System information

NSNumber/CFNumber now work better together when doing comparisons and equality tests. (r. 2546052).
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FoundationJava
The Java-language-specific portion of the Foundation Cocoa framework.
None of the NSFile* constants, like NSFileHFSCreatorCode, NSFileHFSTypeCode, NSFileExtensionHidden, etc.
existed on the Java side in Cocoa-Java AppKit; they have now been added. (r. 2830098).
NSScriptObjectSpecifier had a Misspelled field with the name InvlaidIndexSpecifierError. This field has been
renamed as InvalidIndexSpecifierError. (r. 2647563).
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Interapplication Communication
The portion of Cocoa providing functionality in the areas of distributed objects, system services, OS services, networking,
and rendezvous technologies.
A problem where dragging images to the NSPasteboard could leak some data into a private system memory area has
been corrected. (r. 2921843).
A problem in _NSLookupPBS() where spurious NSPortTimeoutException exceptions could be generated when it was
called from an application running as part of the login sequence has been corrected. (r. 2863180).
Moving a file to the trash with NSWorkspace now updates the Finder and succeeds even if a file with the same name
is already in the trash. (r. 2853822).
NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification is now sent even if the app that is terminating was already
running when you started to observe the notification. (r. 2841095).
Carbon 'url ' drag flavor is now mapped to a NSURLPboardType. When both a 'furl' and 'url ' are present in a drag
(which are both convertible to NSURLPboardType) AppKit will now choose to convert the 'furl' first. (r.
2794628).
NSWorkspace now returns correct application names in notifications when the application names contain "." or
other special characters. (r. 2671677).
A problem where large cut and paste operations of formatted text from Cocoa applications could lose style
information has been corrected. (r. 2630845).
A problem where NSWindow's dragImage was sometimes being drawn in the wrong location has been corrected. (r.
2796124).
A problem where private drags initiated from Cocoa applications were being passed through to carbon applications
has been corrected. (r. 2627542).
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Multimedia
The portion of AppKit providing sound and video support.
An application with an NSMovieView with autoresizing turned on would sometimes display garbage or black bars
over the controller during window resizing. We now correctly redraw the region during live resize. (r.
2784602).
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Services (AppKit)
Services give applications an open-ended way to extend each other's functionality by allowing applications to provide
services to other applications, and access functionality provided by other applications.
Third-party spell checkers now launch automatically (r. 2766130).