Apple’s fifth El Capitan public beta was quickly pulled yesterday after its release, but the company is ready to give developers a taste of the newest fixes in its upcoming operating system with the release of El Capitan beta 7.
The seventh El Capitan beta comes over two weeks after the previous beta was seeded to developers. It doesn’t appear that Apple has added any major new features in El Capitan beta 7, however it does include numerous bug fixes and performance enhancement.
Apple has also reseeded the 5th public El Capitan beta that brought a new colored OS X logo in the About This Mac section, which should be included in this beta build as well. Other than that most of the changes will be performance improvements.
Developers can grab the new update from the Apple Developer Center or via the Software Update section in the Mac App Store if you already have the previous beta installed. We’ll let you know if we find any big additions once we get it installed on your machines.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
12 responses to “El Capitan beta 7 is now ready for testing”
What?
hmm I never had that issue, they fixed Slack being unable to go into split screen view which is nice. You used to have to grab slack by the green corner button and drag it first to one side or else it would say Slack unable to split or something like that.
This version of the Beta appears to solve the conflict with Microsoft Word 2016 Preview Edition where Word would crash if you tried to Save As.
I have installed this Beta and now I cannot get the Apple Mail app to open. I click on the icon, it bounces, it closes…with an error report. Any ideas, anyone?
That’s been happening to me for a while, if you have a lot of windows open and go into the inbox it tends to happen more quickly. It’s certainly frustrating. I think it’s a bit more stable with this update though.
I wouldn’t know if it is more stable I cannot open it. Mail app is useless on my iMac right now.
Restart your computer try the usual stuff, reset the ram, etc
reset RAM, restarted several times. any forum i can go to for answers? Mail is essential.
also try resetting the SMC
Are you using any mail plugins? That is usually the cause in my case.
2 weeks ago my iMac crashed during the installation of update of El Capitan. 2 days HDD spinned, it died – bad sectors. I bought new iMac, since 10 days I am trying to Install it with acces to my data backed up on Timecapsule. I was forced to install beta El Capitan again, to get the data back, and to install new version to get my photos back. It forced me to install latest actualisation, and during that the progress stoped at 60% and I have had to reinstall computer again … 3 times!!! Now I am trapped in never ending psycho circus – I must install El Capitan to get my data back, and during the installation my iMac is getting bricked again and again.
Apple, I hate you!!!!!
Well only a moron wouldn’t have a Yosemite backup. I bet you installed El Cap over the top of Yosemite too? If you even cared to read the Beta installation notes, you might have read to NOT install on your primary machine and NOT to install over current systems. You got exactly what you asked for. Don’t blame Apple for you NOT reading the installation notes and doing the exact opposite. Moron.