Mac OS X 10.5.2 is packing hefty fixes, due January-ish

As much love as Apple's Mac OS X Leopard has received in the press and from users, there are still plenty of bugs that need ironing out. Lucky for those users and those not-easily-embarrassed members of the press, Apple seems to be addressing most of those remaining bugs with its 10.5.2 update, which it just seeded to developers. There are apparently 76 fixes listed in the release notes, ranging from fan-faves like MacBook AirPort funkiness to obscure gems like Rosetta PowerPC compatibility memory leaks. This is just the first distribution of the update, and a release to users is rumored to hit mid-January, coinciding with new hardware at Macworld.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 7:32PM]

So I bought a Macbook about a year ago and the big selling point was bootcamp. Even though it was in beta, I was sold on it because I could always boot into Windows. Now I have to buy Leopard for just this one feature? I don't think I will every buy another Apple product.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 7:47PM]

You don't have to buy it! Just get it from someone else for free or download it off the net!
Apple don't care if people pirate Leopard, they rather people have the latest stuff.
If they were concerned don't you think they would have created some amazing anti-piracy thing yet?

[briane87 Posted Dec 19th 2007 9:53PM]

bootcamp was not the selling point.. it was in beta.. apple themselves even advised using paralells, and im pretty sure they even said that in the tv commercial.. your mistake, not apples

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 5th 2008 2:43PM]

That's why you run it in a virtual machine. The ability to run Windows on a Mac was impressive for, as it helped me with both maintaining and testing my site. I hear VMware is better than Parallels though. In fact, I run Windows in Parallels. It's much easier than rebooting the Mac entirely.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 7:45PM]

Wow, bootcamp was a beta and was advertised to be in Leopard, not Tiger. But I like your style. I read posts on a tech blog today thinking I would see intelligent commentary only to find out I'd have to read a better blog. I'll never read Engadget again.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 8:01PM]

What happened to "It just works?"

[NO DOUBT GET LOUD Posted Dec 19th 2007 9:47PM]

it just went out of style

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 8:17PM]

hopefully this fill fix some problems

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 8:47PM]

I'm sorry there are release notes but we can't see them? We can count them but we can't list them?

Bah... even on the AppleInsider post it seemed no one was actualylcurious about the actual release notes -- just speculating randomly about bugs. The list exists! We gotta see the list!

[blakis08 Posted Dec 19th 2007 8:50PM]

I really hope Apple fixes global warming as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 9:10PM]

yeah the one caused by hot air from all fanboys

[briane87 Posted Dec 19th 2007 9:55PM]

funny thing is, theyre trying (al gore)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2007 10:54PM]

By the looks of it, it HAS been fixed:

http://tinyurl.com/39gnm4

[aMp 732 Posted Dec 19th 2007 10:26PM]

I run XP on one machine Vista on another and OSX Leopard on my Macbook. My friggen macbook has issues loosing connection with my router constantly. Needing to turn off the Airport than turn on sometimes reboot. Etc i hope this pain will be gone. My Windows machines never hiccup on the connection. Browsing also seems much slower even though my macs faster than my old Thinkpad.

I love this Macbook but they need to fix some of the core features. My windows pcs may not get stuff done as flashy but they do what they need to do WORK!

[Anatidae Posted Dec 19th 2007 11:55PM]

I am seriously confused. I watch every mac advertisement and I am SURE that they don't have any bugs in their software. The cool guy says so and embarrasses the PC guy every time!

Did you know mac laptops come with a built-in webcam. Take that PC! hahaha You PCs look like such a fool taping a webcam to your head.

[iPadKing of Tablets Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:30AM]

Since when does Leopard have problems. It's perfect in every way. The problems must be due to installing it on old machines or something. Hey, it just works. I'm sure it will be just fine when I get around to installing it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 5:47AM]

Great news although I must admit I have not had any major problems with Leopard since 10.5.1

[Kamal Posted Dec 20th 2007 6:22AM]

Just don't call it a service pack. :)

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 10:36AM]

I have:

Intel Mac Mini w/ Leopard
G5 Mac w/ Leopard
PowerBook w/Tiger
HP Pavilion Running XP
Gateway Laptop Running Vista Home

1. Intel Mac Mini
Great for day to day stuff with light graphic use / Very little problems. I don't think this computer has ever crashed on me

2. G5
I use it for all my video editing / audio / Web design / Graphic Design / This computer has crashed from time to time. Crash isn't the word, more like locked up. Most of the time, I've found it was a Microsoft product, a font issue or a corrupted preference file that needed to be deleted. Now with Leopard, it has never crashed. If something doesn't go right, it will shut down the software. If you can relaunch it, it runs fine. If you cannot, you do need to restart the computer.

3. Macbook
Again, very little problems, running it very much like the Mac Mini

4. HP
I had bought it not too long ago from a computer store. It was used, but was running XP. I have a couple other computers that could be considered equally bad to this. Partly this is my fault. I let my kids download stuff and didn't realize the many viruses, spyware and exploits. After a major crash due to spyware, I had to reinstall XP. Now I am running multiple creditable spyware programs and a solid virus protection software. It seems to be running better now. By far, the NT system I used (for me) was the most solid and protected PC.

5. Gateway
I know it's Home edition, but come on. I've got 2 G's of Ram in this thing and the processor speed is over 2Ghz, and it runs Vista like a dog. I really would like to convert the machine over to an XP machine, but don't know if I want to fork over another amount of $$ to install it on the system. It looks nice, but Safari Beta works better than IE. That's not a lie. It's a completely new system, very few installs, clean Vista install and still runs like a 10 year old computer bogged down and never cleaned. Huge disappointment.

And that's my story, I'm sticking to it.

[bruckwine Posted Dec 20th 2007 11:58AM]

It's all good isn't it? Updates are usually good news no (except Windows ME, but XP was good!).

[Techlifter Posted Dec 20th 2007 1:04PM]

I just hope they've fixed the airdisk issue. Read/Write speeds drop off substantially for sustained file transfers. Makes the thing crawl and was pretty disappointing.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 9:51PM]

From what I've read and seen screenshots of, Apple has put the old hierarchal menus back with 10.5.2 (as on option, in addition to stacks). Very fantastic.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 30th 2007 5:22PM]

Somewhere in there better be the wireless fixes...
(Source - some hackintosh forum)

New issues fixed in this seed:
- CoreData Framework and NSFetchRequest
- AD DS Plug-in
- HLTB Menus
- Memory leak with Rosetta
- X11.app and customized menu commands
- AirPort shared printer fix
- Disk Utility and FAT32
- HFS and allocated space
- Fix to Process Manager and VISE
- NSNavigationServices and NavServices from a Cocoa application fix
- Reprinting Hold jobs and CUPS
- Fixed issue with Text Input Sources
- Mail Message Body Display issues with certain font types
- DAVKit and iCal redirects
- Calendar Store Framework and CalRecurrenceRule fix
- CoreText Font and PUA unicode characters now work correctly
- rsh jobs no longer waits for backgrounded processes to complete
- Fixed issue HLTB and Finder
- Fixed issue with AppleEvents
- ImageIO preiew issue in Finder fixed
- HIClock now accepts user entries
- smb now handles "%" in password field
- Fixed issue with CUPS and reverse page ordering
- NSTableView and special keys now works correctly
- AF_UNSPEC& null address Networking issue fixed
- Resolved issue with Xquartz and CPU cycles
- Fixed exception issue with KeyChainAccess
- Quartz Composer no longer brings up an error when saving a composition
- Fixed ScreenCapture issue
- Addressed issue with Web Content Filter and Parental Controls
- CUPS no longer prints a blank page when 2-up print setting is selected
- CoreData Framework fix to XML data creation
- Fixed Quick Look plug-in loading issue
- Mail to iCal Data Detectors now work correctly
- Fixed issue with Finder and column view
- Core Audio fix now allows empty m4a files to behave correctly
- Fixed horizontal scroll issue with Finder and Spotlight
- Fixed iChat audio issue with fast user switching
- Core Data apps now save correctly when no document changes have been made
- Fixed issue with Firewall customization settings
- Fixed Active Directory binding issue
- NSTable View -selectAll setting now works correctly
- HLTB Dyhmanic Menus now behave correctly
- Resolved issue with HIImageView
- Fixed issue with ATSCreateFontQueryRunLoopSource
- Mail now treats flags correctly
- Fixed day selection issue with NSDatePicker
- Invalid RR queries problem now resolved
- Input issue with NSTokenField fixed
- Archive & Install problem with Sync Services Translators resolved
- Fixed Spotlight issue with arithmetic expressions
- Fixed problem with Podcast Producer and Wiki running via SSL
- HLTB ApplyTHemeBackground memory leak fixed
- Fixed Numbers printing issue with CoreGraphics
- Fixed permissions problem with NFS
- NSManagedObject now implements dictionaryWithValuesForKeys correctly
- Fixed memory leak in CoreData Framework
- Bitmap-only fonts now work correctly in QuickDraw
- Issue with MusicSequenceSaveSMFData fixed
- SMB File Server reboot issue resolved
- Fixed issue where running a MAC application from a NTFS volume may not work correctly
- NSXMLNSNumberTransformerName now handles NSDecimalNumbers correctly
- Addressed issue with ToDo recurrences and iCal Synchronization
- Issue with NSNavigationServices and kNavCBTerminate resolved
- Fix to AppKit and popup menus
- CTFontCreateCopyWithFamily() now works correctly
- Fixed issue with Tamil IM
- Networking issue with records over sockets fixed
- HIShape symbols in HLTB fixed
- Fixed window flicker issue with PrintManager
- NSArrayController and Lazy Fetching issue resolved
- Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder now works correctly when there's a / in the title
- Fixed issue with "Find Next" and the spelling panel
- Issue with NSTreeController resolved
- Resolved issue with local SOCKS proxy and iChat
- Logged iChats now open quickly