[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 1.9.1 released!

Mon Apr 30 08:05:03 PDT 2012

WebKitGTK+ 1.9.1 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/webkit-1.9.1.tar.xz (8.7MB)
   md5sum: fe98e463dda1a2dc863c141bc5037fde
   sha256sum: fa0bf78743b5efbbb55db807ace49c84a3e8090d9bd57db1a616b986a883a93a

This is the first development release leading toward 1.10.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 1.9.1 release?
===========================================

  - Geolocation support is built by default now. Use
    --disable-geolocation during build to disable it.
  - LINGUAS environment variable is honored now.
  - Throttle DNS prefetching to avoid overloading the resolver.
  - Remove defunct WebInspector GSettings mapping.
  - Fix a crash when emitting signals with a GError parameter when
    using GObject Introspection.
  - Fix flickering during scrolling and resizing in newer versions of
    GTK+.
  - Fix a bug where the Content-Length header was not sent for certain
    XMLHttpRequests.
  - Fix a WebProcess segmentation fault related to clipboard handling.
  - Fix a repainting error that occurred during interior frame
    scrolling.
  - Fix a crash when WebKitWebView is created without a WebContext.
  - Fix a crash that could occur during synchronous XMLHttpRequests.
  - Fix rendering of combobox / menulist buttons that do not have
    separators.
  - Fix the rendering of toggle buttons with larger-than-default
    widths and heights with the Adwaita theme.
  - Fix misrendering of text shadow extents in some situations.
  - Fix a crash when closing browser with inspector window opened.
  - Now interpret plugin metadata as UTF-8.
  - Fix rendering of GtkWidgets embedded on WebKitWebView.
  - Web content (except plugins) should no longer steal focus from
    other GTK+ widgets.
  - WebKit will try to use the default libsoup proxy resolver
    automatically.
  - Performance improvements in WebKitWebView by avoiding doing a lot
    of work in size_allocate when the view is not mapped.
  - Web Timing is now enabled.
  - Add support for smooth scrolling.
  - Implement unicode submenu items.
  - FFTFrame implementation in GStreamer backend.
  - More work on GStreamer 0.11 support.
  - Add support for windowed plugins in WebKit2.
  - Add full printing support to WebKit2.
  - Add a new favicon database API that corrects the problems of the
    old one.
  - Add WebKitWebView::context-menu signal to allow applications to
    handle its own context menu. WebKitWebView::populate-popup signal
    and default-context setting are now deprecated.
  - Well known names for menu items in the default context menu are
    now exposed in an enumeration.
  - Add entering/leaving fullscreen signals to WebKit API.
  - Add enable-webaudio setting to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add support for registering custom uri schemes in WebKit2.
  - Add WebKitWebView::mouse-target-changed signal to WebKit2 GTK+
    API.
  - Add enter/leave fullscreen signals to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add find API to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Use a single signal for script dialogs in WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add cookies API to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add webkit_print_operation_print() to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add resources API to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add support for Response policy decisions to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add javascript clipboard functionality settings to WebKit2 GTK+
    API.
  - Add cut, copy and paste methods to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add zoom-text-only setting to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add webkit_web_view_run_javascript() to WebKit2 GTK+ API.

What is WebKitGTK+?
===================

WebKitGTK+ is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine.
Offering WebKit's full functionality through a set of GObject-based
APIs, it is suitable for projects requiring any kind of web
integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web
browsers.

Requirements
============

gtk+ >= 2.10
gail >= 1.8
glib >= 2.32.0
libsoup >= 2.37.92
cairo >= 1.10
libxml >= 2.6
fontconfig >= 2.4
FreeType2 >= 9.0

Depending on your configuration options WebKitGTK+ may also depend on:

gtk+ >= 3.4.0
gail >= 3.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
SQLite >= 3.0
gstreamer >= 0.10
gstreamer-plugin-base >= 0.10.30
enchant >= 0.22
Clutter >= 1.8.2
Clutter GTK+ >= 1.0.2

More information
================

If you want to know more about the project or get in touch with us
you may:

- Visit our website at http://www.webkitgtk.org, or the upstream
  site at http://www.webkit.org. People interested in contributing
  should read: http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html.

- Browse the bug list at http://bugs.webkit.org, WebKitGTK+ bugs are
  typically prefixed by "[GTK]." A bug report with a minimal,
  reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch.

- Join the #webkit and #webkitgtk+ IRC channels at irc.freenode.net.

- Subscribe to the WebKitGTK+ mailing list,
  http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk, or the
  WebKit's development mailing list,
  http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev

Thanks
======

Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they
are far too many to list!

The WebKitGTK+ team,
April 30, 2012
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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