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Mac OS X Update 10.4.11 (Intel) build 8S2151 Seed Note
Important Installation Instructions
1) The Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update (Delta) updates
- Mac OS X 10.4.10
- Any earlier seed of Mac OS X v10.4.11 ONLY AFTER installing the included reversioner. If you had installed a previous Mac OS X v10.4.11 build 8Sxxx please use the enclosed Reversioner.pkg.
2) The Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update (Combo) updates
- Mac OS X 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, 10.4.3, 10.4.4, 10.4.5, 10.4.6, 10.4.7, 10.4.8, 10.4.9 or 10.4.10
- Any earlier seed of Mac OS X v10.4.11 ONLY AFTER installing the included reversioner. If you had installed a previous Mac OS X v10.4.11 build 8Sxxx please use the enclosed Reversioner.pkg.
Please be aware that you will not be able to revert back to your previous system after updating. Please install this update on a system you are prepared to erase if necessary.
As this is a pre-release build, it is not advisable to use this software on a production system with information on it that you depend on for your business.
Known Issues
- There is an issue with the previous build, 8S144 and 8S2144, where installing the reversioner and installing 8S151/8S2151 will not properly complete the update. If you have installed 8S144 or 8S2144 and want to update to a later build of 10.4.11, boot off of a non-10.4.11 partition and install the reversioner and update, or reinstall a GM system and update to 8S151/8S2151.
- FireWire drives may not mount on Intel machines with 8S2151
Focus Areas
- Address Book
- AFP services
- AirPort
- Audio (USB, Firewire)
- Bluetooth
- Disk Images
- Dock
- FireWire devices
- Installer
- Networking
- PCI Express Cards
- Safari
- UDF Images
Bug Reporting
This build is being provided to you for testing and development purposes. Should you encounter any problems, please submit a bug report using the online Bug Reporter at <http://bugreporter.apple.com/>. In the bug title and description include the build information ("8S2151 (Delta)" or "8S2151 (Combo)"). This information will ensure that your bug is reviewed quickly.
When submitting a bug report include a Summary, Steps to Reproduce, Actual Results, Expected Results, the System Profile Report, and any other relevant information that is necessary to process the report.
IMPORTANT: Engineering requires additional information for crashing bugs, kernel panics, and hanging issues.
Crashing Bugs: Crash logs are required for crashing bugs. Crash logs can be retrieved from ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter or /Library/Logs/CrashReporter
Kernel Panics: Backtraces, which contain vital information for investigating kernel panics, are required for kernel panic issues. Backtraces can be saved to nvram on Restart Shutdown, then copied to the panic.log file on restart. The panic.log file can be found in /Library/Logs.
Hanging Issues: When an application is hung, a sample should be provided. This can be done using the Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities/). To generate a sample using this utility, click on the hung application name, then from the Process Menu select "Sample".
For complete instructions on submitting bug reports, please visit the Bug Reporting page at:
<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/bugreportingguide.html>
Thank you for your support.
Apple Developer Connection
Areas of Change
New issues fixed in this seed:
- Hang at shutdown trying to unmount an NFS volume
- Sun Mass Storage Device TB size now displayed correctly
- NSURL -(BOOL)isFileURL returns correct value for URL's without a scheme
- Significant audio drift with pulldown removal of clip with broken cadence
- Machine hangs/no feedback during afp copies over network
Issues fixed from previous seeds:
- Networking and VPN
- Bluetooth
- Networking and kernel control socket
- UDF and fragmented files
- VPN and L2TP
- AppleRAID
- AppleVADriver
- SAM Block Devices
- Rosetta when prebinding is off
- USB modem and record level
- modem driver
- USB modem driver and false rings
- CoreAudio and m4a files
- WebCore Editing
- VPN and L2TP
- AFP Server
- CUPS and IPP
- dyld and prebinding
- CoreTextFont
- ImageIO
- dyld and threaded programs
- SearchKit
- enabling/disabling Bluetooth
- CoreAudio and Safari
- CoreAudio and decoding iTunes Plus files
- File Manager and POSIX volumes
- Daylight Savings and New Zealand time zones
- Networking and Cisco VPN
- Networking and UDP packets
- HFS and non-existent blocks
- Directory Services
- AFP X Client and Kerberos
- SearchKit and Zip disks
- Text Service Manager
Legal Notices
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