Apple rilascia Lion OS X 10.7.3!
Apple ha rilasciato l'aggiornamento 10.7.3 per OS X Lion, che va a correggere numerosi bug, ma non aggiunge nuove funzionalità, per rendere il sistema più stabile e sicuro, insieme a questo aggiornamento è stata rilasciata anche una nuova versione di Safari che giunge alla build 5.1.3.
Il corposo aggiornamento ha un peso di 1,3 GB, ed è disponibile sia per la versione client che server di Lion. I bug risolti vanno ad eliminare problemi come l'uso delle schede smart per accedere a OS X, l'autenticazione con i servizi directory e va a migliorare la compatibilità della condivisione con sistemi Windows. Oltre a questo il nuovo update risolve anche un problema relativo alle schede video AMD Radeon su iMac, che no riuscivano a raggiungere le prestazioni massime dopo lo stato di sleep, ed è stato risolto anche un bug nel servizio di stampa dei documenti Word.
Per quanto riguarda Safari l'aggiornamento va a risolvere un problema fastidioso che impediva al browser di avviarsi se non veniva rilevata una rete Wi-Fi.
Ecco la lista delle correzioni per la versione client:
The OS X Lion v10.7.3 Update includes Safari 5.1.3 and fixes that:
- Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support
- Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
- Address compatibility issues with Microsoft Windows file sharing
- Address an issue printing Microsoft Word documents that use markup
- Address a graphics performance issue after sleep on some earlier iMacs that use ATI graphics
- Resolve a Wi-Fi connection issue when waking from sleep
- Address an issue that may prevent Safari from opening before joining a wireless network
- Fix a potential issue authenticating to an SMB DFS share
- Include RAW image compatibility for additional digital cameras
Directory Services
- Improve binding to read-only Active Directory Domain Controllers
- Improve binding and login speed for Active Directory users in a domain whose name ends in ".local"
- Improve reliability of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by Active Directory clients
- Allow login with an Active Directory username that contains a space
- Improve compatibility with Active Directory schemas that have been extended with the "apple-user-homeDirectory" and "apple-user-homeurl" attributes
- Fix home directory Dock item for Active Directory users with mobile accounts
- Allow NIS users with MD5-hashed passwords to log in
File Sharing pane in the Server application
- display number of connected users
- list connected users
- disconnect specific AFP users with a message
- send a message to specific AFP users
- set a login greeting message for AFP users
- access to advanced ACL controls
VPN pane in the Server application
- choice of enabling L2TP or L2TP and PPTP protocols
- sharing of address ranges between L2TP and PPTP (if PPTP is enabled)
- configure DNS name server addresses and domain names provided to VPN clients
- option to save L2TP or PPTP settings as a configuration profile
Web pane in the Server application
- enable .htaccess overrides
- edit web sites' domain names
- map multiple domains into a single web site
- configure redirects and aliases
- specify custom index files
- choose SSL certificates for individual websites
Wiki Server
- support for editing Wiki pages from an iPad running iOS 5 or later
- support for Active Directory groups
- improved reliability for certain timezones
- improved support for an administrator-specified custom tag, protocol and inline style whitelist
Profile Manager
- updated Exchange, Mail and Restrictions payloads for iOS clients
- updated Dock payloads for OS X clients
- performance improvements
- allow VPN payloads to be used by both iOS and OS X clients
- support for External Account home folder locations
- improved support for managing enterprise applications
The update also includes specific fixes for:
- iCal Server auto-acceptance of meetings during free times
- authenticated directory binding to Open Directory servers with Directory Utility
- improved reliability of setting up Open Directory replicas
- correctly create podcasts when bound to an Active Directory server using Podcast Publisher
- improved support for different certificates used for IMAP/POP and SMTP in the Server application
- improved searching of logs in the Server application
- web password reset support when using the Internet Explorer 9 browser
Segnaliamo in fine anche un aggiornamento di sicurezza per OS X Snow Leopard sia in versione client (Update) che server (Update).
