Watch for overdue Safari 18.1 updates for Sonoma and Ventura
If your Mac is still running Sonoma or Ventura, and you have already updated it to 14.7.1 or 13.7.1, you might have noticed that neither updated Safari, nor has there been a separate update released yet for Safari 18.1.
According to release notes for Safari 18.1 (20619.2.8), this new version has already been released for Sonoma and Ventura, but as of 1600 GMT on 29 October 2024, there’s still no sign of any separate update, nor was it bundled in the x.7.1 updates.
Sonoma and Ventura had Safari 18 released for them on 16 September 2024, concurrently with Sequoia 15.0. On 3 October 2024, at the same time that Apple released Safari 18.0.1 in Sequoia 15.0.1, it also released Safari 18.0.1 for Sonoma and Ventura, without any CVEs being reported as fixed.
Current versions of Safari read:
- in Sequoia 15.1 – Safari 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.10)
- in Sonoma 14.7.1 – Safari 18.0.1 (19619.1.26.111.11, 19619)
- in Ventura 13.7.1 – Safari 18.0.1 (18619.1.26.111.11, 18619)
leaving the latter two due an update to Safari 18.1, which would ordinarily have been released with the x.7.1 macOS updates, but hasn’t been yet.
Update
As of 2150 on 29 October 2024, both Safari updates are now available through Software Update. Version and build numbers are 18.1 (19619.2.8.111.5, 19619) for Sonoma 14.7.1, and 18.1 (18619.2.8.111.5, 18619) for Ventura 13.7.1, and Apple lists the CVEs they address in this note.