Updates the version provided via the Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version on Windows to provide a reasonable level of fidelity to allow sites to identify meaningful Windows platform changes. This aligns with the current definition in the proposal in the UA Client Hints WICG repo. This enables sites to deliver appropriate binary executables and help content specific to that OS version.

Motivation

This enables sites to deliver appropriate binary executables and help content specific to that OS version. The current UA string and existing Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version implementation provides the "major" and "minor" version Windows components. However, as of Windows 10, Windows generally doesn't increase either of these numbers across significant releases. Notably, Windows 11 does not increase either of these numbers. The updated UA Client Hints proposal text specifies that the value on Windows should instead be derived based on the Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract version. This version revises when the set of APIs exposed on Windows changes in a significant way while not being particularly identifying (e.g. a typical security update will not revise it). A table of value mappings to Windows releases can be seen in the UA Client Hints' repo issue 220.

Specification

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Status in Chromium

Privacy


Enabled by default (tracking bug)

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

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https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints/commit/5c1be8772eaf3b823c3c07d6baa6d7348a77627d

Last updated on 2022-01-14