10.5.6 is here

[Satcomer]

Well on Monday December 15th Apple releases the 10.5.6 update. Here are the 10.5.6 Release Notes.

Lastly here is the 10.5.6 combo update. IMHO if you did a Standard Leopard upgrade originally you should use the "Combo" update. The main difference is the combo "replaces" files bring any 10.5.1 (or better) machine straight to 10.5.6. The Software Update (called the Delta update) and it only 'updates files" 9taking from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6. Traditionally applying the "Combo" update releved a lot of OS X troubles when updating.

The update is HUGE (over 370MB) and will restart you Mac twice, so be patient!!

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Apple's 10.5.6 Combo updater page states that OS X 10.5.1 is required:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...mboupdate.html

Don't know if that's a typo, or if 10.5.0 users must first update to 10.5.1 before applying the 10.5.6 combo update. Typically, I keep the latest combo updaters around for new installs of Mac OS X -- I can quickly bring a system up-to-speed in terms of updates by applying the combo updaters immediately after installing OS X clean.

[Rhisiart]

Originally Posted by Satcomer

applying the "Combo" update releved a lot of OS X troubles when updating.

I have 10.5.5. Would I be better off downloading the combo or will the Delta update suffice?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

I used the combo to go from 10.5.5 to 10.5.6, but then again, I always do.

I think either way is safe.

[fryke]

The combo updater is _always_ the safer way to update. Also, it allows you to update other machines without having to download the updater again and again. I haven't heard of many problems with direct SU system updates recently, though. (But maybe that's because people have heard the call to use the combo updaters instead?)

[ElDiabloConCaca]

If you want to read nay-sayers reports and problems a-plenty, versiontracker is always a good place:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29147

Heh... but then again, versiontracker seems like a soapbox for panicky, jump-the-gun, doomsday reports.

[Satcomer]

It seems to me most of the problems updating are Users that had some kind of third party plugin not working. When will Users ever learn is beyond me.

[Doctor X]

I always find it funny when half the posters proclaim the fix the "bestest" thing ever while the other half claims it cause their Mac to explode.

So . . . should you repair permissions before the update?

I did not do that.







*Slowly steps away from computer*

--J.D.