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Late Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 Apple releases updates to AirPort base Station Firmware and Final Cut Pro.
Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.4.2
The Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Express Base Station with 802.11n* Firmware 7.4.2 update provides several fixes.
“Back to My Mac” is finally working with the Time Capsule.
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This update fixes problems with real-time playback in Final Cut Pro with Mac Pro (Early 2009) models and Xserve (Early 2009) models.
Apple to day releases MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 to address the SATA transfer speed issue. As previoulsy reported by many, the new generation of 13-inch and 15-inch Unibody MacBook Pros support 1.5Gbps SATA interface instead of 3Gbps as present in the previous Unibody 13-inch MacBook and 15-inch MacBook Pro. (Mac Rumors article)
According to Apple:
About MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 | 3.35MB
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported.
(June 22, 2009)
What does this mean?
Are the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro natively supporting 3.0Gbps SATA interface?
It seems that the MacBook Pros are capable, but Apple does not officially support it.
Some apps are not compatible yet with Snow Leopard.
According to a colleague, GarageBand ’09 often crashes when changing project tempo. While there is no known fix yet, we’re expecting Apple to release update to GarageBand, hopefully soon.
More from Apple Discussion Board.
With the official release of iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has added ratings to iPhone Apps.
For example, search for “nin: access” in the iTunes App Store. It will show the ratings for the apps if available.
Many has speculated that Apple would ease the App-submission process once the rating system is well implemented.
The good folks at WordPress.org has uploaded the iPhone OS 3.0 compatible WordPress App.
It will be available soon on iTunes App Store.
I have been running the beta version of WordPress App for more than a week and it has been great.
It is long overdue and Apple finally fixes the long outstanding Java security holes reported back in August and December 2008 (Ars Technica article).
The Java update is available for Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard. Apparently Apple has included the fixes in the Developer Preview version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Released on June 15th, 2009:
Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 | 80.11MB
Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 9 delivers improved reliability, security and compatibility for J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and later.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3593
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3633Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 | 158MB
Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4 delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3581
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3632
Java for Mac OS X updates are also available through Apple Software Update.