OS X Mavericks
OS X Mavericks (version 10.9) is the 10th major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. OS X Mavericks was announced on June 10, 2013, at WWDC 2013, and was released on October 22, 2013, worldwide.
| Version of the macOS operating system | |
The default interface of OS X Mavericks | |
| Developer | Apple Inc. |
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| OS family | |
| Source model | Closed, with open source components |
| General availability | October 22, 2013 |
| Latest release | 10.9.5 (Build 13F1911) / July 18, 2016 |
| Update method | Mac App Store |
| Platforms | x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
| License | APSL, BSD, GPL v2, and Apple EULA and NDA |
| Preceded by | OS X Mountain Lion |
| Succeeded by | OS X Yosemite |
| Official website | Apple – OS X Mavericks – Do even more with new apps and features. at the Wayback Machine (archived October 15, 2014) |
| Tagline | Power to the desktop. |
| Support status | |
| Obsolete, unsupported as of September 2016. iTunes is no longer being updated after March 2017, but does have partial support for newer devices. | |
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The update emphasized battery life, Finder improvements, other improvements for power users, and increased iCloud integration, as well as bringing more of Apple's iOS apps to OS X. Mavericks was named after the surfing location in Northern California. It also removed some of the skeuomorphic designs from OS X Mountain Lion, and it is the final version of macOS that features the Lucida Grande typeface as the standard system font since Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000.
Mavericks was the first OS X release to be named after a location in California, and the first to be a free upgrade since Mac OS X 10.1 Puma.