Last Wednesday, Apple released their first Lion update for 2012. In addition to various Security Patches, there were enough fixes and enhancements that Apple bumped up the revision level to 10.7.3.
Among the various fixes are a few important ones that address issues I have heard on our support lines:
- Better compatibility with Windows file sharing
- Some early-model iMacs with ATI graphics would sometimes be slow after waking from sleep
- Some laptops would occasionally have issues reconnecting to a wireless network after waking from sleep (I see this one a lot)
There are a lot of security updates that address possible data manipulation due to malicious code as well. This patch includes fixes for QuickTime and X11.
As part of this update, Safari has been updated to the latest version: 5.1.3.
There were additional fixes on the Lion Server side, such as new Server Admin tools (which will come down as a separate download if you have them installed) and various components to iCal, Address Book, and the Apache web server.
The original update made available via Software Updates apparently had some issues, the most notable of which replaced dialog box buttons with “CUI” and a line of question marks. The Combo Update, however, did not have this problem.
Apple has since removed the download from Software Updates, so if you want to download 10.7.3, you need to go to Apple’s site and grab the Combo Update. If you already applied 10.7.3 from Software Update and are having problems, you can install the Combo Update over the existing patch.
See last week’s other updates, etc. here.