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Yesterday, Apple released the 5th revision to OSX Leopard, 10.5.5. With over 130 bugs documented in 10.5.4, we were hoping it would solve at least a few of the known ones. Did it?

Hit the jump for more details …

According to Apple, the following fixes and improvements were included within the 10.5.5 system update:

General

• Includes recent Apple security updates.

• Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.

• Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.

• Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.

• Improves Spotlight indexing performance.

• Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.

• Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.

• Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).

• Improves Speech Dictionary.

• Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.

• Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Address Book

• Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.

• Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.

Disk Utility and Directory Utility

• Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.

• Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.

iCal

• Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.

• Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.

• Resolves an issue in which the “Refresh All” option may be dimmed (“grayed out”) in the contextual menu for certain calendars.

• Fixes issues with read-only calendars.

• Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.

• Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.

Mail

• Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.

• Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.

• Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.

• Addresses an issue with the “Organized by Thread” view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.

• Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.

• Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.

• Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.

MobileMe

• Improves overall sync reliability.

• Improves Back to My Mac reliability.

Time Machine

• Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.

• Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.

• Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.

• Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).

Source

.. At least it was worth the wait. Apple have been seeding developer’s 10.5.5 for it seems forever, but finally it’s hit, and by the looks of it, with an almost impressive list of bugs fixes.

Mac Rumors point out some of the more interesting improvements as being:

- Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
- Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
- Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
- In MobileMe: improves overall sync and Back to My Mac reliability.
- Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.

Overall after updating I feel system response to be ’snappier’ with less Adobe Photoshop CS3 crashes – which is a plus! Will we see this release fix previous problems with ‘Sleep’ on iMac and Macbook Pros? – Who knows. The update is available through OSX Software Update.

Apple’s support document outlining the procedure of updating and improvements included in this release, can be found here.