Is 10.4.8 safe now?

Is 10.4.8 safe now?
I'm on 10.4.7 and was going to update a few weeks back, but did not as there appeared (on forums) to be lots of issues with 10.4.8.
Is it safe and sorted now? anyone give feedback of an okay update or should I hold out for another few months?

Hi Nigel
after every new update there are a slew of posts about problems with it - I don't think that 10.4.8 had any more than 'usual' based on my experience here.
I've not had a single problem with 10.4.8 ( nor any other update ) & don't forget that most people don't come here to post that "everything's working fine" , so it's easy to get a bad impression.
Looking through various threads, I'd say that using Software Update ( as opposed to downloading the updates from Apple might be slightly less reliable..... but it's hard to be sure since I reckon that most people update w/o problems either way.
It's often recommended to run Disk Utility to Repair Disk Permissions before & after applying the update - so I'd do that if I were you.

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