Running Mac OSX Leopard? Looking for improved system stability and a refined UI? Then do I have some good news for you! Mac users were surprised with a nice treat today, with the release of the long awaited 10.5.2 update for Leopard. And it seems like Apple really is a good listener (he’s single too, ladies), the update focusses on several complaints that users have been reporting regarding Leopard’s UI since day one.

Among the list of issues fixed/improved is Stacks, users can now select a List view in addition to the standard Grid and Fan views for heavily occupied folders, as well as choose to display the stack as a Folder, eliminating the cluttered look. Also on the roster is the Menu Bar, now with the added option to enable/disable transparency to solve some text visibility issues depending on the wallpaper. And Time Machine has now found a new little niche in the Menu Bar (via icon) for easily accessible controls and status updates for backups and such.

But it’s what’s on the inside that counts right? Included in the update is the standard “reliability updates” to several programs including Time Machine, Safari and iSync and adds support for additional routers to “Back to my Mac”. Of course, there’s much more where that came from.

Unfortunately, it appears a few things didn’t make it to the finals. The ability to choose between the 3D “Shelf” dock or classic styled dock appears to have been removed from the final release and it seems as though Safari 3.1 just wasn’t ready for the spotlight yet (funny, but not “ha ha” funny, pun intended).

So don’t wait any longer and get the whopping 343MB update over here.

Now the question is, will Vista users be this satisfied with SP1?