Matisyahu's Blog

Well, I’ve had a late night binge watching ‘The Handmaids Tale’, I checked the news and found that Apple had released updates along with an update for Safari 18.5 (link). Safari 18.5 release doesn’t include a lot of new features like the previous but there are a few bugs that have been fixed up and I see two bugs relating to extensions have been fixed which will hopefully result in a more reliable blocking experience. Apple has also updated their security update part of their website to include information on the security fixes included with the update (link). So far I’ve updated all my devices and they’re all working very reliably, Safari is working great (I completely cleared the cookies, cache and history so I could see what the update was like with a clean slate), there have been quite a few things updated such as the wifi driver and on iOS the modem firmware has also been updated. Oh, and the system firmware has been updated from 11881.101.1 to 11881.121.1 along with there being more user space extensions which makes me wonder whether this is the long term goal of macOS which is to push as much stuff out of kernel space as possible thus leaving only the absolutely necessary running in kernel space.