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Apple releases OS X 10.10.3 (with new Photos app)


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The combo update doesn't appear to be available yet, but you can download 10.10.3 via Software Update.

 

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204490

 

The OS X Yosemite v10.10.3 update includes the new Photos app and improves the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

 

With Photos you can:

 

  • Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views
  • Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs
  • Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution
  • Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com with your web browser
  • Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls
  • Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats
  • Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes

It’s easy to upgrade your iPhoto library to Photos - just open the app to get started. To learn more about Photos, visit: https://www.apple.com/osx/photos/

 

This update also includes the following improvements:

 

  • Adds over 300 new Emoji characters
  • Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look Up
  • Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing
  • Improves stability and security in Safari
  • Improves Wi-Fi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios
  • Improves compatibility with captive Wi-Fi network environments
  • Fixes an issue that might cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
  • Improves screen sharing reliability

Enterprise content

For enterprise customers, this update includes the following:

 

  • Addresses an issue that could cause Macs bound to an Active Directory server to become unresponsive at startup
  • Provides the ability to set a umask that's respected by GUI apps
  • Fixes an issue installing a configuration profile for 802.1x with EAP-TLS
  • Resolves an issue where folders from a DFS share point might "disappear" when viewed from the Finder on some Macs

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I don't normally post but seeing 'Addresses an issue that could cause Macs bound to an Active Directory server to become unresponsive at startup' listed above just about made my day!! Been building new Yosemite images for a suite of Macs and this problem has been the bane of my life trying to fix! :p
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10.10.3 also fixes the following vulnerability where a standard user could gain root privileges. :eek:

 

Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X

 

The Admin framework in Apple OS X contains a hidden backdoor API to root privileges. It’s been there for several years (at least since 2011), I found it in October 2014 and it can be exploited to escalate privileges to root from any user account in the system.

 

The intention was probably to serve the “System Preferences” app and systemsetup (command-line tool), but any user process can use the same functionality.

 

Apple has now released OS X 10.10.3 where the issue is resolved. OS X 10.9.x and older remain vulnerable, since Apple decided not to patch these versions. We recommend that all users upgrade to 10.10.3.

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10.10.4 is out. Apparently this update includes an app called 'trimforce' that enables TRIM on non-Apple SSDs.

 

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204928

 

The OS X Yosemite v10.10.4 update improves the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. This update:

 

  • Improves networking reliability
  • Improves Migration Assistant reliability
  • Addresses an issue that prevented some external displays from functioning properly
  • Improves the reliability of upgrading iPhoto and Aperture libraries to Photos
  • Improves reliability when syncing photos and videos to iCloud Photo Library
  • Addresses an issue that could cause Photos to unexpectedly quit after importing some Leica DNG files
  • Resolves an issue that could delay outgoing email messages in Mail
  • Fixes an issue where a website could prevent the user from navigating away by presenting repeated JavaScript alerts in Safari

Enterprise content

For enterprise customers, this update:

 

  • Addresses an issue where OS X systems bound to directory services could stop responding under certain conditions
  • Adds the ability to create mobile accounts with the createmobileaccount tool
  • Fixes an issue in Profile Manager that could allow a user to install pre-release software even when the setting is disabled

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Cheers. Just finishing a new Yosemite image on a SSD upgraded suite of iMacs - this should be welcome. Saves updating them one by one now too. Might just wait for the dust to settle first.
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I'm hoping that the 'Networking reliability improvements' listed in 10.10.4 will fix the issue I'm having with radius connections and resuming from sleep.

You would have thought so now that Apple has killed Discoveryd and gone back to using mDNSresponder.

 

Apple Releases OS X 10.10.4 With 'Discoveryd' Process Removal

 

Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.4, an under-the-hood update that introduces several bug fixes and performance improvements. Most notably, 10.10.4 includes the removal of the problematic Discoveryd process, which has caused multiple networking issues for some users in OS X Yosemite.

 

The biggest change in OS X 10.10.4 is the elimination of the discoveryd process that's been accused of being responsible for some significant networking and WiFi bugs within Yosemite. Discoveryd is a networking process that was introduced in Yosemite to replace mDNSresponder, but it caused problems like slow wake from sleep, failures to resolve DNS names, duplicate machine names, WiFi disconnects, excessive CPU usage, battery drain, and more. In 10.10.4, discoveryd has been replaced with the older mDNSresponder process.

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