10.5.3 Drops!
Written on May 28, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 11 people have commented
While puttering about this morning, I noticed in the notes for Delicious Library 2 – yes, I use it, and yes, I know I don’t really need it – that it prefers 10.5.3. ‘10.5.3?’ I asked myself. ‘But that’s not out yet….’
Ah, but Software Update says it is! Bringing a host of fixes, including the long- and impatiently-awaited fixes to NVidia graphics cards, it should be a very, very worthwhile bump indeed for many users of newer Macs.
For full info, see the Apple documentation here. 10.5.3 is available as a 420 mb update through Software Update, and (hopefully soon) as both a delta and a standalone update on Apple’s site.
Check back here for updates on any problems if you prefer to be cautious and let others try it out first.
Matt Radel on May 28th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Nice catch eagle eye! Man, that’s pretty crazy – I was just wondering when that was gonna be released.
Jeremy on May 28th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
argh! I want it to test out the changes to dl2, but this initial mozy upload is taking FOREVERRRRRR, gonna be at least another day.
so what are the changes with dl2 anyone?
millions on May 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I’m having problems ever since I put 10.5.3 on, which is too bad, because I was looking forward to it FIXING problems!
Marian on May 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I don’t have any problems at all. It has fixed some of things that annoyed me most, the last weeks…
Wysiwyg on May 28th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Holy Schnauzer, 420Mb?
Wysiwyg on May 28th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
BTW:
“Fixes a font issue that could result in Helvetica Narrow being used in applications instead of Helvetica.”
Good! iWeb and Pages were driving me crazy with this.
millions on May 29th, 2008 at 3:09 am
seems to be working fine now. After the initial install and restart both Mail and Safari froze and had to be force quit multiple times. After one (or two?) reboots it seems to work fine.
Honza on May 29th, 2008 at 10:34 am
So far so good on my Quad Core hackintosh. Slightly higher (~3-5%) scores on Xbench too!
DavidR on June 1st, 2008 at 12:47 am
I’ve seen a reintroduction of sleep problems with 10.5.3. The situation seemed to have improved in 10.5.2, but under 10.5.3 I’ve have just witnessed my Intel iMac waking up from sleep to run Time Machine.
christine Boos on June 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
i just had to back up my G5 and format my drive to get 10.5.3 off my system. i am reinstalling leopard and downloading 10.5.2 i had no problems with it.
10.5.3 makes my system take 15 MINUTES just to boot and doesn’t restart or wake from sleep properly.
i hope apple resolves this soon.