Apple has released the next developer preview of Mac OS X Lion.
The first version of Lion was reportedly buggy, and this build is said to be much more stable and complete, according to a TechCrunch report.
Apple released the last preview about a month ago, and it appears to have been revised quite a bit since then. The current build is 11A419, a significant jump from the first version, 11A390. It will be a couple of months before we see the full, "Gold Master" version, however.
Last week Apple announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will run from June 6-10 with a focus on software.
"At this year's conference we are going to unveil the future of iOS and Mac OS," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement. "If you are an iOS or Mac OS X software developer, this is the event that you do not want to miss."
OS X Lion could be fully unveiled at WWDC (Apple has previewed some of its features in the past). However, TechCrunch pointed out that it's likely the full, public version won't come until later in the year. Rather, Apple could hand out candidates for the complete release of Lion to developers at WWDC.
PCMag's lead software analyst Michael Muchmore got a sneak peek of Lion last month. Some of the never-before seen features he got a glimpse of include AirDrop, a wireless file-sharing utility; a redesigned Mail app; Resume, which presents the OS and Apps in the exact state at shutdown; Versions, which allows app developers to implement a feature that saves multiple snapshots of any document being worked on; and AutoSave, which does what its name suggests, saving documents automatically.
Stay with PCMag for more details on Mac OS X Lion as they're revealed.