OS X 10.11 El Capitan announced


The next major release of OS X appears to be more incremental, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. OS X El Capitan (10.11) appears to be largely focused on improving the user experience and not so much in the way of major new features.

The biggest new feature appears to be support for Apple's Metal graphics layer that was introduced in iOS. Other stuff includes new Spotlight options that seem to pull more information out of OS X and its apps into a more user-friendly dashboard. Notes also get a little more useful, although I don't see it winning over Evernote anytime soon.

A lot of the features really seem focused on polish and performance. From the new San Francisco system font, to improved performance, to nifty shortcuts to improve your workflow.

OS X El Capitan is expected to ship this fall for free. A public preview will be made available in July.