A Developer Preview of the upcoming Safari 5.1 has made its way into the hands of developers through the Safari Dev Center yesterday. The final release of the new browser will be included with OS X Lion when it releases this fall and will be accompanied by a Windows version as well. Among the browser’s new features, Safari 5.1 will support…

Lost amongst the WWDC Keynote and iPhone 4 announcements yesterday was Apple’s release of Safari 5. This updated version of Apple’s web browser features the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field.

Reports of a new security issue in both the Mac and Windows versions of Safari are stating that there is a “hole” in how Safari handles RSS feeds, which could potentially allow an attacker to capture a user’s personal information, cookies, passwords, etc. through a malicious web page. The discovery of this new vulnerability can be credited to Brain Mastenbrook, who is known for discovering many previous vulnerabilities in Mac OS X.