Apple releases 10.3.8 update

Written by Philip Roy | 10 February 2005

Apple today released a 10.3.8 update for users of Mac OS X 10.3 that includes a number of enhancements, such as iChat and Mail improvements, specific improvements with gaming applications and issues related to DVD playback.

The update is available via the software updates system of your Mac (provided you are running Mac OS X 10.3) or from the Apple site as a standalone download.

These are some of the enhancements delivered with the Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update:

• Addresses an issue with Mac OS X 10.3.7 in which iChat, Mail, or other network-based applications could take a long time to open.
• Addresses an issue in which a computer wouldn't always restart automatically after a power failure, even when the Energy Saver preference option "Restart automatically after a power failure" was selected.
• Improves the performance of Blizzard World of Warcraft's "Full Screen Glow" video feature.
• Improves DVD Player compatibility when playing a movie (using certain ATI Radeon cards) to an external widescreen TV with a 16:9 aspect ratio.
• Resolves an issue in which a "flicker" could be seen when navigating DVD menus in DVD Player on certain PowerBook G4 computers.
• Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
• Addresses "jumping cursor" issues that might occur when using your portable computer's trackpad with your thumb, side of thumb, or a "flat" finger.
• Resolves an issue on certain Power Mac G5 computers where a fan cycles erratically at unexpected times, such as when Seti@home software is running.
• Speeds up Address Book and Mail LDAP lookups that are performed by a Cisco DistributedDirector DNS server.
• Addresses an issue that could prevent clients using the Active Directory plugin from binding to their Active Directory server. 

More details available at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300569
Download from http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosxserverupdate1038.html

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