New Leopard seed Apple has seeded build 9A283 of the forthcoming OS upgrade "Leopard", Mac OS X 10.5. The new build can only be installed cleanly - updating from the WWDC build is not supported. There are also some issues regarding installation on lower-end PPC Macs that will be solved in future builds. Several changes include iCal, Spotlight, Time Machine and iChat - although we expect to see various smaller fixes and changes when looking at the build for the coming days and weeks. Apple has previously only seeded one (the WWDC) build with a small update through Software Update to test that facility - they always do that once at some point early in development - but expectations are that seed-cycles will shorten towards the end of the year. Leopard is expected to be released in March 2007, when most of Vista's market blow will be over already. (And customers have headaches and feel hung over.) ;) - posted by Patrick Armbruster @ 12:10 [article link]