OS X 10.5.6 just around the corner
December 11th 2008
AppleInsider reports that the latest seed of OS X 10.5.6 (aka 9G55) comes to market sans any significant changes from previous seed (9G52). Usually, that level of consistency presages the imminent release of final code.
Thereupon, the client version of OS X 10.5.6 reportedly includes over 100 bug fixes, which AppleInsider says makes it the widest ranging Leopard patch to date, and weighs in at a beefy, better buy two seats for it on the plane, 370MB. Over 80 core components have been modified with MobileMe receiving special attention.
Snow Leopard update
MacRumors also chimes in that they also believe OS X 10.5.6 will be released sooner rather than later with no significant changes noted in recent builds seeded to developers.
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That said, Arn adds that Snow Leopard (10A222), which was released to devs last week, offers new additions to Grand Central (multi-core management) and, chillingly, reportedly is the first build of Apple's next-gen OS that makes Rosetta (PPC emulation) an optional install. The double twist to this story is that Transitive, the company that created / owns Rossetta, was recently purchased by IBM.
Of course, it is believed that the shipping version of Snow Leopard will require an Intel-based Mac and won't run on PPC Macs.
The aside that Rosetta support has been made optional really underscores just how quickly Apple's moving to excise PPC, even code running in emulation on an Intel Mac, from their product line.
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