10.5.7 imminent -- start your upgrade engines
 

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles..._7_update.html

Apple this week is believed to have tapped its vast developer community to begin testing Mac OS X 10.5.7, a sizable maintenance and security update to the company's Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements.

Those people familiar with the matter say the update, like those that came before it, will bundle a plethora of bug fixes spanning a wide range of system components and services. In its current pre-release form, the software reportedly boasts nearly six dozen code corrections and weighs a hefty 440 megabytes in barebones form.

In particular, Apple is said to be focusing on syncing issues that have plagued many of Leopard's standard, forward-facing apps, such as as Mail, AddressBook, and system preferences. A problem with Safari not accepting certain types of cookies will also reportedly be addressed.

Among the nearly two dozen other components receiving attention in beta of Mac OS X 10.5.7 are graphics drivers, Time Machine, printing services, screen sharing services, MobileMe syncing, AirPort services, text services, and iCal, those familiar with the software claim.

Mac OS X 10.5.7 will represent the seventh incremental update to Leopard since the software hit the market in late October of 2007. It's expected to be released sometime in the coming months.

Here's something more...

Here are some more detailed infos about the 10.5.7 update. It seems that there's a built of the update already which solves the Safari 4 problem.

I tend not to look forward to these, because of their tenacity for hosing my install at least once before I get it right. :p
Oh well. :D

Yeah... I'm also looking forward to this upgrade...
I'll have lots of work though in adapting the new drivers and the kernel (a task we do with pleasure...)