Apple has already made it clear that they’ve got a media event happening on Wednesday, September 9, but that doesn’t mean the beta train has a come to an end.
On Monday, August 31, Apple officially seeded the eighth beta for OS X El Capitan, the company’s next version of its desktop operating system. It’s been two weeks since Apple released the seventh beta, and for those keeping track, it’s been just over two months since Apple initially debuted the desktop OS back at its Worldwide Developers Conference.
As is par for the course, the latest beta, which is build 15A279b, is now available through the Mac App Store and the Update tab for machines already running the seventh beta. It will also be available through the Apple Developer Center soon, if it hasn’t already been populated by the time of publication.
As far as what’s new, that’s unknown at this point. The latest betas for OS X El Capitan have all focused on behind-the-scenes tweaks and improvements, with no real forward-facing changes up to this point.
Here are the Macs that support the new software:
- iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
- MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
- MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
As far as new features go, OS X El Capitan introduces a brand new font that will be system wide, as well as deeper functionality baked into Spotlight, the ability to pin sites within Safari and other improvements to the browser, and much more.
Additionally, Apple has also seeded the sixth public beta to those in the public beta pool. That’s available in the same way as the developer beta, with public beta testers accessing the new software from the Mac App Store and the Updates tab.
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