New versions available for Mountain Lion and Mavericks too
Last week, Apple deployed and then swiftly pulled a trio of Safari updates meant to address security issues on three particular OS X versions and also aimed at enhancing the browser’s functionality through various tweaks.
The updates in question, released on December 3, were Safari 8.0.1 for OS X Yosemite, Safari 7.1.1 for OS X Mavericks, and Safari 6.2.1 for OS X Mountain Lion. For reasons stated in today’s release notes, Apple decided to pull those updates, leaving customers vulnerable to hacking attacks (albeit not serious ones).
Near-identical tweaks and fixes
Despite carrying different version numbers, today’s Safari updates are essentially just re-released versions of last week’s patches that aimed to close security holes and improve some aspects in the Yosemite version of the browser.
As such, the release notes accompanying the updates, specifically the one targeting OS X 10.10 customers, are identical, with one small exception: the reason why Apple had to pull last week’s updates in the first place.
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