Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 38
Safari Technology Preview Release 38 is now available for download for macOS Sierra and betas of macOS High Sierra. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update from the Mac App Store’s Updates tab. This release covers WebKit revisions 220128-220795.
Beacon API
- Enabled the Beacon API by default as an experimental feature (r220553)
- Added support for CORS-preflighting (r220442)
- Added support for CORS-preflighting on redirects (r220497)
- Added support for
connect-src
CSP checks on redirects (r220549) - Updated
sendBeacon()
to rely on FetchBody instead of the whole FetchRequest (r220366) - Changed to use “application/octet-stream”
content-type
for payloads ofArrayBuffer
andArrayBufferView
types (r220779)
Fetch API
- Added support for Request
keepalive
getter (r220244) - Changed Response to keep all ResourceResponse information (r220320)
- Implemented quota limitation for
keepalive
Fetch requests (r220751)
Web Payments
- Enabled Payment Requests as an experimental feature (r220787)
CSS
- Added support for parsing of the
font-display
property (r220725) - Implement
caret-color
support (r220706, r220714) - Added a fast path for
rotate()
androtateZ()
transform parsing (r220382) - Fixed parsing of
<meta http-equiv=refresh>
to allow time starting with a ‘.’ without a leading 0 (r220252) - Fixed a hit testing issue occurring when an SVG
rect
element with a non-default stroke style applied (r220717)
Web API
- Added support for considering file extensions in the
accept
attribute of HTML file input elements (r220135) - Improved support for referrer policies (r220208)
- Fixed the Promise resolve and reject function to have a length of 1 (r220324)
- Fixed an early error on an
ANY
operator beforenew.target
(r220481) - Fixed removing an empty
<li>
element when inside a table cell (r220398) - Fixed XHR to only fire an abort event if the cancellation was requested by the client (r220731)
Media
- Fixed deleting the old subtitle track on
src
attribute change event (r220472)
Apple Pay
- Added support for phonetic contact names (r220718)
Web Inspector
- Added Canvas path preview when viewing a recording (r220370)
- Changed clicking on an autocomplete suggestion to apply it, not dismiss it (r220614)
- Removed
text-shadow
andgradient
backgrounds (r220710) - Updated the filter icon in the styles sidebar (r220609)
WebDriver
- Added support for interacting with
<option>
and<select>
elements using the element click command (r220740) - Added support for uploading files via
<input type=file>
(r219874, r220115, r220135, r220147, r220222) - Fixed a timeout when a JavaScript alert is shown in
onload
handler (r220741) - Implemented “normal” and “eager” page load strategies from the W3C specification (r220317)
- Updated code to use in-view center points for clicks and other automation logic (r220314)