iOS 5.1

The seed repaired a crash triggered by deleting the Newsstand issue selected for reading.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Newsstand — Deleting an issue that was marked as the currently reading issue could cause a crash

Service-discovery APIs required explicit peer-to-peer inclusion instead of searching those interfaces automatically.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Networking — NSNetService class and CFNetService APIs do not include P2P interfaces by default

The Xcode preview packaged its tools together inside the application instead of relying on a separate installer.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · Xcode Developer Tools NEW — distributed as a single application bundle, Xcode.app

Beta 2 marked the documentation-organizer exception from the preceding seed as repaired.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · Xcode FIXED — documentation organizer causes an exception

The network-conditioning service's post-install launch failure was marked repaired in Beta 2.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · Xcode FIXED — Network Link Conditioner daemon cannot be launched

The second seed marked the missing Game Center icons and profile pictures as repaired.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · GameKit FIXED — App icons and profile photos are not loading in apps using Game Center

Setup Assistant could return to its Wi-Fi or completion step just after setup had finished.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · Setup Assistant NEW — Immediately after completing the Setup Assistant, it may re-appear

The second beta marked the removal script's overbroad deletion behavior as fixed.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · Xcode FIXED — script mistakenly removes files and packages

Photo Stream gained on-device deletion, with removals propagating to other devices on the same beta.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · iCloud Photo Stream NEW — Photos taken using iOS 5.1 can be deleted from Photo Stream
2. [2] Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers, Enables Photo Stream Photo Deletion · Release coverage — addition of a much-requested feature related to the management of photos in the Photo Stream

A lock-screen state could suppress the camera control after a Home-button double press.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Apple Releases iOS 5.1 Beta 2 to Developers · SpringBoard Lock Screen NEW — double-clicking the home button will no longer bring up the camera button

The third beta introduced a resource property for omitting selected application content from backup.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to Developers, Restores 'Enable 3G' Toggle · Release-note API — add the NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey attribute to prevent the corresponding file from being backed up

Testers reported that the cellular settings once again offered a control for disabling 3G data.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Apple Seeds iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to Developers, Restores 'Enable 3G' Toggle · Observed setting — new build restores the toggle that allows users to turn off 3G cellular data access

Apple records an updated AT&T network indicator without describing any underlying radio or throughput change.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — Updated AT&T network indicator

Apple repaired racoon configuration-file handling that could allow crafted system configuration data to run code with system privileges.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · VPN — CVE-2012-0646

Apple addressed a physical-access sequence that could bypass Passcode Lock through competing slide-to-dial actions.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · Passcode Lock — CVE-2012-0644

Apple fixed a logic error that could let a malicious program execute code in another program with the same user privileges.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · Kernel — CVE-2012-0643

Visits produced through the pushState or replaceState JavaScript methods were prevented from appearing in browser history during a private session.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · Safari — CVE-2012-0585

The update corrected an underflow that Apple said could cause shutdown or arbitrary code execution when a malicious disk image was mounted.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · HFS — CVE-2012-0642

The voice assistant expanded to Japanese, with Apple warning that availability could be limited during the initial rollout.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — Japanese language support for Siri

The lock-screen Camera shortcut was made continuously visible on listed devices, face detection highlighted all recognized faces, and the iPad Camera app received a new design.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — Camera improvements

Apple lists battery-life bug fixes but does not assign them to a particular device, subsystem, or reproducible symptom.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — battery life

Apple optimized TV-show and movie audio for greater clarity and volume and added podcast playback-speed control with a 30-second rewind.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — iPad media and podcast controls

Apple repaired malformed-URL handling that could cause unexpected headers to be sent to a server and disclose sensitive information.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · CFNetwork — CVE-2012-0641

The lock-screen policy was tightened so a voice command could not send a frontmost email message to an arbitrary recipient without unlocking.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · Siri — CVE-2012-0645

The advisory groups fixes for cross-origin isolation and a broad set of memory-safety flaws, including cases capable of script injection, data disclosure, or arbitrary code execution.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · WebKit — CVE-2011-3887, CVE-2012-0590, CVE-2011-3881 through CVE-2012-0635

Apple corrected a condition that could occasionally cause audio to drop while placing an outgoing call.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — outgoing call audio

The parser was hardened against crafted DNS data that could terminate an application or corrupt heap memory and enable code execution.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About the security content of iOS 5.1 Software Update · libresolv — CVE-2011-3453

The Music experience exposed Genius-created mixes and playlists to users with an iTunes Match subscription.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — Genius for iTunes Match subscribers

Photo Stream gained an explicit deletion capability for removing individual images.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 5 · iOS 5.1 — Photo Stream deletion

Entering text in Xcode's documentation organizer could raise an exception.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Xcode — documentation organizer causes an exception

The first 5.1 seed continued to lack sort-descriptor support in metadata queries.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · iCloud Storage — setSortDescriptors: method of NSMetadataQuery is not supported

After installation, the network-conditioning service could remain unavailable until a restart.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Xcode — Network Link Conditioner daemon cannot be launched

Using iCloud storage depended on a provisioning profile that had been enabled for the service.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · iCloud Storage — Provisioning profiles must be enabled for iCloud

Different filename case rules across Mac and iOS still created a cloud-document interoperability risk.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · iCloud Storage — File names are case-insensitive in Mac OS X but case-sensitive in iOS

The gesture-based shuffle action could lock the Music application and interrupt audio.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Music — Using shake-to-shuffle causes Music app to freeze and playback to stop

Applications needed to prepare a newly created movie player before starting playback.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Media Player — movie player is not automatically prepared to play upon creation

Applications using Game Center could show neither their icons nor players' profile images.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Game Center — App Icons and Profile Photos are not loading in apps using Game Center

The removal script risked deleting files beyond its target when Xcode was still running.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · Xcode — mistakenly removes files and packages

Cloud-document storage remained incompatible with files guarded by Data Protection.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS SDK Release Notes for iOS 5.1 Beta 1 (preserved PDF) · iCloud Storage — files that are protected via Data Protection cannot be used with iCloud Storage APIs