h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Update 10.1.5 delivers enhancements which improve the reliability of Mac OS X applications, delivers improved networking, security, support for PC Card serial communication devices, and expanded peripheral device support. Specific improvements include:

Peripheral Device Support:
– Expanded support for new Canon digital cameras.
– Improved support for Nikon FireWire cameras.
– Expanded support for SmartDisk, EZQuest, and LaCie disc recording devices.
– Improved support for MO drives.

Application Improvements:
– Increased stability of Mail and Sherlock.
– Emails are properly retained when rebuilding the Draft mailbox.
– Support for 2D and QuickTime hardware acceleration for Rage Pro.
– Updated Carbon applications can use Quartz anti-aliasing technology for high quality text display.

Networking and Security Improvements:
– Improves networking via AFP when accessing multi-level directories on Windows NT file servers.
– Significant improvement to file searching on local and remote volumes.
– Includes a generic PC Card driver to support a variety of PC Card modems.
– Mail accounts go offline to indicate that SSL encryption settings are not supported by mail server.
– Includes the Security Update April 2002.

WebDAV Improvements:
– More efficient iDisk mounting and file navigation.
– Added support for connecting to iDisk using default DNS settings of AirPort.
– Support for mounting a WebDAV volume from a non-standard http port.

Asian Language Improvements:
– Significant updates to the Korean Input Method, especially important when using AppleWorks.
– Internet Connect and AirPort applications updated with Chinese and Korean localized content.