This software has been replaced by a later update. Because later updates include previous enhancements, the following information is still provided for reference. To find current software, see technical document 106713, "Mac OS X 10.1: Chart of Available Software Updates".
Enhancements delivered with Mac OS X 10.1.2
In addition to enhancements previously delivered with Mac OS X 10.1.1 (listed below), the Mac OS X 10.1.2 update includes the following:
Networking and Internet Connectivity Enhancements
- Internet Access can dial longer phone numbers.
- The Apple Internal 56K Modem (v.90) script works better with certain earlier Apple internal modems.
- Certain internal modems will now ignore the dial tone when expected.
- Addresses a potential issue in which the computer's IP address may not be updated as expected after changing networks during sleep.
- Windows NT volumes now appear on the desktop more reliably.
- Improves function when multiple IP addresses are assigned to a single Ethernet port.
- Addresses potential situations in which a DHCP address may not be retained after sleep.
- Improves peer-to-peer IrDA networking and includes many additional IrDA networking enhancements.
- A later version of Apache (1.3.22) is included.
- Offers several other DHCP enhancements.
- Includes numerous additional Ethernet networking enhancements.
- Offers wireless IrDA functionality for additional systems, including original PowerBook G4 (Titanium) and PowerBook G3 (FireWire) computers.
Mail Application Enhancements
- Mail mailboxes now function as expected when the mailbox name includes a solidus (slash, "/") character.
- An issue in which the Mail application may unexpectedly change the selected mail message while opening an IMAP mailbox has been addressed.
- HTML mail message headers are now displayed more consistently.
- Enables Mail support for CRAM-MD5 (non-cleartext) authentication.
- Includes other Mail enhancements.
Classic Environment Enhancements
- Classic environment applications now remain synchronized with the system clock when in the foreground (after the computer is put to sleep).
- A potential situation in which an inaccurate message may appear when stopping the Classic environment in the Classic preference pane, has been addressed.
- Resolves a potential kernel panic situation when connecting to a sharepoint in the Classic environment.
- Enhances reliability of certain USB devices in the Classic environment.
Printing, Image Capture, and Peripheral Device Compatibility Enhancements
- Improves Print Center auto-discovery of Epson printers.
- Resolves a potential alert message when deleting images from a type 3 or 4 digital camera.
- Enhances function of certain removable media devices after waking from sleep.
- PC cards (PCMCIA) are more appropriately recognized if inserted during sleep.
- Improves compatibility with UNIX-based LPR print servers.
- Several other USB, FireWire, and SCSI device compatibility improvements are included.
- Expands support for ATA-style PC cards, including IBM Microdrives and digital camera media card readers.
Other Enhancements
- Improved compatibility with Microsoft Office v.X.
- Improved compatibility with MindVision InstallerVise when installing large amounts of data.
- Improves behavior when multiple applications are opened at once.
- Includes Apple DVD Player feature enhancements.
- Resolves a potential issue in which the speaker phase is inverted in certain iMac computers with slot-loading disc drives.
- Improves the responsiveness of the built-in microphone included with certain computers, improving Speech Recognition.
- Addresses a rare issue in which the screen display may become slightly misaligned when using a display attached to a GeForce2 video card.
- Resolves a certain issue in which minor screen artifacts may unexpectedly remain visible on the desktop after moving an item.
- Corrects an issue in which the time zone that includes Ireland and the United Kingdom may not be selectable in the Date & Time preference pane.
- Resolves a situation in which files may unexpectedly become locked when using certain applications.
- Improves copy-paste operations between Classic and Mac OS X-native applications.
- Includes AppleScript 1.8, which includes numerous AppleScript enhancements.
- Includes other audio enhancements.
- Addresses other potential kernel panic situations
- Improves results of QuickTime-based image rotation functions, such as when rotating an image in Image Capture.
Enhancements delivered with Mac OS X Update 10.1.1
Peripheral Device Enhancements
- Works with FireWire drives that use the 911 Oxford chip set.
- Different brands of FireWire-based (DV) cameras can now be swapped successfully while iMovie 2 is open.
- Resolves a potential issue that may occur when transferring information from one FireWire volume to another.
- Resolves a potential issue that could cause a USB mouse to temporarily stop responding.
- Resolves a potential issue that could cause a USB mouse and keyboard to stop responding after waking from sleep.
- Enhances reliability of certain SCSI devices, including Fujitsu MO (magneto-optical) SCSI drives, when used with Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One, Power Macintosh G3 Mini Tower and Power Macintosh G3 Desktop computers.
- Resolves a potential kernel panic situation when disconnecting a USB Q-Drive.
- Includes other general USB device reliability enhancements.
iTunes and CD burning-related Enhancements
- Works with Sony Digital Relay CRX 10U-A2, Sony CRX-1650L-A2, Sony Spressa Professional 10x4x32x, and BUSlink RW-2440FM devices.
- Offers improved reliability when resolving aliases of MP3 files in iTunes.
- Files with a long file name can be copied from a burned CD-ROM to a Microsoft Windows 2000- or Windows NT-based PC more reliably.
- Ejecting blank media with the media eject key (F12) now dismisses "Prepare CD" dialog boxes.
- DVD-RAM discs eject more reliably when used with non-DVD-RAM drives.
- Addresses a certain situation in which a burned CD or DVD disc may disappear from the desktop after being moved to the Trash but does not physically eject from the computer.
- Discs burned with iTunes eject more reliably.
- Addresses a rare issue in which a data CD does not burn as expected when using an external FireWire drive.
- Certain types of audio CDs become available for use more quickly.
- Reduces likelihood of a Prepare CD dialog window appearing while a CD is being burned.
- Enhances functionality of full-screen iTunes visualizations when hardware mirroring is enabled.
- Includes other general iTunes and CD burning enhancements.
iDisk, Internet Connectivity, Networking, and Web Sharing Enhancements
- iDisk works with the WebDAV digest authentication security protocol. You can access your iDisk and transfer files using Windows XP.
- Increases reliability of iDisk volumes that contain a large number of files and folders.
- Addresses an issue in which certain TCP/UDP packets in an oversized Ethernet frame may have been dropped. DHCP addresses may now be received more reliably from a network server or broadband (cable modem / DSL) Internet service provider.
- Resolves an issue in which copying a file larger than 2 GB to a Mac OS X Server host may have failed with an alert message -50.
- Addresses a potential kernel panic situation when connecting to a sharepoint in the Classic environment.
- The PPPoE MTU setting has been refined, improving general PPPoE connectivity.
- Addresses an issue in which an alert message code +1 could occur while accessing an HTTP or FTP URL string that contained a non-escaped character, such as a space.
- A potential situation in which a host could inadvertently connect to its shared volume has been addressed.
- Resolves a potential cause of alert message -30785 that may have appeared when accessing a directory using FTP.
- Resolves a potential cause of alert message -43 that may have appeared when uploading a folder using FTP.
- Permits "file://" URLs to work with file names that contain non-escaped characters, such as a space.
- Corrects certain situations in which an AppleShare (AFP) volume may be unexpectedly disconnected, resulting in a "The file server <name> has unexpectedly closed down" message.
- Addresses a rare, potential kernel panic situation that may have affected idle computers that route AppleTalk on a network.
Printing and PDF-related Enhancements
- Improves reliability when viewing certain types of PDF documents.
- A potential issue with using a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 1200 printer while the Classic Environment is open has been addressed.
- Provides expanded EPS document printing features.
- The time required to print Microsoft Word documents with certain content to a PostScript printer has been reduced.
- PDF documents can be saved with a percent sign character in the file name.
- Improves the process of selecting an AppleTalk- or USB-based PostScript printer PPD.
- Resolves a potential issue that may occur when printing an AppleWorks document that contains buttons and double-byte characters (such as Japanese).
Finder, Dock, Sleep, and System Settings Enhancements
- Resolves an issue on certain computers in which the system clock could potentially lose a few minutes per day unless a Network Time Synchronization server was used.
- Resolves a potential issue in which the Finder's Clean Up or Arrange By Name feature could result in overlapping Desktop icons.
- Improves performance of Arrange By Name when more than one display is connected.
- If multiple displays are connected, the Dock is no longer positioned to the left-most or right-most side of the non-primary display when moved.
- Enables video mirroring on PowerBook G4 (Gigabit Ethernet) computers.
- Improves sleep mode battery power conservation of certain PowerBook computers.
- Addresses certain potential Finder kernel panic situations.
Enhancements to the application Mail
- Addresses an issue in which the same messages may be received from a POP mail server if no mail rules were defined, regardless of the Delete on Server setting.
- Resolves a potential situation when sending a mail message that contains Japanese characters.
- Addresses an issue that could cause mails with certain HTML content to not display a vertical scroll bar.
- Improves interaction with certain types of IMAP mail servers.
- Improves reliability when opening certain types of message attachments.
- Enriches performance when importing mailboxes messages that contain certain Japanese characters.
- Improves mail account password security.
- Improves behavior when an SMTP mail message cannot be sent. The message is not sent later more than once.
- Enhances reliability when both Mail and Screen Saver are running during idle time.
- Improves reliability of Mail when retrieving a large number of messages from a POP server.
- Addresses a rare situation where a message retrieved from a POP server may not appear as expected.
- Resolves an issue in which the Mail application could potentially produce a kernel panic message and stop responding, if certain mail messages with HTML content were left open.
- Includes other general Mail reliability improvements.
Application-related Enhancements
- Enhances compatibility with Microsoft Office v. X.
- Image Capture works with additional Canon cameras.
- Resolves certain AppleWorks 6.2 application window positioning issues.
- Helps to resolve an issue in which the AppleWorks Magic Wand tool might fail to properly select an object.
- Improves AppleWorks (Japanese language version) performance when inputting two-byte characters.
- Enhances performance of applications that input two-byte characters using a Bottom Input Window, such as SimpleText, iTunes, and the Finder.
- Resolves an issue in which FileMaker Pro may fail to open successfully the first time after installation if the Automatic log in option was not enabled.
- Improves reliability of applications after a password authentication dialog box has been dismissed.
- Adds ability for disk-archiving software to restore multiple-linked files.
- Unsaved vector and floating point context is now preserved during sleep mode. Third-party screen savers that process data during idle time may benefit from this.
- Enhances Apple DVD Player controller (horizontal) animation.
- Apple DVD Player, through its preferences, offers a feature enabling it to open automatically once a DVD-Video disc is inserted.
- Resolves a potential issue that could occur when previewing multiple fonts with DiamondSoft Font Reserve software.
- Improves application reliability when items are dragged from inactive windows.