Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Jun 2011 22:51 UTC
"Apple has now released Mac OS X 10.6.8, the eighth maintenance update for Snow Leopard, via Software Update. The update offers a number of fixes implemented since the release of Mac OS X 10.6.7 in late March."
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RE[2]: Apple's engineers getting better
by malxau on Fri 24th Jun 2011 11:02
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One thing that has surprised me is how Apple is still supporting 10.5 given how quick they are to throw the old release under the bus and push people onto the next version...
Apple have had a pretty consistent policy for a long time of issuing "minor" updates to the current release, and security updates only for the previous release. It's quite possible (likely?) that 10.6.8 will be the final minor update for 10.6 under this model, and this will be the final security update for Leopard. After this, PPC users are totally screwed.
RE[3]: Apple's engineers getting better
by kaiwai on Fri 24th Jun 2011 12:45
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Apple have had a pretty consistent policy for a long time of issuing "minor" updates to the current release, and security updates only for the previous release. It's quite possible (likely?) that 10.6.8 will be the final minor update for 10.6 under this model, and this will be the final security update for Leopard. After this, PPC users are totally screwed.
IMHO the last PPC Mac shipped around 6 years ago - personally I think that is pretty damn good in my books; at some point one has to throw in the towel and say, "yeap, I've gotten good mileage out of the machine".
RE[2]: Apple's engineers getting better
by MOS6510 on Fri 24th Jun 2011 11:02
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RE[3]: Apple's engineers getting better
by kaiwai on Fri 24th Jun 2011 12:48
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What has always confused me is how Apple is so happy to break compatibility when it comes to adding or enhancing something but apparently it is 'one step too far' when it comes to breaking compatibility for the sake of security - implementing ASLR system wide has only just come to Mac OS X Lion for example, something that should have been implemented in Snow Leopard (if you're going to break a couple of things why not go for gold and smash a few more things whilst you're at it?).
One thing that has surprised me is how Apple is still supporting 10.5 given how quick they are to throw the old release under the bus and push people onto the next version (especially so given the cheap price of Snow Leopard and same low price repeated again with Lion).
Regarding Webkit, it'll be interesting to see whether the different parts being isolated off will result in a more secure experience as with the case of webkit2 versus webkit1; hopefully we'll get to see some security boffins having a good hack away at it to see whether all the hard work has paid off.