<story><title>Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m45t3r</author><text>This makes sense since it should avoid two issues:&lt;p&gt;- Sites that try to detect mobile by looking at &amp;quot;ARM&amp;quot; in user-agent string&lt;p&gt;- Sites that try to parse the macOS minor version for some reason and would be confused to see something like &amp;quot;11_0&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;BTW, user-agent is a hell anyway. Just looking at this user-agent that OP posted, macOS still identifies itself as &amp;quot;Mac OS X&amp;quot;, still is based on Mozilla&amp;#x2F;5.0(!), still identifies itself as KHTML enginee (compatible with Gecko), and so on...</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>The User-Agent string for Big Sur&amp;#x27;s Safari running on Apple Silicon (ARM) still says &amp;quot;Mac OS X 10_16&amp;quot; and, curiously, claims to be &amp;quot;Intel&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Mozilla&amp;#x2F;5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit&amp;#x2F;605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version&amp;#x2F;14.0 Safari&amp;#x2F;605.1.15&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>Oh my god can we please kill the user agent string already?  Every time any new combination of browser&amp;#x2F;os&amp;#x2F;platform is created it claims that it&amp;#x27;s as some other user agent from an established browser because sites are lazy and abuse user agent string to determine capability.  Meaning they have long lost all meaning and we should just dump them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>m45t3r</author><text>This makes sense since it should avoid two issues:&lt;p&gt;- Sites that try to detect mobile by looking at &amp;quot;ARM&amp;quot; in user-agent string&lt;p&gt;- Sites that try to parse the macOS minor version for some reason and would be confused to see something like &amp;quot;11_0&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;BTW, user-agent is a hell anyway. Just looking at this user-agent that OP posted, macOS still identifies itself as &amp;quot;Mac OS X&amp;quot;, still is based on Mozilla&amp;#x2F;5.0(!), still identifies itself as KHTML enginee (compatible with Gecko), and so on...</text></item><item><author>cpeterso</author><text>The User-Agent string for Big Sur&amp;#x27;s Safari running on Apple Silicon (ARM) still says &amp;quot;Mac OS X 10_16&amp;quot; and, curiously, claims to be &amp;quot;Intel&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Mozilla&amp;#x2F;5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit&amp;#x2F;605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version&amp;#x2F;14.0 Safari&amp;#x2F;605.1.15&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>empyrical</author><text>Also, whether a system is ARM or Intel could be used as another bit of entropy for fingerprinting.</text></comment>