Apple sends OS X Yosemite Public Beta 3 out to testers

Good news for the brave OS X Yosemite beta testers out there: Apple has just released Public Beta 3, a new build that makes various tweaks and additions while fixing bugs and improving stability. Apple has declined to provide specific release notes for the update, but at first blush it doesn't seem to change as much as Public Beta 2 did last month.

Apple continues to push new Yosemite betas to its public testers at the rate of about one per month—that's one public beta build for every two developer beta builds. Today's public beta was released alongside Developer Preview 8, and both should include most of the same fixes and improvements (plus the new stuff that came with Developer Preview 7).

In addition to the new design and features in Yosemite, users of the public beta will be able to take advantage of iOS 8's new Continuity features when the operating system is released to the public this Wednesday. The biggest one of those features is Handoff, which can pass data between the mobile and desktop versions of the same application. You can also use your iPhone to make and receive calls from your Mac.

Yosemite beta testers will be able to update their systems directly from these beta builds to the finished "Golden Master" build of Yosemite when it's released later this fall.