Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5, Seeds New OS X 10.8.5 Build
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Posted August 7, 2013 at 8:24pm by iClarified
Apple has just pushed out developer preview 5 for OS X Mavericks, just two weeks after releasing the fourth developers preview. The update is recommended for all users running OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 4.
In addition to Mavericks Preview 5, a new OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Build has been seeded to developers with build number 12F33.
There is also a new Safari 6.1 beta 5 available for Mountain Lion.
The updates are available via Software Update for Mac for developers.
No word yet on any changes. If you find anything please let us know in the comments or email us!
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Current problem with mavericks: "flagged" box in email is empty, but shows that there are 4 messages in flagged box. Nothing gets rid of it. #problemswithmavericks #applemail
My thing is, without an option to remove iCloud files from caching locally, won't we run into the storage problems that attribute to the reason we buy cloud storage anyway? I pay for all of this cloud storage and everything is on my tiny hard drive.
Introduction
OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 is pre-release software. Do not use this pre-
release software in a commercial operating environment or with important data. You
should back up all of your data before installing this software and regularly back up data
while using the software.
If an installation of OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 fails, try using Disk Utility from
a Recovery HD to repair the disk.
Developer Preview System Requirements
The OS X Mavericks Developer Preview supports the following Macs:
• iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-
inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)
Notes and Known Issues
iBooks
OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 includes a preview of iBooks for Mac. When you
sign in with your iTunes account you will be able to access your existing iBooks library
as well as the iBooks Store.
What should I try:
⁃
Verify your book library from iTunes 11.1 Beta moved to iBooks. Books are
moved when you open iBooks for the first time.
⁃
Open and read a variety of books, including your favorite novels, picture books,
and multi-touch books.
⁃
Add bookmarks, highlights, and notes, and verify that they sync to iBooks on iOS
and other Macs. Note that you must have the Sync Bookmarks preference
enabled.
⁃
Sync books to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch using iTunes.
⁃
Download books and samples from the iBooks Store in iBooks.
⁃
Download books from the iBooks Store in iTunes and verify that they appear in
iBooks.
Known Issues:
⁃
If iBooks is not open and signed into the iBooks Store when a book is purchased
in iTunes, the purchased book will not download in iBooks.
⁃
Some books with interactive elements may not respond as expected in the Mac
in OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5.
⁃
Purchased books that are stored in iCloud may not show up in your book library
after signing in. Running the following commands in Terminal and relaunching
iBooks will resolve this.
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.bookstoreagent/
ProductionBag
killall -9 bookstoreagent
iPhoto
OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 includes a pre-release version of iPhoto for the
purpose of testing compatibility with Mavericks.
⁃
Opening your Photo Library with this pre-release version of iPhoto will
permanently upgrade it and make it incompatible with current versions of iPhoto
and Aperture.
⁃
This pre-release version of iPhoto will only upgrade libraries from iPhoto version
8.x and later.
⁃
Photos with GPS locations will be marked with pins on the map in Places.
However, searching for locations using the Places map may return only partial
results, or may not display any results.
⁃
The Help system is not fully enabled. Searches using the Help Center will return
limited results.
⁃
Localization is not yet complete, so some text may not be displayed correctly in
certain languages.
⁃
Photo Stream updates will not be registered to your Mac after installing OS X
Developer Preview 5. To enable Photo Stream you can either restart your Mac or
launch iPhoto with the library connected to the Photo Stream.
⁃
Make sure all photos that appear in My Photo Stream have been imported into
your iPhoto Library before using this pre-release version of iPhoto.
⁃
Attempting to use My Photo Stream or iCloud Photo Sharing with an earlier
version of iPhoto or Aperture after using these features with this pre-release
software may cause some streamed photos or data to be displayed incorrectly.
Disabling and re-enabling Photo Stream on your Mac will resolve the issue.
Installation
⁃
It may be necessary to refresh the App Store Purchases page before Developer
Preview 4 will appear in the list of purchases.
⁃
Network migration from earlier versions of OS X requires the Migration Update
for Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion, available from the Mac Dev Center.
⁃
Migration from Windows is not supported in Developer Preview 5.
iCloud and iCloud Keychain
⁃
When enabling iCloud Keychain, a blank sheet may appear. Force Quit System
Preferences and retry.
⁃
Customers using iCloud Keychain with recovery may see a dialog indicating
recovery has been disabled due to a server change. This is intentional. To re-
enable functionality follow the instructions in the notification.
Third-Party Applications
⁃
Adobe After Effects CS6 will not function correctly.
Other
⁃
Screen recordings taken with Developer Preview 5 are not compatible with
earlier releases of OS X.
⁃
Aperture may exit unexpectedly when exporting an image while in full screen.
⁃
Moving a full-screen Aperture window to a secondary display may prevent the
app window from being visible in subsequent attempts to use full screen.
⁃
Fusion Drive volumes created with Developer Preview 4 are not compatible with
OS X v10.8.4 or earlier.
⁃
If using VoiceOver, network settings may not be accessible in Recovery Mode.
⁃
Contacts may be shown multiple times in the previous recipients window of mail.
To resolve you can run the following command in Terminal:
rm ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.corerecents.recentsd/
Data/Library/Recents/*; killall -9 recentsd
⁃
AirPort Utility may exit unexpectedly.
⁃
On first reboot after installing Developer Preview 5, Wi-Fi may not automatically
connect to known networks on MacBook Air (Mid 2013). Turning Wi-Fi off and
then back on again should resolve the issue.
⁃
Applications may stop responding to scroll events, particularly while using the
accessibility zoom feature. If you experience this problem, restarting OS X should
resolve the issue.
⁃
Starting in Developer Preview 4, non-admin users will be allowed to install and
update software from the Mac App Store. This functionality can be disabled with
a profile that sets the “restrict-store-require-admin-to-install” key to true (boolean)
in the com.apple.appstore domain.
Bug Reporting
This build is being provided to you for testing and development purposes. Should you
encounter any problems, submit a bug report using the online Bug Reporter at
http://
bugreporter.apple.com/
. Please make sure to include “10.9 (13A538g)” in the bug title
and description. This information will ensure that your bug is processed quickly.
When submitting a bug report, make sure to include a Summary, Steps to Reproduce,
Expected Results, Actual Results, and the diagnostic output generated by running
sudo
sysdiagnose
in Terminal, or use the special key chord Control-Option-Command-Shift-
Period.
For complete instructions on submitting bug reports, visit the Bug Reporting page at
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/
.
Thank you for your support.
Worldwide Developer Relations
Apple Inc.
Auto-Submission of Diagnostic and Usage Data
By default, OS X Mavericks Developer Preview builds automatically send anonymous
diagnostic and usage data back to Apple. This includes information about crashes,
freezes, kernel panics, and information about how you use Apple and third-party
software, hardware, and services. This information is used to help Apple improve the
quality and performance of its products and services. If necessary, this setting can be
disabled in the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy preferences pane. The preference
is cleared in this seed. This will allow the collection of anonymous diagnostic and usage
data to help deliver a high quality release for our customers. If necessary, this setting
can be disabled in the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy preferences pane.
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