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  • It's a release candidate. That's what they are for, to catch bugs. Nothing to see here.

    ...except the interesting tidbits shared like this sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142208

    by samtheprogram
  • There's a few very annoying audio and Bluetooth bugs on MacOS. I've even installed 3rd party software to hack a fix one of them.
    by potatoproduct
  • what, there are still regression in the age of AI? or OpenGL is never in regression test suite to begin with?
    by jimmydoe
  • Fails to reproduce on macOS Version 26.6 (25G70) (but I can't post a reply on the forums because developer.apple.com currently hates me.)

    I get the green triangle and `hasDrawable=1 status=0x8cd5 glError=0x0` which is the expected result.

    by zimpenfish
  • Seems like a good time to mention that LunarG’s Vulkan-on-Metal wrapper reached Vulkan 1.4 conformance recently.

    https://www.lunarg.com/the-state-of-vulkan-on-apple-oct-2026...

    Now we need Mesa’s OpenGL-on-Vulkan to be production-ready when running on KosmicKrisp

    https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html

    by corysama
  • Right I'm still on 15.5. But random app windows flicker! FLICKER! And it's a brand new 2025 M4 MacBook Air. This is the kind of thing I would expect from like Linux in say 1998?
    by Haunt1000
  • Sad but not surprising. Apple marked their OpenGL subsystem as deprecated all the way back in 2018 with macOS 10.14 Mojave and iOS 12. By some miracle it has kept working all that time. While I hate it that Apple can just up and declare a widely used cross-platform API 'deprecated,' it's their system, not ours. So, we should not expect them to care or lift a finger if they accidentally break it.
    by ryandrake
  • The general Apple software quality decline seems to be accelerating. We are in the thousand papercut stage where lots of small things just don’t work properly.

    One of my Macs has developed the most insane habit of losing audio output capability, and then tries to route it to another one - a feature I didn’t even know existed.

    by mosura

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