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# Safari Technology Preview 209 Release Notes

Learn about the latest web technology updates in Safari Technology Preview: Browser, CSS, Rendering, Scrolling, SVG, Text, Web API, Web Extensions, and Web Inspector.

## Overview

Overview Safari Technology Preview Release 209 is now available for download for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update it in System Settings under General → Software Update. This release includes WebKit changes between: 286404@main…286707@main. Browser Resolved Issues Fixed an issue where sites would log out automatically after a brief time. (286436@main)  (99829958) CSS Resolved Issues Fixed an issue where SVG text was not displayed in a content-visibility: auto subtree. (286447@main)  (138040315) Fixed an issue where radial gradients with two color stops at 100% failed to extend the last color. (286413@main)  (139369366) Rendering Resolved Issues Fixed: Improved view-transitions performance by only rasterizing on-screen snapshots. (286553@main)  (139339149) Scrolling New Features Added support for Scroll To Text Fragment feature detection with document.fragmentDirective. (286423@main)  (139631353) SVG Resolved Issues Fixed SVG paths getting clipped at tile boundaries. (286550@main)  (135280080) Fixed SVG quadratic curve getting incorrectly clipped at tile boundaries. (286618@main)  (139904014) Text Resolved Issues Fixed an issue where a thick underline would not show on short content. (286639@main)  (64705955) Web API Resolved Issues Fixed HTMLElement.requestPointerLock to return a Promise. (286597@main)  (139854530) Web Extensions Resolved Issues Fixed CORS for Web Extension pages to respect granted per-site permissions. Developers will need to add a browser.permissions.request({origins: []}) call before doing any fetch() that is blocked by CORS. (286651@main)  (102912898) Web Inspector Resolved Issues Added the ability to modify only the headers of a request using a Request Local Override. (286679@main)  (139043491)

## See Also

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