Apple have released the latest update for Leopard in the form of OS X 10.5.4. This update adresses security issues aswell as issues with iCal, Safari, Spaces and adds support for additional RAW image formats. The most important feature of this update however is support for Apple’s upcoming transition from the .Mac service to the new MobileMe aimed at the iPhone 2.0 update.

In other news JaS’s upcoming 10.5.3 Leopard DVD for Intel SSE2/3 is now being beta tested internally.

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Chameleon is a new Open-Source EFI bootloader project for BIOS-based x86 systems. It is designed to replace Darwin and PC_EFI bootloaders with new features, GRUB compatibility and open source code for anyone to enhance. If you want to try out the new Chameleon bootloader head on over to http://chameleon.osx86.hu/. The latest version is 1.0.10 and can be downloaded here.
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Apple have released the update 10.5.3 for OS X Leopard systems. This update (build 9D34) includes many fixes and features including; additional RAW image support, addressing an issue with audio/video stuttering with certain USB devices, improved WiFi functionality with Time Capsule and several fixes for Time Machine/Time Capsule. Also the latest iPhone SDK requires this update for those of you using it.

As with all hackint0shes, be careful when updating. Vanialla systems work fine. A patched SSE3 kernel is available for Intel systems, update guide from Netkas here. SSE2 and AMD users need to wait for an available patched kernel to made.

Also JaS is working on his new DVD release which will incorporate the 10.5.3 update for Intel machines. Progress is going well and you can expect a release soon.

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Team of Hackint0sh (ToH) have released the source code for patching the OS X xnu kernel source in order to allow developers to better develop SSE2 and sleep/wake patches. They have done so in order to encourage AMD64, speedstep and sleep support. The code is missing the infamous key from Apple to decrypt encrypted applications and must be added manually with removal of the #error line after it. This key can easily be found over the internet.

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