os x Apple Releases Second OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers, Public Beta 5

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Apple Releases Second OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers, Public Beta 5

 

Apple today released a second golden master candidate of OS X Yosemite to developers, a week after releasing the first candidate golden master and the fourth public beta. Apple has also released the fifth public beta to those who signed up to beta test the new Mac OS.

 

The latest Yosemite update, build 14A386a, can be downloaded from the Mac App Store and through Apple's Mac Dev Center.

 

OS X Yosemite brings a flatter, more modern look to OS X, with an emphasis on translucency and redesigned dock, windows, and more. It also includes a multitude of new features, such as improved integration with iOS 8 through Continuity, a new "Today" view in Notification Center that offers integration with third-party apps, a retooled Spotlight search with new data sources, and several new features for apps like Mail, Safari, and Messages.

 

Over the course of the beta testing period, each Developer Preview has added new features and refined the look and performance of OS X Yosemite, although changes have become less obvious in more recent builds as Apple begins finalizing Yosemite ahead of its public release, which is expected in late October.

 

The current build, like the previous golden master candidate, may not be the final version of OS X Yosemite, depending on the outcome of final testing. Last year, Apple seeded multiple golden master versions of OS X Mavericks, with the final version coming a couple of days ahead of the software's public release.

 

Source: Mac Rumours

[Boo Berry]

Nice, updated.

[TDT]

Me too. Is there a changelog somewhere?

[TDT]

GM candidate 3 out. Only 54 MB.

[DeadEndAccount]

Everything going well so far and hopefully with the announcement on 16 October we'll see them announce the release date of Yosemite and looking through this:

 

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/General/Reference/APIDiffsMacOSX10_10SeedDiff/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014444

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_10.html

 

There appears to be a lot of under the hood changes such as changes to Grand Central Dispatch, improvements to OpenGL for multiple GPU's, a focus on expanding AV Foundation and AV Kit so that it becomes feature complete when compared to QuickTime/QtKit etc. so it will be interesting to see what the feedback will be like when developers start taking advantage of those changes.

[TDT]

I wonder, would it be possible to update from a GM to the public release? :huh:

[Hurmoth]

I don't know which build the was removed in, but has anyone else noticed that the option to pair an Apple remote is gone?

"Disable remote control infrared receiver" no longer exists in System Preferences.

Above is Yosemite

 

Above is Mavericks

[serendypity]

Hi, 

Did you find a solution ? because I ve just move to Yosemite and my apple remote did not work anymore... Manu thanks for your help.

 

 

[Menge]

I don't know which build the was removed in, but has anyone else noticed that the option to pair an Apple remote is gone?

"Disable remote control infrared receiver" no longer exists in System Preferences.

Hi, 

Did you find a solution ? because I ve just move to Yosemite and my apple remote did not work anymore... Manu thanks for your help.

Clean install on a 2011 MBP here and it still shows that option to disable the IR Receiver.

[Hurmoth]

Apparently Apple removed the IR receiver from the 2013 iMacs. I didn't realize that until I was going to play with Squire and then the option wasn't there, so I looked it up and sure enough Apple removed it.