Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard Software Update: Fixes many issues

Apple yesterday released the all new Mac OS X 10.5.4 which will fix a few issues with AirPort, Safari, iCal and Spaces & Exposé. AirPort has now been updated and now addresses the reliability issues with 5GHz networks and of course issues that would have possible resulted in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.

What else will you expect to see with this update, well iCal has received updates for example fixing screen issues with the application that includes reliability for meeting requests, syncing with iPhone, cancellation notices and delegation, the update has also fixed an issue that will prevent deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator. iCal now includes a checkbox that addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability, a checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups, it will also resolve a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window, copying and pasting attendees from one event to another. iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences and will address an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.

The performance issues when trying to load secure web pages in Safari has now been resolved, the new update addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages, resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages and resolves with client certificates that reside on a smart card. Moving onto “Spaces and Exposé”, Spaces and Exposé has received a few updates also, an Exposé problem that may result in only a subset of windows being shown has been fixed, the Apple Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard update now addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space, fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space plus resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.

Improvements for L2TP VPN client reliability are also included within the update, you can learn more about the Mac OS X Software Update via Apple’s Website.