Apple Makes Progress with 'Tiger'

One week after releasing build 8A369, Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.4 build 8A378 to a limited number of developers. The next release of Apple's operating system, code-named Tiger, is due in the first half of this year. Tiger will introduce a number of new features, including Apple's Spotlight search technology.

The latest development releases of Tiger provide insight into the progress being made inside Apple. Build 8A378 resolves a number of minor issues including plain text e-mails being sent as attachments, problems with dual G5 systems, as well as Spotlight indexing indefinitely. Some bugs have yet to be worked out, however, and developers have expressed concern over the speed of Spotlight.