And a new security feature called System Integrity Protection (or "rootless") protects certain system files and folders from being edited or otherwise tampered with even if the user has administrator privileges. Apple says that the new beta includes support for third-party editing extensions for Photos, which may help replace some of the lost functionality from Aperture. Support for the new graphics API is included in the Core Graphics and Core Animation frameworks, which ought to improve rendering of animations and other GPU-accelerated effects on newer Macs.
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Mail supports some iOS-like gestures and becomes more useful in Full Screen mode, and Safari now supports Pinned Tabs and makes it easier for you to mute noisy tabs.Īs for under-the-hood features, the biggest one is Metal. Maps picks up public transit directions for several cities, including maps of subway stations with clearly labeled entrance and exit points.
El Capitan builds on Yosemite both functionally and visually while introducing some under-the-hood improvements and new APIs for developers, much as Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion did for Leopard and Lion, respectively.Īmong the user-visible improvements: Spotlight search is more powerful, and it can bring in data from more third-party sources and respond better to "natural" language like "photos from last week." Mission Control has been revamped, and it brings with it a Split View mode that lets you use two Full Screen apps on the same virtual desktop at the same time. The new build of the operating system should be broadly similar to the first developer beta we looked at a month or so ago, just with better stability and fewer bugs. The first public beta build is about the same as Developer Beta 3, which was also released this week. There doesn't appear to be any kind of limit on the number of people who can sign up for El Capitan, while the Yosemite beta last year was only available to the first million people to sign up.
Today, as promised, the company is expanding the beta to include any member of the general public with an Apple ID and the courage required to install it. The developer beta of OS X El Capitan has been available since WWDC in June, but to get it you needed to sign up for one of Apple's $99-a-year developer accounts. Further Reading First look: OS X El Capitan brings a little Snow Leopard to Yosemite
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