Safari 14.1 Release Notes

Overview

Safari 14.1 ships with iOS & iPadOS 14.5 and macOS Big Sur 11.3.

Authentication and Passwords

New Features

• Added support for Touch ID and Face ID via WebAuthentication to all WKWebViews. See Web Authentication for more information.

CSS and Web Animations

New Features

• Added support for CSS individual transform properties: translate, rotate, and scale.

• Web Animations now support animating discrete properties and pseudo-elements, see Web Animations.

• Safari now supports flexbox gaps with row-gap and column-gap, see Gap Shorthand: the gap property.

JavaScript and WebAssembly

New Features

• Added support for static instance class fields, private instance class fields, and static public class fields — public instance class fields were already supported. See Public and private instance fields proposal for more information.

• Added support for new ECMAScript Internationalization API features:

  • Added Intl.NumberFormat updates.

  • Added Intl.DisplayNames updates.

  • Added Intl.ListFormat updates.

  • Added Intl.Segmenter.

  • Added Intl.DateTimeFormat updates to dateStyle and timeStyle options on the Intl.DateTimeFormat API Specification, Intl.DateTimeFormat.prototype.formatRange, Add dayPeriod option, and Add fractionalSecondDigits option.

• Added support for WeakRefs and FinalizationRegistry.

• Added support for Arbitrary module namespace identifier names.

• Added support for WebAssembly atomic instructions in the Threading specification.

• Added support for WebAssembly BigInt integration.

• Added support for WebAssembly Sign-extension instructions.

Media

New Features

• Added support for WebM files containing VP8 or VP9 video tracks and Vorbis audio tracks in macOS, see WebM Container Guidelines.

• Added support for MediaStream Recording to enable websites to record audio and video, see MediaStream Recording.

• Added support for getUserMedia from MediaStream and Capture API in WKWebView.

Safari Web Extensions

New Features

• Added support for WebExtensions API to replace the new tab page.

• Added support for non-persistent background pages.

Security and Privacy

New Features

• Improved Storage Access API interoperability and specification compliance, see Storage Access API.

• Added support for Private Click Measurement, enabling privacy-preserving ad attribution for web-to-web and app-to-web flows.

WebKit Framework

New Features

• Added support for HTML date, time, and datetime-local input types in macOS, enabling date and time controls in forms. For more information, see Date state (type=date).

• Added support for Web Audio API, now unprefixed, compliant, and including Audio Worklets. This enables better compatibility for advanced audio processing, see Web Audio API for more information.

• Added support for Web Speech API that enables speech recognition and speech synthesis for websites.

• Improved mouse support in iPadOS and in apps built with Mac Catalyst, including scrolling events and hover/pointer media queries.

• Added support for Paint Timing, a Web API that measures how quickly a webpage is displayed. See Paint Timing 1 for more information.

See Also

Version 14

• Safari 14 Release Notes