Apple has just let loose the latest patch for Snow Leopard users, bringing with it a whole plethora of fixes and updates.
There are no headline-grabbing features included in this update, but an awful lot of little fixes. Quite a few revolve around e-mail and contacts support, including reliability improvements when connecting to Exchange servers and the resolution of issues syncing with a Google address book and problems when dragging contacts from the Address Book to iCal.
There's also wider compatibility for RAW images and improved performance in MainStage and certain graphical applications and games. Otherwise, the fixes are all just resolving minor issues with stability, usability and security.
Interestingly though, support seems to have been removed for AirPrint. The feature - which allows you to send documents to shared or networked printers from an iOS device on the same network - was present in the pre-release versions of the update, but appears to have been mysteriously removed. There are now suggestions that the ability to use printers shared by Windows or Mac systems had been dropped, or at least delayed until a future update.
Unfortunately, it won't be possible to test whether or not this is the case until the company releases the AirPrint-enabling update that brings portable devices up to iOS 4.2. It's currently expected to be available for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches in the next few days.
The patch should start appearing now in Software Update, or you can download a meaty 644MB standalone installer if you prefer. Full release notes are also available from Apple's support pages.
