Just moments after releasing the second beta of iOS 9.3.2 to developers, Apple has now released a fresh beta of OS X. The latest released version of OS X released to developers is version 10.11.5.
Apple pushed the first tvOS 9.2.1 and OS X 10.11.5 betas two weeks ago, focusing primarily on under-the-hood bug fixes and improvements for developers. These updates are far smaller than the recent tvOS 9.2 and OS X 10.11.4 updates that were released last month. The OS X update added password-protected Notes, Live Photos support, and more.
It appears, however, that the tvOS beta was not updated this week.
As always, let us know in the comments if you notice any changes in the just-released second-beta of OS X 10.11.5. Apple earlier today also released the second beta of iOS 9.3.2 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch developers. All of the latest developer betas can be found on the Developer Center which requires a paid account for full access
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When I login to my developer account, I see only the 10.11.5 beta that was released two weeks ago. Weird.
That’s a weird picture to go with the article OS X and TvOS = MacBooks? It’s not even the newest one since the pink one (rose gold) is absent? :)
Clearly there is some secret embedded in this picture. Perhaps it has something to do with a rumored new AppleTV in the rose gold color scheme.
My 10.11.5 public beta 1 turned a very stable mid-2012 MBP 15 into a machine that runs fine for a day or two, and then descends into beach balling with increasing frequency until I finally have to reboot. I hope the next public beta addresses that.
Did you report it?
Of course.
Oh god I hope they fix the constant freezing of my laptop when using Safari – well documented on the Apple Discussion forum and Mac Rumors forum where even Chrome causes a crash which can only be avoided by disabling hardware acceleration on Flash but it keeps crashing on Safari because the h264 hardware accelerated decoding is setting off a freeze which probably has something to do with something that is low level in the system.
Oh you got it too? I posted my problem here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7530625?start=0&tstart=0 and this guy (who seems like he knows what he is talking about) said it is caused by hardware..
I don’t think it has anything to do with the hardware given that 10.11.3 wasn’t experiencing the problem in my case since the problem only started to occur in 10.11.4. I’d hazard to guess that it relates to the Video Toolbox framework or more correctly a framework that the Video Toolbox framework relies on when it comes to providing a link back to the hardware for hardware accelerated video playback (Preview might link back into it since various parts of the system are now being hardware accelerated). If you disable hardware acceleration on Flash in Chrome then you’ll find that it won’t freeze, if you use Chrome for HTML5 video playback (due to the lack of hardware acceleration) it doesn’t freeze – the problem resides with the hardware acceleration framework that Apple provides. So far there have been two beta’s for 10.11.5 and I’m getting to the stage that if this keeps up by the end of June then I’ll be looking at switching platforms – this is getting beyond a joke at this point to have this level of dissatisfaction on various forums and for Apple to stand around with it’s thumb up it’s butt in a belief if they ignore it that it will all suddenly go away.