Apple’s software testing partners have reportedly received a new iOS 8 beta build that fixes a whole bunch of bugs present in beta 5. It seems the Cupertino company won’t be making this release available to registered developers, but sources say a GM seed is right around the corner.

“We are told that because we are so close to Apple’s GM build (the final one, barring any huge problems), Apple has not seeded this to developers to test,” reports Boy Genius Report. Testing partners have until September 5 to accept this build, but it is thought one of those has already rejected it due to an issue with YouTube playback in Safari.

A long list of other issues has been addressed with this release, however, including bugs that affected Continuity, FaceTime, GameCenter, iCloud document syncing, Mail, and Maps. Here’s the complete change log obtained by BGR:

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Not Available Issues fixed since Seed 5 Baseband & Telephony

Fixed an issue where incorrect pop up message was displayed when SIM was removed

Fixed an issue where clicking on cancel button turned LTE on

Fixed an issue where excessive registration was tried with dual IMSI SIM Continuity

Fixed an occasional mail continuity failure from OS X to iOS

Fixed an issue causing continuity to fail after opening control center FaceTime

Fixed an occasional problem where MT call connection quality would be incorrectly treated as “poor” GameCenter

Fixed an issue where the active photo cannot be deleted iCloud

Fixed a problem where document sync would sometimes consume excessive cellular data iTunes Store

URLs for the store app are no longer broken in received mail

Fixed a problem with excessive prompts to sign in to the iTunes Store Keyboard

Fixed an intermittent issue keyword shifting when rotating the screen

Fixed an issue where the emoji keyboard was unusable on Safari Mail

Notes are no longer duplicated when opened through Gmail

Fixed an issue where after withdrawing a draft with attachments, browsing to another message resulted in the attachments getting lost

Fixed an issue where forwarding an email without a photo attachment still sends a photo

Fixed an issue when forwarding an email with an attached photo just brought up the original message without a photo

Fixed an issue where email could be deleted from the lock screen without prompting for a passcode Maps

Fixed a problem where maps would sometimes consume excessive cellular data Messages

Added support for SMS relay opt-in prompt

Fixed issue that caused devices to receive SMS via relay for unselected aliases

Fixed failures sending current location via MMS

Fixed an issue where messages partially overlap Chinese keyboards

Fixed an issue where changing a group name didn’t propagate to other devices until a message is sent Phone

Fixed an issue where an incoming call was being relayed back to originating phone Fixed an issue where options on declining a call didn’t work with call relay Photos

Fixed an issue where edited photos did not display properly after restoring from backup

Improved full screen photo sharing

Set default to keep all photos on device for users with 5GB iCloud space

Fixed an issue where a user could not select multiple photos and upload to Facebook via Safari Push Notifications

Improved push connection management upon account logout with multiple associated devices

Fixed a problem where Exchange push notifications would stop after responding to an invitation from the lock screen

Fixed an issue where a user does not receive a notification for incoming messages when the banner for the previous one is pulled down Springboard

Fixed an issue unlocking an iPhone while on an active call

Fixed an issue where the keyboard would sometimes become unresponsive when the screen is locked Visual Voicemail

Fixed an issue where Voicemail could not be played under certain error conditions

Fixed an issue where Phone App hanged when tried to check Voicemail

As long as there are no major issues with this release, developers should see an iOS 8 GM in the coming weeks. The GM build will be almost identical to the public release — in fact, the first public iOS releases are often GMs with a different build number. It seems we won’t be seeing any new iOS betas before then, however.

Source: Boy Genius Report