According to AppleInsider, the latest update of Leopard (10.5.3) should be available in less than a month.
It seems Apple released 3 betas in less than a week, the latest version appears to be clean, no bugs anymore, and it fixes more than 31 bugs, especially the Back to My Mac, Spaces, Time Machine and Airport.

Security-fix update for Safari, including a fix for Charlie Miller’s contest-winning exploit from CanSecWest.

Thanks to my friend Kofster again for these images!

iTunes 7.6.2, QuickTime 7.4.5, FrontRow 2.1.3, Keynote 4.0.3 and AirPort Utility 4.2.5 are available from the Software Update.
It seems Apple is fixing some security issues with QuickTime:

Apple is quietly adding several key anti-hacker security features into its flagship QuickTime media player as part of a deliberate plan to reduce the effectiveness of malicious exploits

eWeek writes.

All of these updates fix security, performance and stability issues.

I guess, we are getting used to have a FrontRow update with every iTunes & QT update.

Here’s finally an update to an application I love: NewsFire. (The best RSS reader for OS X according to me).

Leopard friendly interface with a new “fade when inactive” feature that makes the application transparent when inactive.The application is fast as usual, simple and affordable.

Download it here.

For those who are using one of the replacement icons as linked on MacAmour.com, you will have to do the hack again, here’s the link.

A few bug fixes to iWork and OS X compatibility fix for iWeb. As always, it’s better make updates.

These applications will be fixed probably by Mac OS 10.5.2: Active Directory/Directory Services, AirPort, AppKit, Application, Firewall, Audio, Automator, Back To My Mac, Chinese Input Methods, CoreData, CoreFoundation, Dashboard Widgets, Data Detectors, Directory Services, Dock, Finder, Foundation, Grammar Checking, Graphics Drivers, High Level Toolbox, iCal, iChat, iDisk, Keyboard Layouts, Mail, Networking, Parental Controls, Podcast Producer, Printing/CUPS, Quick Look, Rosetta, Safari, SMB, Spotlight, SQLite, Terminal, Time Machine, X11.

A list of the issues that will be fixed is available after the jump: this is not a exhaustive and final listing.
The update will be a big file it seems: maybe from 300 mb to 500 mb and will fix about 120 bugs on about 40 appications…
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