This week, I haven't discovered much new in the way of problems or incompatibilties with Leopard, but there is some new info regarding compatibility and testing with various applications.
Adobe Application Compatibility with OS X Leopard
Adobe has recently released their official notice about Leopard and Adobe compatibility.
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf
The news is good - all of the primary applications in the CS3 suite - including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, InCopy, and Bridge all work well. Some applications still need some fixes - Acrobat Professional and the Adobe video apps - but even so the issues are not work halting.
This matches indentically with our testing. The major apps run without a fuss - and combined with the new features of Leopard, like spaces, we think that Leopard + CS3 is soon to be a killer combination.
All in all, the progression of application compatibility with such a major OS upgrade seems to be right on track - if not faster than anticipated, probably because of the delay of Leopard from June to October that Apple made earlier this year.
Leopard Update available today
In other news, Apple released the 10.5.1 Update today - which resolves a host of issues with 10.5. Rather than downloading the update from the link above, it's faster to do so through Software Update under the Apple Menu.
It also fixes the data move bug that we reported on earlier - which is good news.
This post from Apple has information about what is fixed in this update.
Once again, in less than a month Apple released a 10.5 update that addresses the major issues with Leopard so far. Add to that the constant stream of updates from the applications developers and we're expected to certify Leopard for production environments very soon.
VPN Tracker Update
Equinux's VPN Tracker is still incompatible with Leopard, but we have a few indications that it won't be for long.
Equinux is already testing Beta 2 of their 5.0 software that will give people Leopard compatibility. In addition, in our testing has shown some interesting variations. VPN Tracker 4.9.3 does run on PowerPC-based systems (like G5s), just not Intel machines. In addition, it runs much smoother on Leopard - partly because of the under-the-hood improvements on system components used for encrypted VPN access. We think this is really good news - and it means that universal VPN clients on the Mac will really be elegant solutions in Leopard.
