OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Apple veröffentlicht dritte Entwicklerversion

Nach rund einem Monat hat Apple heute die dritte Vorschau von OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion veröffentlicht.

Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Die Weiterentwicklung von Apples kommendem Desktop-Betriebssystem Mountain Lion geht stetig weiter. Fast im Monatrhythmus veröffentlicht der Hersteller neue Versionen für die zahlenden Entwickler.

Apple nennt unter anderem folgende Details in den Release Notes der neuen Version von OS X 10.8:

Known Issues

On systems with FileVault enabled, canceling the restart to the Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 Installer may leave your system unable to present a password dialog at boot time. You can repair the problem by holding down command-R to boot to the Recovery OS and then using Disk Utility to unlock and Repair your volume.

Installing OS X 10.8 over 10.7.2 or earlier with FileVault turned on may fail

Pre-Lion FileVault user accounts are not supported in this Developer Preview

Some Apple menu items such as Restart may not work when a sandboxed app is in the foreground

iTunes no longer syncs Notes

Mail's photo browser cannot access the iPhoto library

Back to My Mac doesn't work for the first 5 minutes after rebooting

DVD Player may not launch after inserting a DVD on some systems

Most help topics are unavailable in this Developer Preview

In the Recovery HD:

- Some icons may be missing - Network Utility's Lookup pane does not work - Time Machine restoration via a AFP share does not work - Restoring from a Time Machine backup via AFP does not work

Migration from a Time Machine backup that excludes paths such as /System may yield an unusable system

Brightness settings may change unexpectedly after reboot

Display brightness may be dim after sleep or reboot

If Mail is hidden at logout time, it may not be correctly relaunched during a subsequent login but will appear to be running

Java applets may not work in Safari

QuickTime screen recordings may produce corrupted videos or cause an exception when run on machines with NVDIA graphics

Darüberhinaus nennt Apple noch einige Details zum Game Center, die speziell für Entwickler interessant sind. So ist etwa der gemeinsame Spielspaß zwischen iOS und OS X derzeit noch nicht aktiv.

Die neue Build ist Version 12A178q, der Vorgänger war 12A154q. Der Download über den Mac App Store ist rund 3,73 GB groß. OS X Mountain Lion soll nach aktueller Planung im Spätsommer erscheinen.