Matisyahu's Blog

Something that was rather unexpected was Apple releasing updates to their platforms – I was expecting Apple to release it maybe next week since releasing them on a Friday is a bit uncommon with the usual day being closer to the beginning of the week on around Tuesday or Wednesday NZ time. I’ve updated all my devices, Mac Studio, MacBook Pro, Apple TV 4K and iPhone, and I’ve noticed that they’re operating a lot smoother in terms of user interface responsiveness. The iPhone 17 Pro Max modem firmware was updated, on the two Macs had the wifi network stack updated but it’ll a few weeks before there are any detectable differences in terms of download and upload speeds when sending files from one device to another over the network along with internet speed.

Safari has been up dated to version 26.2 and Apple engineers have uploaded a pretty comprehensive document over on the WebKit website outlining the changes (link). I haven’t noticed any regressions and I have noticed a slight improvement when it came to the content blocking and on the subject of content blocking it does appear that the fix for the sub_frame bug relating to the Declarative Net Request (DNR) (link) is getting closer so hopefully we may see the fix appear in a future Safari Technology Preview and then eventually appear in a mainstream release of Safari. I have noticed that the performance is a lot better than the 18.x version of Safari particularly if you’re visiting complex websites that make use of a broad set of web technologies.