through this period, apple had been attempting to release a completely new "modern" operating system, named copland. when the copland project was abandoned in 1996, apple announced plans to release an os update every six months until rhapsody (which would by 2001 evolve into what was released as mac os x) shipped. two more releases were shipped, now officially branded as "mac os" — mac os 7.6 and the minor bug fix 7.6.1. future versions were released as mac os 8–8.6 and mac os 9–9.2.