Apple wasn’t kidding when it said that the first “Golden Master” of OS X Yosemite was a candidate. The Cupertino-company just issued OS X Yosemite GM 2.0 for developers, and it’s available in Software Update on the Mac App Store. Public Beta 5 is also out for those in the AppleSeed program. The new seed is labeled as build number 14A386a, and it does not appear to include any noticeable changes over the previously provided built. It’s likely, however, that it includes some under-the-hood bug fixes. Earlier today, Apple unleashed a second beta of iOS 8.1.
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Let’s fix Mavericks first people!!!
Yosemite is free and runs on all systems that can run Mavericks, so there’s your update.
Ditto. There is literally no reason not to upgrade from Mavericks. 10.10 is the next update to 10.9. Just pretend it’s your 10.9.6 or whatever the next number is.
been with yosemite since beta 4 and it was already better than mavericks!
Yosemite is the fix….. it is literally the free update.
I am using 10.10 B5 on my hackintosh and it’s freaking amazing.. No need to update or fix Mavericks since it is sub-par to the power and capabilities of Yosemite. Just bite the bullet and upgrade at your earliest chance. You won’t be sorry!
Fix what? Mavericks ran flawlessly on my 2009 MBP, just like Yosemite is now (after several reboots and a reinstall of Parallels). AppleMail will always suck and I’m fine with that. I just wish they’d quit pushing the Continuity jive. I love my Mac, but there isn’t enough Apple Koolaide in the world to make me accept iOS.
Quick update. Let’s hope quality keeps up.
it’s not GM until “candidate” is gone. apple is just calling FC (final candidate) something stupid to confuse people more.
I cannot get the new GM 1 new iWork icons to show up. Im on Yosemite GM2… still no new icons.
That’s because the icons aren’t part of the GM. iWork updates aren’t part of OS updates. They’ll be released later.
There was some display corruption issues when you brought up Mission Control that I hope they finally fixed.
Crossing my fingers for you, but that’s the place I first noticed issues when my graphic card started dying.
I’ve also noticed some issues while playing Unity based games (like hearthstone) that cause the program to crash. Fingers crossed that it’s fixed ^_^
Before this update the login window always showed a blurred version of the default Yosemite desktop wallpaper regardless of what your actual wallpaper was set to. After the update it seems that the login screen shows whichever wallpaper is your first virtual desktop.
It has always been the actual (though blurred) desktop wallpaper on my computer.
All versions have shown what ever wallpaper I was using the last time I was logged in.
After this update i can’t log in. After start I enter filevault(?) password and then os x loading and stop with slashed circle. What can I do?
The circle with the slash means that your Mac can’t find a bootable volume. Reinstalling OS X over the current install may fix this. I hope you backed up.
When you click in the address bar nested bookmarks from your bookmarks bar are shown as iOS-like square folders with 9 favicons shown at a time within.
Same thing visible if you click on the Top Sites grid icon and then go to the favorites tab.
This isn’t new?
Did they #QA it? Apples QA team on leave, I’m told. (Pun)
These comments are horrible.
I cannot explain how happy I am that they didn’t leave the white dock in this version of the beta. Thank jeebus
when you got this one, does anyone know if you can update to the final release without clean install?
Last I heard there was no upgrade path from the preview.
I don’t think there’s a path from the Dev Preview, but you can just install the new version on top of the Public Beta if you have that, just like you would from Mavericks.
I haven’t heard anything specific (I have GM 2 installed right now), but it seems odd to me that Apple would not enable both Dev Preview (let’s say “a” users based on build numbering) and Public Beta (or “b” users) Macs to get the same delta update to the released (or soon to be released, perhaps, as they’d do well to let us use it for at least a few days prior to unleashing it to the public, just in case severe issues come up) version of Yosemite. Such an update would be evident to us all ahead of public release because the version that will be shipped publicly, and we ought to see as a simple update, won’t have the letters at the end of the build number. Even if we aren’t able to simply/even automatically update to the released version using the Software Update functionality, there’s nothing that would stop us from downloading and installing the final OS X 10.10.0 release like any other system upgrade, it would just be over an earlier Yosemite release rather than over Mavericks. Nowhere other than this thread, including in Apple’s own developer forums, have I heard anyone even hint that the previews can’t be upgraded out to the released version. So I assume we’ll get normal updates into that version sometime next week or the week after. If not, I doubt anything would go wrong with the full installer for us, but we should back up our systems anyway ahead of that.
It’s build 14A386b instead of 14A386a on my MBP Retina btw, any reason for this?
Got it. The 14A386b is the public beta, 14A386a is the developer one.
Can’t connect to the Software Update server (swscan.apple.com). please help while try to check for the beta 5 update
Is it just me or do phone calls using iPhone not work in this version?
Anyone had issues with scrolling on the trackpad in Safari? Every time I swipe backward while in Safari I lose all directional scrolling ability until I restart the app. I’m currently using the “GM2” version of Yosemite.