Apple has released the latest update to Mac OS X Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.6. It contains a whole list of fixes and improvements, so have fun checking out if your favourite bug has been squashed. As always, it’s in Software Update. Feel free to report success or epic fail in the comments.
Downloaded the offline installer as I have three machines to update… almost 700MB worth of updates.
The Software Update version even stalled for me, it stuck at “expanding and verifying” for long period with no activity (according to Activity Monitor). Offline version installed just fine.
Thanks for the offline tip. 10.5.6 stalled for me during the compulsory shutdown, at the space nebula screen with the activity monitor at about 4%. Stayed there for about six hours till I powered off.
Because Apple are so anal about protecting their pathetic little secrets, I have no idea how to find out what is wrong or what I can do about it.
I installed on a older iBook and an iMac with no problems.
Anyone else having a problem in which Time Machine volumes appear as normal remote volumes?
Minor, yes, but it bugs me. Functionality seems unaltered, though…
“Addresses inaccuracies with Calculator when the Mac OS X language is set to German or Swiss German.”
chuchichäschtli!
and it only took them three years to fix this simple error, which was introduce with 10.4.3:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23947?viewlocale=de_DE&locale=de_DE
Recently OSNews hasn’t been showing properly for me, it came up as garbage only appeared properly after I press reload a few times.
It seems to have fixed this.
Lack of Mac news? ;o)
The distortion bug when using some wireless USB headsets, that was first introduced in version 10.5.4, has been fixed! My Logitech clearchat wireless was one of these affected, very nice to have the microphone recording clearly again!
DVD Player stopped with those pesky hiccups, Mail now quits when I shutdown the computer, and that’s pretty much what I’ve noticed.
and that is a good thing… 🙂
Oh, in About This Mac, I noticed 10.5.5 has changed to 10.5.6, so I wasn’t entirely honest with my title – lol
Parallels still runs up fine, that is always a good thing :-)…
10.5.6 update screwed my ability to transfer any file to a remote volume. We have PPC G5’s and Intel workstations, with an Xserve as the server. After the update, I couldn’t transfer any of my files to the mounted xserve volume.. This is only happening on machines with the update installed. Anyone else having this problem? These machines have been working perfectly until this update. EErrrr.
Did we update OS X Server and reinitialize our mounts?
Server first, then clients.
Glad to see that they’re still working on the performance. It’s been a while since I ran 10.4.10, but things still tend to grind a while longer compared to that, even with 10.5.6 on my PowerBook. Thankfully, they didn’t re-introduce the bug from 10.5.5 that made Adobe Bridge CS3 loop endlessly, which was just recently fixed.
However, I’ll take any improvement that comes my way and I appreciate any effort Apple make.
Run repair permissions (in disk utility).
It fixes zillions of them.
DoD CAC cards now work on USB smart card readers out of the box. When you insert the CAC card the certificates show up in Keychain Access. I have been waiting since 10.5.0 for that “feature.” Software such as ADmitMAC ($141) is no longer required.
Safari still requires custom identify preferences (exception rules) in Keychain Access in order to prompt for the CAC PIN number on specific URLs, instead of a username/password. Firefox is smarter than that (requires no custom rules for each CAC enabled URL) in Ubuntu 8.10. I have not tried Firefox under Leopard.
Finally, support for smart card enabled DoD websites.
Ran the combo installer on my daughter’s macbnook, all is well:)