Apple heeft zojuist een update vrijgegeven voor Mac OS X waarmee het versienummer verhoogd wordt naar 10.3.8. De belangrijkste veranderingen die doorgevoerd worden na installatie zijn, naast de security updates, onder meer een betere OpenGL-ondersteuning van ATi- en nVidia-videokaarten en verbeterde file sharing en sirectory services. MacOS X 10.3.8 kan gedownload worden als patch voor 10.3.7- of 10.3.x-systemen. Hieronder is een beknopt changelog geplaatst van deze release:
Mac OS X 10.3.8 Enhancements
- Addresses an issue with Mac OS X 10.3.7 in which iChat, Mail, or other network-based applications could take a long time to open.
- Addresses an issue in which a computer wouldn't always restart automatically after a power failure, even when the Energy Saver preference option "Restart automatically after a power failure" was selected.
- Improves the performance of Blizzard World of Warcraft's "Full Screen Glow" video feature.
- Improves DVD Player compatibility when playing a movie (using certain ATI Radeon cards) to an external widescreen TV with a 16 : 9 aspect ratio.
- Resolves an issue in which a "flicker" could be seen when navigating DVD menus in DVD Player on certain PowerBook G4 computers.
- Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
- Addresses "jumping cursor" issues that might occur when using your portable computer's trackpad with your thumb, side of thumb, or a "flat" finger.
- Resolves an issue on certain Power Mac G5 computers where a fan cycles erratically at unexpected times, such as when Seti@home software is running.
- Speeds up Address Book and Mail LDAP lookups that are performed by a Cisco DistributedDirector DNS server.
- Addresses an issue that could prevent clients using the Active Directory plugin from binding to their Active Directory server.