Apple has released the Gold Master of its latest OS X operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, to developers ahead of its impending general availability.
Designed as an incremental upgrade from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 promises some serious under-the-hood improvements including a redesigned kernel that is claimed to improve multi-tasking performance while simultaneously increasing battery life. This is boosted further by an 'App Nap' feature which puts backgrounded applications in a special low-power mode.
Additional new features include compressed memory, which will help to boost responsiveness when running multiple applications on Macs with only 4GB of RAM, security improvements, and a new Xcode release for developers.
The updated OS doesn't just change things in the background, either. OS X 10.9 is to include a new version of the Finder file manager, designed to make it easer to find and organise files. Support for multiple monitors, something OS X 10.8 struggles with with, is said to be greatly improved too.
Apple has yet to confirm a launch window for the software update, for which it is likely to charge a small fee, but the release of the Gold Master marks the end of the beta-testing period and a 'code freeze' that means the software is now complete and ready for launch. As a result, you can expect to see OS X 10.9 hitting retail within the following weeks.
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