Apple has just released its first beta version for iPhone 4S, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad 1, and iPod Touch to the registered iOS Dev Center. We still have no ETA on the public release date. However, it is expected to roll out before January.

iOS 5.1 release notes:Introduction:
iOS SDK 5.1 provides support for developing iOS applications and includes the complete set of Xcode tools, compilers, and frameworks for creating applications for iOS and Mac OS X. These tools include the XcodeIDE and the Instruments analysis tool among many others.

With this software you can develop applications that run on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 5.1. You can also test your applications using the included iOS Simulator, which supports iOS 5.1. There are twoXcode iOS SDK 5.1 images, one for installing on a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.6.7 (Snow Leopard) or later, the other for installing on a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

This version of iOS is intended only for installation on devices registered with Apple’s developer program. Attempting to install this version of iOS in an unauthorized manner could put your device in an unusable state.

For more information and additional support resources, visit: http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/

Bug Reporting:
Please report any bugs not mentioned in the “Introduction” section using the Apple Bug Reporter on the Apple Developer website (http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/). Additionally, you may discuss these issues and iOS SDK 5 in the Apple Developer Forums: http://devforums.apple.com. You can also access more information about iCloud for Developers at: http://developer.apple.com/icloud
Notes and Known Issues

The following issues relate to using the 5.1 SDK to develop code.

Accounts:
When creating an iCloud account, you can use any Apple ID as long as it is a full email address and not a MobileMe account. If you have a MobileMe account, you can move that account to iCloud. You can find more information at: http://me.com/move

APIs

  1. The NSNetService class and CFNetService APIs do not include P2P interfaces by default. To browse, register, or resolve services over P2P interfaces, an application needs to use theBonjour DNSService*() APIs noted below. 
  2. Setting the interfaceIndex parameter to kDNSServiceInterfaceIndexAny in the following API’s will not include P2P interfaces by default. To include P2P interfaces, you must now set thekDNSServiceFlagsIncludeP2P flag when using kDNSServiceInterfaceIndexAny or set theinterfaceIndex to kDNSServiceInterfaceIndexP2P. The affected APIs are:
  • DNSServiceBrowse 
  • DNSServiceRegister 
  • DNSServiceResolve 
  • DNSServiceRegisterRecord 
  • DNSServiceQueryRecord 

GameKit
App Icons and Profile Photos are not loading in apps using Game Center.

iCloud Storage

  • Provisioning profiles must be enabled for iCloud in the iOS Provisioning Portal. You can enable a provisioning profile for iCloud by navigating to the App ID section of the iOS Provisioning Portal and configuring your App ID for iCloud. After enabling the App ID for iCloud, regenerate your provisioning profiles to enable them for iCloud. 
  • The setSortDescriptors: method of NSMetadataQuery is not supported. 
  • In iOS 5, files that are protected via Data Protection cannot be used with iCloud Storage APIs. 
  • File names are case-insensitive in Mac OS X but case-sensitive in iOS. This can lead to problems when sharing files between the two using iCloud. You should take steps on iOS to avoid creating files whose names differ only by case. 

Movie Player: Starting in iOS 5.0, in order to facilitate finer-grained playback control, a movie player is not automaticallyprepared to play upon creation. Call the prepareToPlay method to prepare the movie player. For more information, see MPMoviePlayerController Class Reference.

Music Player: Using shake-to-shuffle causes Music app to freeze and playback to stop.

Newsstand FIXED: Deleting an issue that was marked as the currently reading issue could cause a crash.

Security: In iOS 5, the signing of certificates with MD5 signatures is not supported. Please ensure that certificates use signature algorithms based on SHA1 or SHA2.

Download iOS 5.1 from the iOS Dev Center. If you find any trouble with the downloading process, please be patient.

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