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From: Weston C on 12 Feb 2010 23:00
Is there any indication Apple's considering maintenance updates for
Leopard? Any sign of one coming down the pipes in the near future?


From: Steven Fisher on 13 Feb 2010 00:30
On 2010-02-12 20:00:18 -0800, Weston C said:

> Is there any indication Apple's considering maintenance updates for
> Leopard? Any sign of one coming down the pipes in the near future?

I imagine it'll get security updates, but 10.6 was Apple's big fix for
what ailed 10.5.8. :)

From: David Empson on 14 Feb 2010 07:16
Weston C <notsew-reversePreceedingAndRemoveThis(a)canncentral.org> wrote:

> Is there any indication Apple's considering maintenance updates for
> Leopard? Any sign of one coming down the pipes in the near future?

No.

Since the introduction of Mac OS X, I can only think of one occasion
where there was a numbered minor update after the release of the next
major version, and that was 10.4.11 (which came out about two weeks
after 10.5, but before 10.5.1).

For every other major version, the final numbered update came out before
the release of the next major version.

Apple probably intended to release 10.4.11 before 10.5, but may have ran
into last minute bugs which delayed it.

You should expect security updates for 10.5.8 as long as 10.6 is the
current major version, generally in sync with security updates or minor
version updates of 10.6, but there may be occasional extra ones.

There may also be separate updates of minor components of 10.5.8. For
example, 10.4.11 got a "DVD/CD Sharing and Migration Update" and several
Java updates.

Safari, iTunes and QuickTime are on separate update cycles and
Leopard-compatibile versions may be updated for a while after the
release of 10.7.

For comparison:

Tiger (10.4) stopped getting security updates before 10.6.2 was
released, but is still getting Safari and iTunes updates. (Probably also
QuickTime, if any were needed.) Java updates stopped about four months
before the last security update.

Panther (10.3) stopped security updates before 10.5.1 was released, and
got iTunes and QuickTime updates for about a further seven months.
(Safari for 10.3 finished much earlier, but isn't a useful point of
comparison as it wasn't as important back in 2006/2007.) Java updates
stopped about nine months before the last security update.


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David Empson
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