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OS X Mavericks
Version of the macOS operating system
The default interface of OS X Mavericks
Developer
Apple Inc.
OS family
Macintosh
Unix[1]
Source model
Closed, with open source components
General availability
October 22, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-10-22)[2]
Latest release
10.9.5 (Build 13F1911) / July 18, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-07-18)[3]
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 iTunes is no longer being updated after March 2017,[4] but does have partial support for newer devices.[5][better source needed]
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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.
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.[6] 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.[7][8][9]
^"OS X Version 10.9 on Intel-based Macintosh computers". The Open Group. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
^"OS X Mavericks Available Today Free from the Mac App Store" (Press release). Apple Inc. October 22, 2013. Archived from the original on October 10, 2017. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
^"Download Security Update 2016-002 Mavericks". Apple Support. March 25, 2016. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
^"Apple security updates (2016 to 2017)". Apple Support. March 14, 2022.
^"iTunes – Apple". Archived from the original on 2006-11-07. Retrieved 2021-06-16.
^"Here's why Apple named its new Mac software 'El Capitan'". June 20, 2015. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
^"Apple WWDC 2013 Keynote". Archived from the original on 2014-02-18.
^"Apple Releases Developer Preview of OS X Mavericks With More Than 200 New Features" (Press release). Apple. June 10, 2013. Archived from the original on July 11, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
^Ha, Anthony (June 10, 2013). "Apple Has A New, California-Based Naming Scheme For OS X, Starting With OS X Mavericks". Techcrunch. Archived from the original on July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
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