Safari 27.0 Release Notes

The Safari 27.0 release notes are live, it's a big one:

Our Safari release notes have never been as long as they are for this version. The number of features alone rose from 58 to 83 since the first beta in June.

The headline is MCP support. I've been using the Safari MCP all summer via Safari Technology Preview (STP) and it works as advertised. I was able to connect various agents via the MCP and they would happily perform all manner of web browsing activities using Safari. Most of the time I was asking my agent to use Safari for some web development task, but sometimes I used it as an escape hatch for the agent to access some information on my behalf using an account I logged into directly in STP. Now if only I could ask Siri AI to do that for me.

Safari gets a bad rap in the web development community. Some of that reputation is earned as a result of Apple's desire for everything to be app-shaped. Or, more importantly from Apple's perspective, for most things to be distributed through the App Store. "There's an app for that" was simultaneously one of the greatest marketing campaigns of all time, and a poison pill. But I digress.

Safari is an excellent web browser. It's my personal daily driver. I could write a long blog post about the things I would change about Safari. But I could write a much longer post about the things I would change about Chrome or Firefox. It's all trade-offs, all the way down.