[ADC Beta] 10.5.6 – 9G55 Seed notes

General Focus Areas

- AccountsPref

- AddressBook

- AFP

- AirPort

- apache

- AppKit

- AppleBacklight

- AppleDictionary

- AppleDisplays

- AppleFWAudio

- AppleGraphicsControl

- AppleGraphicsPowerManagement

- AppleHIDMouse

- AppleHWRaidUtility

- ApplicationFirewall

- AppleWWANSupport

- AutomatorActionsBinaries

- ATS

- Automator

- backupd

- BatteryMonitor

- BezelServices

- Bom

- BomArchiveHelper

- Bluetooth

- BootCache 

- Calculator

- CFNetwork

- Chess

- CoreAudio

- CoreFoundation

- CoreGraphics

- CoreMidi

- CoreServices

- CoreTypes

- cups

- DirectoryService

- DiscRecording

- diskdev_cmds

- DiskImages

- Dock

- DVDPlayer

- DVDPlayback

- Finder

- Foundation

- gnutar

- GraphicsDrivers/OpenGL

- HIToolbox

- iCal

- iChat

- ImageCapture

- Installation & Setup

- IOSerialFamily

- IOStorageFamily

- Keyboard & Mouse

- KeychainAccess 

- KeychainScripting

- LoginWindow

- Mail

- MobileMe

- Networking

- Network File System

- OpenSSH

- Parental Controls

- PDFKit

- Printing

- QuartzComposer

- QuartzCore

- RAWCameraSupport

- Safari: HTTP Cookies, HTTP Proxies

- SmartCardServices

- Spaces

- Spotlight Syncing

- System Preferences

- TimeMachine

- TimeZoneData

- udf

- Video Conferencing

- webdavfs

- xnu

Areas of Change

- Safari cookies and expiration time fix

- OpenGL rendering fix

- Fix cursor unresponsiveness after long sleep on some machines

Issues fixed in previous seeds:

- Fixed issue with CFNetServiceGetProtocolSpecificInformation returning invalid CFStringRef

- Improved FileSyncAgent stability on the server

- Fixed printing issues in Rosetta

- Fixed compatibility with Safari and Cookies

- AudioQueueStart() and intermittent pause fix

- Misc graphics corruption fixes

- Fixed issue with DAVKit and error handling code

- Resolved issue with MLTE Controls and data capture

- Fixed issue with Bluetooth Preferences panel

- Fixed issue with MobileMe dotmacsyncclient and error messaging

- Resolved issue with Automatic bookmark syncing and dotmacsyncclient

- Fixed issue with Sync Services and slow sync prompt

- Fixed issue with DVI and display detection

- Issue with Superdrive and eject sound resolved

- Fixed issue with MobileMe pref pane and periodic syncing

- Fixed issue with printing a PDF file from Mail.app

- Resolved issue with LaunchServices and downloading playlists

- Resolved problem with Sync Services and calendar syncing

- Resolved issue with FileSync and FileSyncAgent

- Fixed issue with syslog and duplicate message suppression

- Fixed multitouch issue with Finder

- Resolved issue with USB disconnect warning dialog

- Fixed issue with notified syncs and dotmacsyncclient

- Fixed issue with System Preferences and MobileMe sync tab

- Issue with KeychainAccess and prompting of passwords resolved

- AFP Server no longer caches FPGetSessionToken

- AFP Server now turns off replay cache for non replay clients

- AFP Client now advertises that it supports Replay cache

- Bluetooth and USB in closed lid mode compatibility fix

- FileSyncAgent syncing fix

- HTTP basic authentication with long URL containing username/password fix

- iCalExternalSync – you can now change the record identifier to RootNode

- Misc localization fixes

- Buenos Aires (Argentina) Local Time One Hour time change fix

- Fixed issue with CFNetwork and Content-Disposition file names

- Addressed issue with CoreTypes and certain zip file contents

- Fixed problem with USB OTG Disks and Mass Storage

- Fixed issue with Parental Controls and idle sleep

- Fixed issue with Parental Controls and curfew login

- Fixed issue with iDisk Syncing

- Fixed Calculator issue with Swiss German

- Fixed network server file copying issue

- Addressed issue with AudioQueue and CoreAudio

- Fix to Network Authorization UI

- Fixed issue with AirPort Drivers and “off” setting

- Issue with decoding GIF images and CoreGraphics resolved

- Fixed issue with Mail and authentication of inactive accounts

- Resolved issue with iCal Search and text search

- Fixed issue with iCal Alarms not firing in certain situations

- Problem with Quick Look and CoreGraphics resolved

- Issue with iChat setup assistant fixed

- Fixed issue with firewall configs being reset after upgrading

- Resolved issues with CFURLCookies

- Address books syncing fixes

- AFP server login fixes

- Graphic drivers performance fixes

- New iCal Events and AppleScript applet fix

- Safari and cookies compatibility fixes

- Core Audio and AU component version mismatch fix

- Multiple instances of MatrixReverb in separate threads fix

- Core Audio compressor threshold fix

- Switching default audio device’s output stream is now immediate

- More channels for Core Audio 3D mixer

- Programmatically created (public) aggregate device now plays correctly

- Audio Channel Layouts and Unique ID fix

- Changing the composition of an aggregate device audio dropout fix

- kAudioSubDevicePropertyDriftCompensation property can now be set on an aggregate device

- Renaming aggregate devices now propagate device name changes to all applications

- AudioFileOpenURL memory management fix

- CoreAudio AudioFileWritePackets file creation fix

- audioqueue compatibility fixes

- audio file stream compatibility fixes

- ExtAudioFileCreateNew memory management fix

- ADTS files now supports kAudioFilePropertyPacketSizeUpperBound

- Core Audio performance fixes

- CGDisplayBaseAddress and 64bit binaries compatibility fix

- Command-H and applications hiding fix

- FSCatalogSearch() on 64 bit binary app now returns correct results

- iCalExternalSync floating events and stability fixes

- iCal can now identify VTIMEZONE with a simple offset and no transition dates

- Setting iChat setting to “invisible” via AppleScript now keeps you logged in

- Embed ColorSync Profile” in Image Capture no longer leaves invisible file behind

- Image Capture Architecture performance fixes

- Show(Hide)Window() without Window menu memory management fixes

- Linked binary with NFS shares fix

- Keychain Access: Change Password now works for smart cards

- AppleScript/Keychain Scripting now saves passwords as UTF-8

- pthread operation support fixes

- Access times on FAT32 formatted USB external drive performance fix

- Fixed issue with large file (4gb+) writes to LINUX nfs server when initiated from finder

- NFS export and hostname resolution at startup fix

- copying from a framebuffer object to a texture via glCopyTexSubImage2D fix

- GL_ARB_occlusion_query now works with multiple in-flight queries

- Dealloc method of Cocoa PDE is now called when Print dialog is closed

- Two-Sided Checkbox now follows PPD UIConstraints

- Carbon Printing sheets and window flickering issue fix

- ‘Collated’ can now be set as default in print dialog

- Print sheet now honors first page/last page settings

- PDFView now works with undoManager when its document is set

- Paper sizes and some PPDs compatibility fixes

- AERecord-to-NSDictionary translation now handles ‘usrf’ fields.

- Support for serial smart card readers in pcscd

- SyncServer performance fix

- AppKit recognition of xml-format webarchives

- Latest time zone changes for Brazil, Europe, Argentina, etc

- Uploading of files to more than one webDAV volume at the same time fix

- X11 application gnubg segmentation fix