Safari 17.2 Standalone Installer Download Links

Hey, thanks for this. I have a question regarding Safari updates - you mentioned that you need to update to macOS 14.2 to get Safari 17.2, but for Safari 17.1, I was able to get the update for it while on macOS Ventura, I didn't need to update to Sonoma. Do you know what the difference is and why they do one way versus the other?

Also, am I able to install and use one of these links on macOS 14.1? 

@bazzimoe3 Because Apple wants to do it that way. They don't make standalone Safari updaters available for the current major version of macOS. When macOS Ventura was the major version any update to Safari was part of a full macOS, or Rapid Security Response, update. Now that macOS Sonoma is the current major release you have to install macOS 14.2 to get Safari 17.2 on Sonoma, and there is a standalone updater for macOS Ventura.

I just dealt with this and your mileage may vary but no. Using the Ventura installers caused any computer that was running Sonoma to load every webpage as a black screen. The only way to fix it that I found was to do a non destructive OS install through recovery.

I found this out the hard way trying to do some Patch Management through Jamf. Most of my fleet isn't on Sonoma yet but there are handful that it went out to.

@sdagley how did you get these links?

Is there a location that you get them from or what is the best way to get it.

@SeetendraPanda Apple publishes a catalog for their Software Update Service. Here's the link for the current catalog that includes updates up to macOS Sonoma: https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-14-13-12-10.16-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

I use a tool named SUS Inspector (https://github.com/hjuutilainen/sus-inspector) that provides a GUI for inspecting the catalog contents.