In Mac OS X, Safari usually requires the latest system update (minor version release) in order to function.
| Major version |
Minor version |
WebKit version |
Operating System |
Release date |
Features |
| Safari |
0.8 |
48 |
Mac OS X v10.2 |
7 January 2003 |
Public Beta. Initial release at Macworld San Francisco. |
| 0.9 |
73 |
14 April 2003 |
Public Beta 2. Tabbed browsing, forms and passwords autofill, browser reset (removes cookies, cache, etc.), Netscape and Mozilla bookmarks importing, improved support for web standards, improved AppleScript support, more localizations. |
| Safari 1 |
1.0 |
85 |
23 June 2003 |
First non-beta release. Safari is now default Mac OS X browser, faster autotabs, support for iSync bookmark synchronization, all Mac OS X languages supported, more AppleScripts to control browser, improved support for web standards. |
| 1.0.3 |
85.8.5 |
13 August 2004 |
Improves the Safari rendering engine to expand third party application support and delivers the latest security enhancements. |
| 1.1 |
100 |
Mac OS X v10.3 |
24 October 2003 |
Released with Mac OS X v10.3. Improved speed, improved support for web standards, improved CSS support. |
| 1.2 |
125 |
2 February 2004 |
Improved compatibility with websites and web applications. Support for personal certificate authentication. Full keyboard access for navigation. Ability to resume interrupted downloads. Sajax and LiveConnect support. XMLHttpRequest support. |
| 1.3 |
312 |
15 April 2005 |
Released with 10.3.9. Included most of the rendering speed and website compatibility improvements that were developed for 2.0. designMode support. |
| 1.3.1 |
312.3 |
29 August 2005 |
Improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications. |
| 1.3.2 |
312.5 |
11 January 2006 |
Improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications. Requires 1.3.1 in order to install. |
| 1.3.2 |
312.6 |
12 January 2006 |
Requires earlier version in order to install. |
| Safari 2 |
2.0 |
412 |
Mac OS X v10.4 |
29 April 2005 |
Dubbed "Safari RSS." Released with Mac OS X v10.4. Improved rendering speed and website compatibility. Integrated RSS and Atom reader. Integrated PDF viewer. Private Browsing mode and Parental Controls. Ability to save complete websites using the proprietary WebArchive format. |
| 2.0.2 |
416.11 |
31 October 2005 |
Safari passes the Web Standards Project Acid2 test. |
| 2.0.4 |
419.3 |
10 January 2006 |
Most widely distributed version of Safari 2, available only as part of Mac OS X Update 10.4.4.[1] Last stable version released before version 3.0. Last Mac OS X-exclusive version. |
| Safari 3 |
3.0 |
522.11 |
11 June 2007 |
Public beta. Initial release at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Version for Mac OS X v10.4.9 and later. Improved searching within web pages. Drag and drop tabs, and the ability to save a group of tabs as a single bookmark. Live resizing of text input fields. Bonjour support for bookmarks. Initial SVG support. |
| 3.0.2 |
522.12 |
22 June 2007 |
Public beta. |
| 3.0.3 |
522.12.1 |
31 July 2007 |
Public beta. Latest security updates. |
| 3.0.4 |
523.10 |
Mac OS X v10.4-10.5 |
26 October 2007 |
Officially released with Mac OS X v10.5 out of beta. Includes the ability to re-arrange tabs by dragging, improved web standards support, the ability to display SVG images, and integration with the Dashboard, allowing users to create widgets from ordinary web pages. For web developers, Safari 3 includes a new "Web Inspector" similar to the DOM Inspector extension for Mozilla Firefox. |
| 14 November 2007 |
Officially released for Mac OS X v10.4.11. |
| 3.1 |
525.13 |
18 March 2008 |
Introduces support for CSS Web fonts and animations and improves support for SVG and HTML5 media. Performance improvements. |
| 3.1.1 |
525.17 |
16 April 2008 |
Improved stability and added security updates. |
| 525.20 |
28 May 2008 |
Officially released with Mac OS X v10.5.3. |
| 3.1.2 |
525.21 |
30 June 2008 |
Officially released with Mac OS X v10.5.4. |
| 3.2 |
525.26 |
13 November 2008 |
Added phishing detection, Extended Validation Certificate support, security fixes. |
| 3.2.1 |
525.27 |
24 November 2008 |
Stability improvements. |
| 3.2.3 |
525.28 |
12 May 2009 |
Officially released with Mac OS X v.10.5.7. |
| Safari 4 |
4.0 Beta |
526.11.2 |
Mac OS X v10.4-10.6 |
11 June 2008 |
First developer seed. Includes SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter. Adds ability to save webpages as standalone web applications. Passes Acid3 test. |
| 528.16 |
24 February 2009 |
Version 4 Public Beta. Added features include a "Top Sites" tool that tracks the user's most recently viewed pages, and notifies the user of content updates; Cover Flow support for history and bookmarks; and full history search. A new, radically redesigned UI, with the tabs now on top, has been implemented. The new Nitro engine (previously code named SquirrelFish Extreme) renders JavaScript 4.2 times faster than the previous release of Safari according to Apple test reports. A newly redesigned set of Developer Tools, Auto-Detect of Google searches and websites, and full page zooming have also been added.[2] The "save page as standalone web applications" feature from the first developer preview of Safari 4 has been removed. The full feature list on Apple's website describes the other 150 new features of Safari 4.[3] |
| 528.17 |
12 May 2009 |
Public beta. Latest security updates. |
| 4.0 |
530.17 |
8 June 2009 |
Stable release, officially released at WWDC. Tabs, which were located in the title bar in 4.0 beta releases, have been returned to their original location under the bookmarks bar. |
| 4.0.1 |
530.18 |
17 June 2009 |
Improved compatibility with iPhoto '09. |
| 4.0.2 |
530.19 |
8 July 2009 |
Improves stability of Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes. Officially released with Mac OS X 10.5.8 on August 5, 2009. |
| 4.0.3 |
531.9 |
11 August 2009 |
Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML5 video tag. Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com. Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color. |
| 4.0.4 |
531.21.10 |
11 November 2009 |
Improves JavaScript and Full History Search performance. Improves stability of third-party plug-ins, search field, and Yahoo! Mail. Adds latest security fixes. |
| 4.0.5 |
531.22.7 |
11 March 2010 |
Improves Top Sites performance. Improves stability for third-party plug-ins and websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics. Fixes issues that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers and prevented some iWork.com users from commenting on documents. |
| 4.1 |
533.16 |
Mac OS X v10.4 |
7 June 2010 |
Improves performance of JavaScript, Top Sites, and trackpad pinch gestures. Adds faster page loading with DNS prefetching and improved page caching, and Bing search option in the Search Field. Improves support for HTML5, auto-complete in the Smart Address Field, tabbed browsing, Full History Search, Private Browsing, protection from cross-site scripting with XSS auditing, support for web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation, and developer tools. Improves performance and stability when pasting text into text fields in webpages, auto-complete functions, PDF handling, and transferring images from Safari to iPhoto, when using Facebook and eMusic. Improves reliability of authentication to Windows IIS. Fixes an issue that prevented some users from dragging files when logged into etrade.com. |
| 4.1.1 |
533.17.8 |
28 July 2010 |
More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field and timing for CSS animations. Adds better stability when scrolling through MobileMe Mail. Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems, an issue that prevented Safari from launching on systems with network home directories, an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image, an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on Facebook, Crate and Barrel, and other sites when using Flash 10.1, an issue that prevented boarding passes from American Airlines from printing correctly, an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers, and an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages. |
| 4.1.2 |
|
7 September 2010 |
Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms. |
| 4.1.3 |
|
18 November 2010 |
Improves accuracy of Top Sites and Top Hit results in the address bar. Fixes an issue with Flash 10.1 that caused overlapping of webpage content. Improves reliability of pop-up blocking. Improves stability of typing in text fields on netflix.com and facebook.com. Improves stability of VoiceOver. |
| Safari 5 |
5.0 |
533.16 |
Mac OS X v10.5 - 10.6 |
7 June 2010 |
Added new features including Safari Reader, Bing Search, and Safari Development Tools. Improves JavaScript performance, page caching, and DNS prefetching. Improves support for HTML5. Other improvements and features include smarter address field, tabs settings, search history with date, Top Sites/history button, private browsing icon, XSS auditor, and the return of the address bar loading status indicator. Included in the Mac OS X v10.6.4 update. |
| 5.0.1 |
533.17.8 |
28 July 2010 |
Added a new feature: Safari Extensions. Provides more accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field and timing for CSS animations. Adds better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut and scrolling through MobileMe Mail. Fixes display of multipage articles from Rolling Stone in Safari Reader. Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems, an issue that prevented Safari from launching on Leopard systems with network home directories, an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image, an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on Facebook, Crate and Barrel, and other sites when using Flash 10.1, an issue that prevented boarding passes from American Airlines from printing correctly, an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers, and an issue that could cause VoiceOver to misidentify elements of webpages. |
| 5.0.2 |
533.18.5 |
7 September 2010 |
Fixes issues that prevented submission of web forms, fixes issues that caused incorrect displaying of content in Google Images with Flash Player 10.1 installed, and establishes encrypted and authenticated connection to Safari Extensions Gallery. |
| 5.0.3 |
533.19.4 |
18 November 2010 |
Improves accuracy of Top Sites, and Top Hit results in address bar. Fixes an issue with Flash 10.1 that caused overlapping of webpage content. Improves reliability of pop-up blocking. Improves stability of typing in text fields on Netflix and Facebook. Improves stability of JavaScript extensions. Improves stability of VoiceOver. |
| 5.0.4 |
533.20.27 |
9 March 2011 |
Improves stability for webpages with multiple plug-in content. Improves compatibility with webpages with image reflections and transition effects. Fixes an issue that caused webpages to print with incorrect layouts. Fixes an issue that caused webpages with plug-in content to display incorrectly. Fixes an issue that caused the screen saver to appear while a video is playing. Improves compatibility with VoiceOver on webpages with text input areas and lists with selectable items. Improves stability when using VoiceOver. |
| 5.0.5 |
533.21.1 |
14 April 2011 |
Security update. |
| 5.0.6 |
533.22.3 |
Mac OS X v10.5 |
20 July 2011 |
Stability improvements for web applications that use WebSocket with certain proxy configurations. Improvements to the appearance and layout of text with HTML5 ruby annotations. A fix for an issue that could cause elements in frames to appear in the wrong place on Pandora.com and other websites. |
| 5.1 |
534.48.3 |
Mac OS X v10.6 - 10.7 |
Bundled with Mac OS X v10.7. New features include Reading List for managing webpages and links, new process architecture for improved stability and responsiveness, Resume for launching windows from a previous browsing session, improved privacy settings, Private AutoFill, additional text search controls, and the ability to drag and drop items from the Downloads window. Introduces support for full-screen webpages, media caching with the HTML5 application cache, MathML, Web Open Font Format, CSS3 auto-hyphenation, CSS3 vertical text, CSS3 text emphasis, Window.onError, and formatted XML files. Adds new Extensions APIs, including support for popovers, menus, new event classes, and interaction with Safari Reader. |
| 5.1.1 |
534.51.22 |
12 October 2011 |
Bundled with Mac OS X v10.7.2. Adds support for iCloud syncing of bookmarks and Reading List. Improves JavaScript performance. Contains improvements to performance, stability, usability, compatibility, accessibility, and security. |
| 5.1.2 |
534.52.7 |
29 November 2011 |
Improves stability. Addresses issues with hangs, excessive memory usage, and white flashes within webpages. Allows PDFs to be displayed within web content. |
| Major version |
Minor version |
WebKit version |
Operating System |
Release date |
Features |
| Safari 3 |
3.0 |
522.11.3 |
Windows XP, Vista |
11 June 2007 |
Public beta, first release for Windows XP and Windows Vista (not officially supported on Windows 2000). Announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Feature parity with Mac OS X version. |
| 3.0.1 |
522.12.2 |
13 June 2007 |
Public beta, second release for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Major security updates. |
| 3.0.2 |
522.13.1 |
22 June 2007 |
Public beta, third release for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Security updates. |
| 3.0.3 |
522.15.5 |
1 August 2007 |
Public beta, fourth Windows release. Includes major stability enhancements, including a fix for a memory leak. |
| 3.0.4 |
523.12.9 |
14 November 2007 |
Public beta, fifth Windows release. Fixes many UI behavior issues, though issues still remain. Ends unofficial support for Windows 2000 (will not run). Added many keyboard shortcut functions found in most major browsers (for example, switching tabs). |
| 523.13 |
17 December 2007 |
Safari 3 Beta 3.0.4 Security Update: A security update meant to prevent cross-site scripting attacks was applied to the existing release of Safari.[4] |
| 523.15 |
21 December 2007 |
Safari 3 Beta 3.0.4 Security Update v1.1: This update fixes an issue introduced with the previous security update "that may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit when browsing certain websites." |
| 3.1 |
525.13 |
18 March 2008 |
First stable release of Safari for Windows. Introduces support for CSS Web fonts and animations and improves support for SVG and HTML5 media. Performance improvements. Added automatic spell checker for searches. |
| 3.1.1 |
525.17 |
16 April 2008 |
Improved stability and added security updates. |
| 3.1.2 |
525.21 |
19 June 2008 |
Improved stability and added security updates. |
| 3.2 |
525.26.13 |
13 November 2008 |
Added phishing detection, Extended Validation Certificate support, security fixes. |
| 3.2.1 |
525.27.1 |
24 November 2008 |
Stability improvements. |
| 3.2.2 |
525.28.1 |
12 February 2009 |
Security updates. |
| 3.2.3 |
525.29.1 |
12 May 2009 |
Security updates. |
| Safari 4 |
4.0 |
526.12.2 |
11 June 2008 |
First developer seed. Includes SquirrelFish JavaScript interpreter. Adds ability to save webpages as standalone web applications. Passes Acid3 test. Added optional Windows native font rendering. |
| 528.1.1 |
22 August 2008 |
Second developer seed. New developer menu, redesigned Web Inspector, and JavaScript developer tools. Also includes elements from the new Webkit versions, such as support for new CSS features, as well as improved support for HTML5 in general.[5] |
| 528.16 |
24 February 2009 |
Version 4 Public Beta. Added features include a "Top Sites" tool that tracks the user's most recently viewed pages, and notifies the user of content updates; Cover Flow support for history and bookmarks; and full history search. A new, radically redesigned UI, with the tabs now on top, has been implemented. The new Nitro engine (previously code named SquirrelFish Extreme) renders JavaScript 4.2 times faster than the previous release of Safari according to Apple test reports. A newly redesigned set of Developer Tools, Auto-Detect of Google searches and websites, and full page zooming have also been added. The "save page as standalone web applications" feature from the first developer preview of Safari 4 has been removed. Look and feel more native to the Windows UI. Apple font smoothing is now an option; Safari can be configured to adhere to the default Windows system font smoothing setting. The full feature list on Apple's website describes the other 150 new features of Safari 4. |
| 528.17 |
12 May 2009 |
Public beta. Latest security updates. |
| 4.0.1 |
530.17 |
8 June 2009 |
Stable release, officially released at WWDC. Tabs, which were located in the title bar in 4.0 beta releases, have been returned to their original location under the bookmarks bar. |
| 4.0.2 |
530.19.1 |
8 July 2009 |
Improves stability of Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes. |
| 4.0.3 |
531.9.1 |
Windows XP, Vista, 7 |
11 August 2009 |
Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML5 video tag. Fixes an issue that prevented some users from logging into iWork.com. Fixes an issue that could cause web content to be displayed in greyscale instead of color. |
| 4.0.4 |
531.21.10 |
11 November 2009 |
Improves JavaScript and Full History Search performance. Improves stability of third-party plug-ins, search field, and Yahoo! Mail. Adds latest security fixes. |
| 4.0.5 |
531.22.7 |
11 March 2010 |
Improves Top Sites performance. Improves stability for third-party plug-ins and websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics. Fixes issues that prevented Safari from changing settings on some Linksys routers and prevented some iWork.com users from commenting on documents. |
| Safari 5 |
5.0 |
533.16 |
7 June 2010 |
Added new features including Safari Reader, Bing Search, and Safari Development Tools. Improves JavaScript performance, page caching, and DNS prefetching. Improves support for HTML5. Other improvements and features include smarter address field, tabs settings, search history with date, Top Sites/history button, private browsing icon, XSS auditor, and hardware acceleration. |
| 5.0.1 |
533.17.8 |
28 July 2010 |
Added a new feature: Safari Extensions. Provides more accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field and timing for CSS animations. Adds better stability when using the Safari Reader keyboard shortcut and scrolling through MobileMe Mail. Fixes display of multipage articles from Rolling Stone in Safari Reader. Fixes an issue that prevented Google Wave and other websites using JavaScript encryption libraries from working correctly on 32-bit systems, an issue that could cause borders on YouTube thumbnails to disappear when hovering over the thumbnail image, an issue that could cause Flash content to overlap with other content on Facebook, Crate and Barrel, and other sites when using Flash 10.1, an issue that prevented boarding passes from American Airlines from printing correctly, and an issue that could cause DNS prefetching requests to overburden certain routers. |
| 5.0.2 |
533.18.5 |
7 September 2010 |
Fixes issues that prevented submission of web forms, fixes issues that caused incorrect displaying of content in Google Images with Flash Player 10.1 installed, and establishes encrypted and authenticated connection to Safari Extensions Gallery. |
| 5.0.3 |
533.19.4 |
18 November 2010 |
Improves accuracy of Top Sites, and Top Hit results in address bar. Fixes an issue with Flash 10.1 that caused overlapping webpage content. Improves reliability of pop-up blocking. Fixes an issue affecting playback of videos with rotations or flips. Improves reliability when typing into text fields on Netflix and Facebook. Improves stability with JavaScript extensions and using screen readers. |
| 5.0.4 |
533.20.27 |
9 March 2011 |
Improves compatibility with webpages with transition effects. Fixes an issue that caused webpages to print with incorrect layouts. Fixes an issue that prevented HTML5 video from playing on YouTube. Fixes an issue that caused content to display incorrectly on webpages with plug-ins. |
| 5.0.5 |
533.21.1 |
14 April 2011 |
Security update. |
| 5.1 |
534.50 |
20 July 2011 |
Introduces support for full-screen webpages, media caching, MathML, Web Open Font Format, CSS3 Auto-hyphenation, CSS3 Vertical Text, and CSS3 Text Emphasis. Extension support for popovers, menus, new event classes, and Reader interaction. |
| 5.1.1 |
534.51.22 |
12 October 2011 |
Adds support for iCloud syncing of bookmarks and Reading List. Improves JavaScript performance. Contains improvements to performance, stability, usability, compatibility, accessibility, and security. |
| 5.1.2 |
534.52.7 |
29 November 2011 |
Improves stability. Addresses issues with hangs, excessive memory usage, and white flashes within webpages. Allows PDFs to be displayed within web content. |
