Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2023/18

It is May already. In just a month WWDC23 will give us tons of things to watch, to read and to try. And today we'll go through something interesting too.

And that is it for today. Have a great weekend, have some time for self-education. And we'll be counting days til WWDC :) See you next week!

iOS 16.5 and other platforms get beta 3

Beta 3 is published for iOS/iPadOS 16.5, macOS Ventura 13.4, watchOS 9.5 and tvOS 16.5. Xcode did not get new beta yet.

No notable changes are reported for this beta, except for removal of bitcoin white paper from Preview.app bundle.

Beta download: Operating Systems

Release notes:

References:

Safari Technology Preview 152 is published

Apple publishes new technology preview for Safari.

‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 152 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Accessibility, Rendering, JavaScript, and Web API. 

MacRumors

Download: Safari – Resources

Release notes: Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

Reference: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 152 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Safari Technology Preview 150 is published

Apple continues to refresh Safari Technology Preview with features in upcoming macOS 13 Ventura.

‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 150 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Shadow DOM, JavaScript, Web Animations, Web Share, WebAuthn, Web API, Rendering, and Accessibility. 

MacRumors

Download: Safari – Resources

Release notes: Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

Reference: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 150 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Safari Technology Preview 147 is here

Apple previews new Safari features which will be available in macOS 13 Ventura.

Safari Technology Preview Release 147 is now available for download for macOS Monterey 12.3 or later and macOS Ventura beta. Updates to Safari Technology Preview are no longer available for macOS Big Sur. If you already have Safari Technology Preview installed, you can update in the Software Update pane of System Preferences on macOS Monterey, or System Settings under General → Software Update on macOS Ventura.
Note: Shared Tab Groups and syncing for Tab Groups, Website Settings, and Web Extensions are not enabled in this release.

Apple Developer

Features available for test:

  • Live Text
  • Web Push
  • New web extensions

Download: Safari – Resources

Release notes: Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

Swift for Visual Studio Code extension preview is released

Tim Condon announces first preview release of Swift for VSCode extension.

The highlights of the extension include:

  • Automatic task creation
  • Package dependency view
  • Code completion
  • Jump to definition, peek definition, find all references, symbol search
  • Error annotations and apply suggestions from errors
  • Automatic generation of launch configurations for debugging with CoreLLDB

Swift Forums: Introducing Swift for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Marketplace: Swift

Safari Technology Preview 136 is released

New Technology Preview contains a lot of bug fixes, however, does not highlight any significant visible changes.

Previous Safari Technology Preview allowed to use ProMotion displays on new Macs.

Download: Downloads for Safari

Release Notes: Safari Technology Preview Release Notes

Reference: Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 136 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements