Apple issues Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 3
Apple on Wednesday included a beta version of Xcode 4.4 for developers alongside releases of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and Safari 5.2 The preview of Xcode 4.4 includes an updated Apple LLVM Compiler version 4.0. According to the release notes for the software, enhancements include:
- Objective-C language features
- Improved support for the 2011 C++ standard
- Major improvements to Xcode's static analyzer
- New interface builder support for AppKit features
- A viewer and editor for 3D files as .DAE documents
- Improvements to the Find Bar and Search Navigator
- Integrated QuickHelp in code completion
- Tweaks to the source editor jump bar popup
Known issues with the release include possible difficulty downloading earlier versions of Xcode from the App Store, scheme editing problems and several minor issues with linker and new load commands, DYLD_* environment variables and the network link conditioner. Additionally, non-admin users debugging or running Instruments will need to authenticate each time.
