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It is being reported that developers may receive their first seeds of pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.5 as soon as this weekend; Apple’s calling it a “maintenance and security update.” The OS X 10.5.5 Leopard update could provide support for new Apple notebooks that have been speculated about for a while now.

Those familiar with the update say that Apple Developer Connection members and other high-profile software developers could receive the first test builds of the software before the beginning of this weekend. The first seedings will almost certainly arrive by the middle of next week, at the latest. As soon as the first seed notes for Mac OS X 10.5.5 emerge, clues to a possible release date are likely to be noted as well. Next week would be a good time to keep an eye out for the documentation from Apple. The new builds should arrive numbered off the 9Fxx build train, if the speculation turns out to be correct. Once the new builds are seeded, it should take about a few weeks before the public can get their hands on it.

Apple has released their last Mac OS X update to the public (version 10.5.4) on June 30th, which included various bug fixes, patched a major glitch with Adobe’s Creative Suite 3.0, and provided the framework for Apple’s new MobileMe web service. The MobileMe requirements list revealed that users would need to run Mac OS X 10.5.4 along with iTunes 7.7 in order to benefit from the new features. The same requirements list also noted that 10.4.11 (Tiger) users would be able to use the service too, just not to the extent of Mac OS X Leopard users.

Via [AppleInsider]