Mac OS X Panther 10.3.9 7W94

[RadishTM Veteran]

New in this seed:

- Active Directory Binding fixed

- Power Mac G5 fan activity performance fix

- Incomplete packets on Power Mac G5 FireWire bus fix

- S topping / starting slave processor repeatedly fix

- You can now change password if authenticated via LDAP to Novell eDirectory LDAP server

From previous seed:

- Improved boot up time for machines with lots of fonts

- SUID scripts now handles race condition better

- FireWire Audio performance fixes

- USB Audio when playing through high speed USB hub (2.0) performancefixes

- XML Parsing can break with long internal DTDs

- Type1 font's '-' no longer vanishes at small point size

- Webcore redering fix when viewing some RSS feeds

- RadarWeb can now send enclosures

- NSURLConnection now sends HTTP body for PUT method (nor for PROPFIND, etc.)

- searchfs() integer overflow fix

- multiple headers parsing in CFNetwork improvement fixes

- Audio drives and third party MIDI devices compatibility fixes

- FireWire batch video capture performance improvements

- fsck_hfs and Extended Attributes fixes

- wake from sleep fixes

- USB EHCI High Speed Isochronous code optimization

- Safari, Mail WebCore fixes

- Improved Directory Services performance

- AFP enumeration performance optimized

- Various video driver fixes

- Automounter volume mounting and re-mounting fixes

- Changes in OBEX.h macros (Object Exchange over Bluetooth)

- semop() system call kernel fix

- /usr/libexec/makewhatis now handles space-separated paths

- Opened Component limit increased to 65000 (from 16000)

- Fax and modem driver fixes

- POSIX async IO FireWire performance fix

- FireWire OHCI software fix

- Java garbage collection optimization

- Kernel version updated to 7.9.0- gethostbyaddr() and DNS resolve fixes

- "Space" in Hiragino font now prints correctly.

- Copying data to a FAT-formatted drive data corruption fix

- NavDialogSetSaveFileExtensionHidden crash fix

- setkey command line tool fix

- SmartcardServices compatibility fix

- Password server slapd fix

- Modem and airfones compatibility improved

- USB printer class driver no longer expose extraneous interfaces

- CUPS driver with raster printers attached to an airport base stationnow displays correct URI

- Host now issues a Synchronize Cache command during I/O or Copy tests

- IOKit now exposing multiple fibre channel paths to LUNs

- libstdc++.dylib now deployed for gcc 4.0.

- More root certificates added

- Wake from sleep performance improvements

- USB FHCI fixes

- USB 2.0 hard drive mounting compatibility fix

Can't wait for Tiger too! :D

Source - http://www.macrumors.com/

Radish?

[smashguy]

Cheers for the news! (Y)

[AcdShdw]

hmm ntfs support nice

[tetuyeda]

almost the same as the security update from the other day

[Long]

NTFS support might make x64 Mac emulation easier :o

[RadishTM Veteran]

NTFS support might make x64 Mac emulation easier :o

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How so?

Radish?

[Long]

How so?

Radish?

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Because if you use apps like CherryOS, it wouldn't need to worry about file system differences, because it Mac OSX could recognise your drive.

[Tungsten T]

So does this mean no nore updates till Tiger?

[Max Veteran]

So does this mean no nore updates till Tiger?

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One update to panther: 10.3.9. Then Tiger.

[SPeedY_B]

Because if you use apps like CherryOS, it wouldn't need to worry about file system differences, because it Mac OSX could recognise your drive.

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As it has NTFS support (read only too, I believe) it doesn't mean you can install the o/s onto an NTFS formatted drive :)

[Martog]

Because if you use apps like CherryOS, it wouldn't need to worry about file system differences, because it Mac OSX could recognise your drive.

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Um, you do realize just because it can read/write to a filesystem (read only in the case of NTFS), that it does not mean it can install to that filesystem. Mac OS X generally only installs to the Mac OS Extended FS (usually journaled now of days), and I think Server can install to UFS as well, but not sure why you would do that. Older OS X's may install just to the normal Mac OS FS. Isn't that HPFS anyhow and Apple just changed the name?

[PureEdit]

Um, you do realize just because it can read/write to a filesystem (read only in the case of NTFS), that it does not mean it can install to that filesystem. Mac OS X generally only installs to the Mac OS Extended FS (usually journaled now of days), and I think Server can install to UFS as well, but not sure why you would do that.  Older OS X's may install just to the normal Mac OS FS. Isn't that HPFS anyhow and Apple just changed the name?

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Client can be installed on UFS also. OS X may have ben able to use the original HFS (not sure), but definitely not on large volumes.

[Martog]

Client can be installed on UFS also. OS X may have ben able to use the original HFS (not sure), but definitely not on large volumes.

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I wasn't sure about Client, I just usually pick OS Extended Journaled anyhow. :) May have been on the older G3's and such which still had small hard drives, the whole 8GB thing with them.

[BTallack]

It's generally a pretty good indication with Apple that a new OS will be released soon when they release 10.x.9.

It was less then a month from OS 10.2.9 until they released Panter.

[Powerless]

They'll release Tiger @ WWDC 2005 i'm sure of it :D

[simmorya]

I cant wait for this patch. Hopefully it will fix all the problems in OSX. Wont be upgrading to Tiger until a 10.4.x is released.

[grimreaper]

i still havent seen 10.3.9 on software update. am i missing something here?

[RM7]

It's still not out yet, officially.

[Martog]

It's generally a pretty good indication with Apple that a new OS will be released soon when they release 10.x.9.

It was less then a month from OS 10.2.9 until they released Panter.

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Actually OS 10.2.8 :) 10.2.9 was never released, not sure if there were seeded builds or not.

[macman87]

Actually OS 10.2.8 :) 10.2.9 was never released, not sure if there were seeded builds or not.

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Panther is the first OS X to have a 10.X.9. ;)

[stoic]

Client can be installed on UFS also. OS X may have ben able to use the original HFS (not sure), but definitely not on large volumes.

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OS X was never able to install on original HFS volumes. HFS+ came in with System 8.1 (which is the same system the original iMac had) so pretty much every machine capable of running OS X would have an HFS+ formatted drive anyway.

The original HFS would not have been POSIX compliant enough for the BSD-basis of OS X (HFS+ isn't entirely POSIX compliant either, as you cannot have filenames which differ only by case, i.e Install and INSTALL would be the same file on HFS+, but with ext2 for example they would be completely different files (this isn't the same as remembering case, HFS+ will remember the case of a filename, it just can't have two files which differ only by case)).

[RadishTM Veteran]

10.3.9 builds continue with 7W86

On late Friday, Apple seeded its Apple Developer Connection members the latest build of the Mac OS X 10.3.9 update, now reported to be at build 7W86.

This new build is about 113.3 MB in size, and the included seed note offers some insight as to what is new in this build compared to previous seeds:

- Issues where enumerating a WebDAV volume via Carbon may fail when a device returns an error were fixed.

- JavaScript function unescape() no longer returns invalid value on certain webpages.

- Inlcudes fixes from Security Update 2005-003.

- iDisk Syncing issues from previous seeds were resolved.

Apple is still asking developers to continue testing in many areas, including AFP file transfers, Bluetooth, DVD Player, Fonts, FireWire devices, Mail, iDisk syncing, Networking, Printing, Safari, Sleep, Terminal, USB devices, and general system stability.

Radish?

[Orson]

So I guess the 10.3.9 will be out very soon now :D

[Vice]

It's leaked.

I think I will wait for official release in case there is something they missed :unsure: don't want to screw my install.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Yeah, rather have it from the "horses mouth" :D

Radish?