Safari 5 announced... prematurely? And now it's official.

It got no attention in Steve's WWDC keynote, and it's not showing up in Software Update as of yet, but according to an Apple press release, Safari 5 is out for release today. Many analysts expected Apple to discuss Safari 5 (among other hardware) during the keynote, but iPhone 4 and iOS 4 got all the attention.

The press release details several of the new features in Safari 5, including updates to HTML 5 features, the Nitro JavaScript engine, and more. Overall, Safari 5 is supposed to have 30% greater performance than Safari 4, and it will also include Bing as an optional search engine. More info on the features is available not only in the press release itself, but also a leak from earlier this week.

We attempted to confirm the release with Apple PR directly, but we haven't heard back. Since this isn't showing up on apple.com/pr, and as of yet it hasn't been released to Software Update, it's understandable that the PR Newswire release might be fishy to some. However, I used to work for PR Newswire, and I can say with 100% confidence that this release is legitimate; PR Newswire's releases come directly from the companies themselves.

We should see Safari 5 officially released sometime today.

Update: The press release has been pulled from PR Newswire. Based on my experience there, most likely this means the release was published prematurely. It will most likely go back up in the next few hours, around the time it was originally intended to be published. Meanwhile, the text of the press release is still viewable on Engadget.

Update 2: It's live! Here's the link.

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Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apple-releases-safar…

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Don

After installing Safari 5 on my Windows XP laptop, it crashes every time I try to manually type in a URL on the address bar. i want to go back to Safari 4!

June 10 2010 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Don

Announced prematurely? NO, RELEASED PREMATURELY!!

After installing Safari 5 on my Windows XP laptop, it crashes every time I try to manually type in a URL on the address bar. i want to go back to Safari 4 !

June 10 2010 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

makesense

having problems with videos, including youtube

June 08 2010 at 11:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Randy

I hate to appear stupid, but how does one upgrade Safari on an iPad?

June 08 2010 at 10:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon Hendry

I'm not enjoying one change. url completion in the url field now matches against title text, not just URL.

So, if I start typing "weather" it doesn't match "weather.com", it matches "weather, Entertainment, and Video News" from CNN.com's title text.

Which is, frankly, kinda stupid.

June 08 2010 at 10:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ian

Works fine on all 5 Macs in our home...no hangs, no beach balls...the "reader" feature is very nice...much easier to read articles...

June 08 2010 at 6:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rembert

Safari 5 on 10.6.3: First try resulted in system freeze while loading html5test.com. Next try: flawless. Had to update 1password to 3.2.1 (those guys at Agile were really quick with updating their software - great job).

Did some testing on html5test.com, expecting Safari 5 to be the clear winner. Well, close. But Chrome actually won my little contest. Max score is 160. The test results:

Safari 5: 136
Chrome 6.0.422 dev: 142
Firefox 3.6.3: 101
Camino 2.0.3: 31
Opera 10.5: 49

June 08 2010 at 5:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matijs

DO NOT DOWNLOAD SAFARI 5, it constantly crashes on windows 7!!

June 08 2010 at 4:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott

FYI, Netflix 'Watch Instantly' doesn't seem to work with Safari 5.

June 07 2010 at 11:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Buzz

Tastes great. Less filling.

June 07 2010 at 10:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply