Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.8 update

By on Jun 23, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Software June 23, 2011

Apple on Thursday released the latest public build of its Mac OS X operating system, version 10.6.8. Release notes are as follows:

The 10.6.8 update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

- Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion
- Resolve an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit
- Improve support for IPv6
- Improve VPN reliability
- Identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4561.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

The new Snow Leopard build is available for all modern Apple PCs, and the highlight is clearly the first bullet item listed above: “Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion.” Apple is expected to release OS X Lion next month.

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  • Anonymous

    I’m still on Leopard, Snow Leopard is just too expensive. $29… yikes…

    • http://www.searingarrow.com AlienSix

      /s?

    • Gargoil

      Definitely. Also, meth tastes better when mixed with cinnamon.

    • Matthew

      surprised you even have an apple product because they are more expensive than most computers,microsoft charges way more than apple to update their os.

  • Anonymous

    The links to Apple support articles are broken.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks BGR. If it wasn’t for you posting about this X.X.1 update, I don’t know where I would be right now. I mean, now I can go to my MacBook and immediately get this update installed so I can enjoy all those sweet, tantalizing features instead of just having it pop up a few hours from now and updating it without truly understand these benefits. I mean, if it wasn’t your article about a X.X.1 update, I would have just blindly updated without know that I would have access to improved VPN functionality. God, thank you BGR!

    • http://twitter.com/MJSheed Sheed

      You’re not funny. At all. Plus, it took you longer to write this stupid comment than it took for Zach to write the article. What does that make you?

      • Anonymous

        I would assume that makes me the same as you.

      • http://twitter.com/adamjayreid Adam Reid

        ….waiting forthcoming “rubber & glue” argument

      • Anonymous

        Actually, he copied and pasted this form Engadget, or vice versa. 

    • Anonymous

      dude, you’re a douche

  • Anonymous

    The one thing this does point out that it’s yet another ‘Service Pack’ release for 10.6.  Apple is making incremental fixes and upgrades to it’s OSes, all along… Not quite Linux nightly builds, but definitely better than Windows Service pack releases.

    I’m seeing a few people complaining about semi-bricking some computers with this release… I’m wondering like the WP7 pre-Mango release, if this release was rushed to get it out so it is deployed properly in front of the Lion release.

    But all in all, this is a non-news item…

  • Anonymous

    Dear BGR, now you should start also reporting on Windows Updates. Those actually in most cases bring more goodies than this one. In case you did not know, most people in this World do use Windows.

  • Sky1193

    Just updated :) Don’t notice much difference with the app store. Hopefully Lion come out early July. 

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