Matisyahu's Blog

Last week when I heard that Apple had released the RC version of their update I was wondering whether they would hold off till Tuesday NZ time or Wednesday NZ Time to make the update available publicly – it appears that they’ve decided to release it Tuesday NZ Time. In the updates there are a sizeable number of security updates (link) as well as improvements to Safari (link).

For me, my excitement around releases has less to do with fixes for bugs because I haven’t been hit by any nasty bugs but I do like how Safari is being regularly updated. I have kept track of features on Webkit with some of them potentially being disruptive, such as the move to the Webextensions API implementation in the source tree, which they may not enable in the mainstream branch until Safari 18 this year when it ships with macOS 15.

Two more weeks to go and then I’m heading overseas, I’ll make sure I take many photos but I’ll upload them when I can – it may not be until I get back to New Zealand but I am taking my laptop so I can update my blog when I’m travelling (I’m sure there will be free wifi at the places I’ll stay). Side note, I love the decision Apple did to move to ARM based Macs because the battery life is so much better and the performance really is top notch even for a device (I have a MacBook Air) that doesn’t have a fan.