Apple Begins Work on Mac OS X 10.6.2 [Seed Notes]

This week Apple released two builds of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to the developer community. The builds, 10C514f and 10C519f came just four days apart and already contain a sizeable number of fixes and focus areas.

The latest build 10C519f weighs in at 456.94MB for the combo update.

Seed notes for Mac OS X 10.6.2 10C519f below.

Known Issues

There may be video corruption lines with certain video cards
Core Data is generating incorrect SQL and returning wrong results
In Koetori, pressing + may not behave as expected
In some systems with external display attached, opening System Preferences causes the system to hang

General Focus Areas

AddressBook
AFP
apache
AppleBacklight
AppleDisplays
AppleScript
AppleWWANSupport
ApplicationFirewall
AppKit
Apache Portable Runtime
ASR
ATS
ATSUI
Battery Menu Extra
Bluetooth
CarbonCore
CFNetwork
CFPropertyList
CFRunLoop
CFURL
ColorSync
Component Manager
configd
Core Chinese Engine
Core Media
Core Animation
Core Applications
CoreAudio
CoreData Framework
CoreData Predicates
CoreFoundation
CoreGraphics
CoreImage
CoreMedia
CorePDF
CoreServicesUIAgent
CoreText
CoreTypes
CoreUI
CoreVideo
CrashCatcher
Date Time Prefs
Dictionary Application
Dock
ExchangeWebServices
Expose
Family Controls
Fax
FileSync
FileURL
Finder
Fonts
Foundation
Front Row
Garbage Collection
GraphicsDrivers
GPU Compute
Help Viewer
HFS
High Level Toolbox
iCal
iCal Exchange
iChat Audio/Video/BuddyList/Jabber/Menu/Pref
ICU
iDisk Syncing
Image Capture
ImageIO
ImageKit
Inkwell
InstallCmds
IOAHCIBlockStorage
IOHIDFamily
IOPlatformPluginFamily
IONetworkingFamily
IOKit Kernel
iPhoto
IPSec
Japanese Analysis
Kerberos
Kernel
KeychainAccess
Kotoeri Dictionary Trainer
Language Analysis
Latent Semantic Mapping
LaunchServices
libdispatch
LibInfo
libpcap
libsecurity
libxml2
LoginWindowUI
Mail
mDNSResponder
Migration
MobileMe
Mosaic Screen Saver
network_cmds
Networking
Network Pref Pane
NTFS
Objective C
OpenCL
OpenGL
OSInstaller
PackageKit
Parental Controls
Phone Conduit Sync
Photo Booth
Preview
Printing
Quartz Composer Engine
QuickLook Office
QuickTime
QuickDraw Manager
QuickTime Player
Screen Saver
Screen Sharing
securityd
security_certificates
SecurityAgent
Software Update
Spaces
Speech Recognition
Spell Checker
Spotlight
Sync Services
System Prefs
System Configuration
System UI Server
Text Checking
Time Machine
Time Zone Data
Traditional Chinese Input Method
Translation Widget
Universal Access Pref Pane
URLMount
USB
Voice Over
VPN
Weather Widget
WebDAVFS
xQuery
xType

Areas of Change
Fixed in current seed:

Dock: Cmd-Tab app switcher now loops with single key press
File Manager: There was a slight delay on unmounting when signed up for NSWorkspaceWillUnmountNotification
GraphicsDrivers: Quartz Composer was crashing opening simultaneous compositions simultaneously on some video cards
GraphicsDrivers: DVD Player was hanging sometimes
Installer: Net restore was sometimes failing
OpenCL Compiler: Video encoder performance fix
Parental controls: Pref pane crash fix when selecting a user
Printing: Bluetooth print queue would pause when a print job is held or deleted
Preview: Was failing to load images (eg, jpegs and raws)
X Update: System Preferences was hanging after connecting to Airport network
X Update: on some machines, optical drives were not recognized and the eject key was not ejecting media
X Update: update overwriting /etc/authorization fix
Other general fixes and performance improvements

Fixed in previous seed:

Address Book: Crash in Core Data fix
AppleScript: Coercion of negative integers now returns correct result
AppleScript: Negative number operations fix
AppleScriptObjC: AppleScript apps created in Xcode was failing to quit sometimes
Graphic drivers: glBlitFramebufferEXT() fix
Graphic drivers: Shader Compiler performance fixes
Graphic drivers: glCopyTexSubImage2D() performance improved
Graphic drivers: Multisampling was not working on certain graphics cards
ATS: Certain LWFNs and fonts compatibility fix
ATS: kMDQueryDidFinishNotification() and runloop compatibility fix
ATS: The family identifier now working with CreateFontForScaler()
ColorSync: Localization and ASCII profile description compatibility fix
ColorSync: Inspector and v4 description fixes
ColorSync: Fixed issues with window colors when certain ICC monitor profiles were used
Component Manager: QuickTime components are now immediately registered when installed in /Library/QuickTime
Core Chinese Engine: Input method performance enhanced
Core Animation: CATiledLayer with perspective & translation transformation render fix
Core Audio: MP4AudioFile and file write bug fix
Core Audio: AudioFileOpenURL now opens valid MP3 with or without hint
Core Data: Store migration now works for objects which have been pre-fetched
Core Data: Row cache and data compatibility fix
Core Data: NSPredicate was failing on non-canonicalized strings
Core Data: CFMessagePort occasional failure fix
Core Graphics: CGWindowListCreateImage() was failing when passed CGRectInfinite
Core Graphics: CGImageCreateWithImageInRect() was returning NULL for image with mask
Core Text: Cocoa character kerning now properly works for text strings
File Manager: FSMoveObject() and FSCopyObject() APIs fail if destName parameter contained a forward slash
Garbage Collection: Improved memory usage when adding observers to objects
Help Viewer: HelpViewer sometimes fails to open help after running an AppleScript
ImageKit: Incorrect vertical offset applied to the image scanned with rotated selection
IOHIDFamily: Access to IR Remote HID device fix
Networking: UDP broadcast loopback change
NS Image: NSCustomImageRep() was not displaying dialogs correctly
NS Image: Fixed drawInRect() issue
OpenCL: clEnqueueRead() and assert failure fix
OpenCL: Image creation size fix
OpenCL: cl_event from clEnqueueMarker() contained no profiling info
OpenGL: glPopAttrib() was crashing in certain conditions
OSA: AppleScript droplets fix
QT Kit: userDataOfType in 64-bit mode fix
Speech Recognition: Speech recognition server was incorrectly reading/writing language model objects
Sync Services: Filtering records fix
Xtype: Fonts can now be disabled in the local registry
Xtype: Occasional hang in UnregisterFonts when removing many fonts fix
Other general fixes and performance improvements