Apple has seeded a beta build of the upcoming 10.5.3 update for Leopard to developers. This release outlines 75 distinct bug fixes and includes fixes for memory leaks, stability issues and addresses issues with Dashboard, Parental controls and iCal among others. There are a few outstanding issues recorded with this build.

Update: Netkas states that there is now Radeon 3650 and 34×0 support with this build as well as two new OpenGL engines. Read.

Apple have released updates to Airport and Timemachine allowing Airport Extreme users to make Timemachine backups to their AirDisks. Stability and performance improvements are also reported especially with Time Capsule.

This update breaks hackintoshes due to a new mach_kernel (9.2.2) and system.kext so do not update via Software Update. Updating is fine on vanilla EFI hackintoshes. Other hackintosh users must hold off for now.

Apple has released Security Update 2008-002 for OS X. This incorporates previous security fixes and can be found via Software Update. Reports indicate this is safe for hackintosh users.

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Netkas has been busy recently with Natiti with lots of support Radeon HD users. The following cards are now supported:

• 3870 X2
• 3870
• 3850
• 2600PRO
• 2600XT

The new natit can be found here. (Original Post) 2600PRO and 3850 users will need the white menu fix found in #radeonhd channel on IRC (irc.osx86.hu). The Radeon HD 3870 X2 will function as two cards if you have more than 2 DVI ports, else will appear as one, full package on IRC.

Don’t forget PC-EFI is essential for this.

Netkas has updated the 9.2.0 kernel for OS X 10.5.2 Hackintoshes to fix the shutdown issue experienced by some. The new kernel is for Intel/AMD SSE2/SSE3 users and can be found as usual in the #10.5 irc channel.

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A new kernel built from source for 10.5.2 has been released from netkas. This kernel, 9.2.0 includes speedstep and support for both SSE2 and SSE3 CPUs. If you are using PC_EFI you can also grab a new SMBIOS here which adds more information to System Profiler. If you experience problems with this SMBIOS you can try iGuru’s here.

The kernel can be found in #10.5 on irc.osx86.hu. Link.

Apple have finally seeded the update to Leopard which brings the version and build number up to 10.5.2 (build 9C31). The update weighs in at a hefty 180mb and can be found on Software Update. This update addresses a number of issues and adds features such as the much needed remote disc option for MacBook Airs.

Features include:

– Airport: Improves connection reliability and stability
– Back to my Mac: Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
– Dock: Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
– Desktop: Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
– Desktop: Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
– iSync: Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
– RAW Image: Adds RAW image support for several cameras, as detailed in this article.
– Safari: Addresses issues with Safari reliably resolving certain domains.
– Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences).
– Time Machine: Improves backup reliability when computer name contains slash or non-ASCII characters.
– Time Machine: Addresses issues in which some external drives are not recognized by Time Machine.

As usual PC_EFI and vanilla kernel users may update immediately using the following instructions. Other hackintosh users may need to wait.

UPDATE: Non vanilla users may now use this to temporarily upgrade until a 9.2.0 kernel is patched. Discuss here.

Click Read More for upgrade method.

So I got annoyed with the site being in a half working state due to various bad upgrades, use of RC’s of Joomla 1.5 and my own bad coding of templates. Anyway, all should now be fixed. The site is now running on Joomla 1.5 Stable, I have fixed my template to correctly handle user registrations and other system messages, the downloads section no longer crashes IE (that took me ages to figure out until I realised the youtube videos code was conflicting with docman and causing and “Operation Aborted” error) and should soon be benefitting from additions.

IE6 users should be aware as usual that the site looks best in IE7, Safari or Firefox. I may be looking into an iPhone version sometime.

The comments section has now been fixed and guests may now also add comments. To render user registration relatively obsolete except in the case of registering a username for comments the downloads section is now open to everyone. You may now login with your Gmail account directly in the login form and an account will automatically generate for your email (e.g. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Unfortunately I had to purge all registered users to fix the site so feel free to re-registe.

Thanks, Neonkoala.