{"id":73128,"date":"2014-09-18T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=73128"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:27:59","slug":"apple-releases-os-x-mavericks-10-9-5-and-new-version-of-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-releases-os-x-mavericks-10-9-5-and-new-version-of-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 and new version of Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A minor update to <a title=\"OS X Mavericks\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-os-x-10-9-mavericks\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OS X Mavericks<\/a> is out today. Version <strong>10.9.5<\/strong> brings a few <strong>security updates and bug fixes<\/strong> for a small subset of users having problems with connecting to virtual private networks (VPN) and Bluetooth issues.<\/p>\n<p>The update also brings a new version of <a title=\"Safari for Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/safari.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safari<\/a>, bringing security fixes to the browser. The updated browser changes the default search engine to the more secure <strong>DuckDuckGo<\/strong> service. The search engine uses Yahoo and encrypts all connections and does not track its users, unlike Google.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the Safari and OS X Mavericks update by opening the <strong>Mac App Store<\/strong> and checking the <em>Updates<\/em> tab.<\/p>\n<p>This will likely be the last update to OS X Mavericks before the launch of <a title=\"OS X Yosemite announced\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/os-x-yosemite-announced-coming-fall-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OS X Yosemite<\/a>, which is expected soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Apple Support\" href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT6400?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Links<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"7 questions Siri can (and can't) answer in iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/7-questions-siri-can-and-cant-answer-in-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7 questions Siri can (and can&#8217;t) answer in iOS 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat fix security vulnerability\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/updates-for-adobe-reader-and-acrobat-fix-security-vulnerability\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat fix security vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"iCloud increases security with two-factor authentication\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/icloud-gets-more-secure-with-two-factor-authentication\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iCloud increases security with two-factor authentication<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple just made it easy to remove the free U2 album from your iTunes\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-creates-site-to-remove-u2-album-after-user-backlash\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple just made it easy to remove the free U2 album from your iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minor update to OS X Mavericks is out today. Version 10.9.5 brings a few security updates and bug fixes for a small subset of users having problems with connecting to virtual private networks (VPN) and Bluetooth issues. The update also brings a new version of Safari, bringing security fixes to the browser. The updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/apple-releases-os-x-mavericks-10-9-5-and-new-version-of-safari\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 and new version of Safari&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2431],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-73128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsafari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330135,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73128\/revisions\/330135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=73128"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=73128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}