On with the information about the update:
OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users.
It includes fixes for:
- AFP, SMB/CIFS, NFS and FTP network file services
- AirPort and Bluetooth wireless access
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, and RAW camera support
- disc recording when creating and burning media
- .Mac sync services
- Spotlight indexing and searching
- Dashboard widgets: Dictionary, Flight Tracker, Stickies, and Unit Converter
- Address Book, AppleScript, Automator, Dictionary, Font Book, iCal, iSync, Mail, and Safari applications
- Disk Utility, Keychain Access, Migration Assistant, and Software Update
- compatibility with third party applications and devices
- previous standalone security updates
That looks familiar. Oh, right. However, now we’ve got some even more specific specifics:
Finder & Spotlight: ‘Improves responsiveness during Spotlight searches in the Finder, Items copied into a Drop Box have permissions set correctly, the Spotlight image indexer now uses the ‘Software’ TIFF property to support graphics rendering and image editing applications that use this property.’
Safari, Internet, and networking: ‘Safari can now pass the ‘Acid2’ test, Improves compatibility of Safari with many webcams (zuh?); Improves compatibility for OpenGL-accelerated Macromedia Shockwave 3D webpage content when using Safari, Addresses some issues in which the Finder might not be able to connect to an SMB volume’
Syncing: ‘Allows your Address Book contacts that are organized in subgroups to be synced to an iPod using iTunes.’
Mail: ‘In the Fonts & Colors preferences in Mail, you can now customize the font used in the list of Mailbox names, Smart Groups of addresses can now be dragged from Address Book to a message’s To, Cc, or Bcc field, The number of messages in a Smart Mailbox are now displayed in the title bar, Reduces the amount of blank lines Mail might insert into a message when forwarding or replying to it, Addresses an issue in which some Mail rules could be lost or duplicated after a .Mac sync, Searches of ‘All Mailboxes’ can now, optionally, include items from Junk and Trash.’
iChat: ‘iChat preferences now allow you to display emoticons (such as a smiley face) as text (such as ’ 😊 ‘) instead of as a graphic, .Mac members can enable encrypted chat sessions after installing this update, Further addresses potential causes of persistent ‘insufficient bandwidth’ alerts.’
Other Apps: ‘Many improvements for Calculator are included, such as: A black triangle icon no longer appears below ‘Infinity.’ Calculator now filters out unusable characters when pasting from the Clipboard, certain ‘rounding error’ issues are addressed, and other issues, Keychain Access searching is no longer case-sensitive after installing this update, X11 windows no longer stay in the background after selecting the X11 application from the Dock or with Application Switcher.’
Other: ‘Addresses an issue in which some Traditional Chinese input methods, such as Pinyin, limit the number of candidate characters presented in the candidate window, Resolves an issue for Palm Desktop software in which the Command-Q keyboard shortcut would sometimes not quit the application unless it was pressed a second time, Improves compatibility with Microsoft IntelliPoint mouse modifier clicking; that is, mouse buttons configured to act as a Control-click or Command-click, for example, Improves window scrolling when dragging an item into a window that’s viewed as a list, where not all of the list is visible, Improves compatibility with Microsoft Word and Excel 2004, addressing an issue in which the application could stop responding for several seconds, Addresses performance issues affecting three AppleScript commands: do shell script, system info, and delay, the Core Data framework has been updated to improve relationship management issues, resolve issues with data migration, improve Undo and Redo commands, and improve insertion performance, resolves a potential redraw issue in which an application window’s scroll bars could appear in the wrong place, Allows Apple Wireless Keyboards to work in single-user mode, MS-DOS-formatted volumes, including the iPod Shuffle, perform better and consistently mount (become available) in the Finder, Disables Quartz 2D Extreme—Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.’
