Snow Leopard Update 10.6.6 Pushing Through For Mac App Store

Apple has yet to release the final version of the next major update to Snow Leopard (version 10.6.5 Build 10J521) and has already released the first seed of version 10.6.6 to developers for initial review. Mac OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.6 will be required to run the new Mac App Store. It appears to be on the development fast track to be ready in time for release of the Mac App Store.

The primary seed note states the main purpose of this update:

Contains developer support for fetching and renewing App Store receipts. See "Validating App Store Receipts" for more details.

The Mac App Store is set to launch around January 20, 2011.

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