Mac OS X 10.4.7 Seeded to Developers

On Monday, Apple seeded builds of Mac OS X 10.4.7 to developers. The builds are reportedly labeled "Mac OS X 10.4.7 build 8J111" for PowerPC-based Macs and "Mac OS X 10.4.7 build 8J2111" for Intel-based Macs.

Mac OS X 10.4.7 will be the seventh maintenance and security update to Mac OS X 'Tiger' since Apple first shipped the software April of last year.

Apple is reported to have asked developers to focus their testing efforts on Mail.app, Safari, Syncing, and iChat. The company also indicated that Mac OS X 10.4.7 would offer improvements for its professional photography customers who are running Aperture.

Those developers testing Mac OS X 10.4.7 have commented that the initial builds of the update are rather stable for an inaugural developer release. They list only a handful of known issues related to the Calculator and Mail.app applications.

Apple is expected to release the software update later this spring, ahead of plans to unveil its next-generation operating system overhaul, code-named Leopard later this summer.

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