Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 205

Oct 7, 2024

by Jon Davis

Safari Technology Preview Release 205 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia beta and macOS Sonoma. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under General → Software Update.

This release includes WebKit changes between: 283688@main…284049@main.

HTML

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed adding an unexpected download failure when no placeholder URL is provided. (284157@main) (136378962)

JavaScript

New Features

  • Added support for Math.sumPrecise. (283774@main) (131580043)

  • Added support for Iterator.prototype.reduce. (283697@main) (136064316)

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Updated Intl.DurationFormat#resolvedOptions to the latest specification. (283901@main) (136276429)
  • Fixed Iterator Helpers methods to not iterate an array. (283933@main) (136303997)

Lockdown Mode

New Features

  • Enabled Lockdown Mode Safe Fonts to try parsing web fonts with a safe font parser in Lockdown Mode. While the safe parser is enabled the list of allowed fonts won’t be used. (283951@main) (125621507)

SVG

Deprecations

  • Removed the SVG 1.1 kerning property. (283718@main) (116965514)

Tables

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed table row direction to be determined by the table’s direction, not the section. (283875@main) (99343532)

Text

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: The changes for GB18030-2022 now properly impact GBK as well, as required by the Encoding Standard. (283987@main) (136368583)

Web API

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed the onrejectionhandled and onunhandledrejection event handler attributes to work correctly on body and frameset elements. (283698@main) (135401362)

Web Driver

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed chorded mouse interactions by ensuring input dispatch logic correctly interprets successive mousepress or mouserelease actions with different button values. (283790@main) (128669517)

Web Extensions

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed an issue to restore lost Safari Web Extension data. (136159837)

WebAssembly

New Features

  • Added support for the new Wasm Exception Specification. (283954@main) (131409318)