Apple Releases Massive Snow Leopard Update with Dozens of Security Fixes
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Peter James
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.5, a huge update to Snow Leopard. This update also contains dozens of security fixes – 78 bugs are fixed in Mac OS X, and dozens more in the Flash Player plug-in, which Apple currently includes in OS updates.
Detailed information about the security content of this update can be found here. Users can download the update using Software Update; this update varies in size, according to the type of Mac being updated, but is several hundred megabytes. Update packages can be downloaded here. The standard package is 644 MB, and the combo updater is 977 MB.
Users of Mac OS X Server can download a 1.12 GB combo updater here.