Friday, 26 February, 2021 UTC


Summary

Safari Technology Preview Release 121 is now available for download for macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update in the Software Update pane of System Preferences on macOS.
This release covers WebKit revisions 271794-272845.

Web Inspector

  • Sources
    • Collapsed blackboxed call frames in the Call Stack section (r272371)

CSS

  • Added support for aspect-ratio on grid items (r272307)
  • Added support for logical variants of scroll-padding and scroll-margin (r272035)
  • Added support for color(a98-rgb ...), color(prophoto-rgb ...), color(rec2020 ...), color(xyz ...), hwb() as part of CSS Color 4 (r271992, r272125, r272123, r272311, r272344)
  • Added support for percentages when parsing color(srgb ...) and color(display-p3 ...) per-spec (r271866)
  • Changed sRGB to XYZ conversion matrix values to match values in the latest spec (r272498)
  • Fixed max-height percentages that are wrongly resolved for replaced grid items (r272309)
  • Fixed grid item to fill the grid area for stretch or normal self alignment (r272308)
  • Fixed animation of rotate or scale property to correctly account for static translate property (r272201)
  • Fixed font-stretch to apply to system-ui (r272073)
  • Fixed the nested grid container which has a replaced item with max-height incorrectly getting width(0px) (r272338, r272711)
  • Implemented scroll-snap-stop for scroll snapping (r272610)
  • Handled aspect-ratio: auto m/n for replaced elements (r272360)
  • Handled min-width: auto or min-height: auto for aspect-ratio (r272718)
  • Handled zero aspect-ratio width or height (r271948)
  • Made auto && <ratio> use content box-sizing (r272569)

GPU Process

  • Enabled audio capture in GPUProcess by default (r272735)
  • Enabled audio capture for speech recognition in GPUProcess (r272434)
  • Enabled GPU WebRTC codecs in GPUProcess by default on macOS (r272496)
  • Enabled video capture in GPUProcess by default on macOS (r272810)
  • Fixed <audio> not loading when the URL ends with .php causing some tests to time out (r272750)
  • Fixed implementation of WebGL power preference and discrete/internal GPU selection with ANGLE (r271880)

Media

  • Added intermediate volume icon states between “mute” and “max” (r272375)
  • Changed media controls to show the total duration, only switching to time remaining when clicked (r272373)
  • Changed MediaStream-backed video elements to not compute the mediaType based on track muted states (r272583)
  • Connected MediaSession with MediaRemote and NowPlaying (r272445, r272589)
  • Fixed sound on YouTube after switching back to foreground (r272829)
  • Fixed playback of WebM/Opus generated from Chrome MediaRecorder (r272822)
  • Fixed Picture-in-Picture video pauses when scrolling on Twitter (r271870)
  • Updated media controls time scrubber styles (r272352, r272438)
  • Updated media controls to use new SF Symbols (r272339)

Web API

  • Fixed the return key binding for date inputs conflicting with pressing return to submit a form (r272495
  • Fixed selecting a date on datetime-local inputs unexpectedly adding second and millisecond fields (r272368)
  • Fixed rendering a pattern with an SVG image (r272549)
  • Forbid “|” in URL hosts (r271899)
  • Reduced the overhead of HTMLDocumentParser in innerHTML setter (r272622)

JavaScript

  • Added @ in Error#stack even if function name does not exist (r272139)
  • Added Atomics support for BigInt64Array and BigUint64Array behind a runtime flag (JSC_useSharedArrayBuffer=1) (r272341)
  • Adjusted properties order of host JS functions (r272099)
  • Changed Object.assign to throw for property creation on non-extensible target (r272411)
  • Handled milliseconds in Date’s timezone without floating point rounding (r272127)
  • Implemented BigInt64Array and BigUint64Array (r272170, r272215)
  • Implemented private methods behind flag (JSC_usePrivateMethods=1)(r272580)
  • Made JSON.parse faster by using table for fast string parsing (r272570)

WebAssembly

  • Implemented WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming and WebAssembly.compileStreaming (r271993)
  • Implemented streaming compilation/instantiation for the Blob type (r272221)
  • Updated WebAssembly.Global to support Funcref and Externref (r272071, r272081, r272119)
  • Enabled Wasm bulk-memory and reference-types (r272074)

Accessibility

  • Exposed focusable elements even if the element or ancestor has aria-hidden=true (r272390)
  • Fixed long narrow tables to not be made into data tables unnecessarily (r272024)

Speech Recognition

  • Used the user media permission prompt for Speech Recognition (r272165)