selenium downloads- Why does Selenium give Safari 11's version as 13605?

Question

I'm using BrowserStack for Selenium testing and sending this set of capabilities for testing with Safari 11:

os=OS X

os_version=High Sierra

browser=Safari

browser_version=11

But when I check the browser properties in Java code...

System.out.println("Browser is: " + driver.getCapabilities().getBrowserName());

System.out.println("Version is: " + driver.getCapabilities().getVersion());

System.out.println("Platform is: " + driver.getCapabilities().getPlatform());

I get this:

Browser is: safari

Version is: 13605.3.8

Platform is: MAC

Other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and IE give me the kinds of version numbers I'd expect. So does Safari 12: 12.1.1.

So where does this 13605 for Safari 11 come from?

Answer 1

As you are using Safari v11 and driver.getCapabilities().getVersion() is returning 13605.3.8 it seems to be a bug.

As per MacUpdate one of the past version of Safari was:

Version 12.0, released Sep 18, 2018

and the previous version to it was:

Version 11.1.2: (13605.3.8)

Of coarse getVersion() should have extracted 11.1.2