. 2 hours later it was still there, so I turned the computer off and on again. This time it seems to have worked…. the computer claims to be running 10.5.4…. but still…. surely a OS update shouldn’t freeze. I once had the please of having half of one version of OSX installed over another version. When it started you got a blue screen with a rows of matrix style characters flowing down parts of the screen. and that’s as far as it ever got.
Update worked fine for me…
5 minutes to download (87MB)…
5 minutes to install.
Edited 2008-07-01 13:01 UTC
You’re on an Intel-based machine? The download was 59 MB for my PowerPC-based machine.
The update went smoothly. They’ve apparently worked on the virtual memory system again, as the occasional stuttering is gone and the system is faster. Still, not as fast as 10.4.10 but it seems the best of 10.5.x.
I’ve tried to update on my kalyway leopard but fail got freezed on 40% restarted and saw it didn’t update. did anyone tried on kalyway or should i need to install some kernel pkgs ?.
You might want to wait until they’ve hacked the latest upgrade. Upgrades are often meant to break hackintoshes, that’s what you get for violating Apple’s EULA.