[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 1.9.5 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Mon Jul 16 03:13:37 PDT 2012


WebKitGTK+ 1.9.5 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkit-1.9.5.tar.xz (7.7MB)
   md5sum: 506e8d1e01e7aae92274a8bce8602a5a
   sha256sum: 2709b55693ea09ad0958eb7d9c3870921a8a9d0cf166ca4f85257628b63aa4e0

This is a development release leading toward 1.10.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 1.9.5 release?
===========================================

  - Add API to get HTTPS status to WebKit2 GTK+.
  - Add API to clear the cache to WebKit2 GTK+.
  - Add webkit_cookie_manager_set_persistent_storage() to WebKit2 GTK+
    API.
  - Improve performance of searching in WebKit2.
  - Implement disk cache in WebKit2.
  - Add site specific quirks setting to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add a setting to enable/disable page cache to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add WebKitWebView::context-menu-dismissed signal to WebKit2 GTK+
    API.
  - Add webkit_web_frame_get_dom_document() to WebKit GTK+ API.
  - Use soup_cookie_jar_is_persistent() to set whether cookie is a
    session one or not.
  - Fix recognition of contractions (apostrophes) in spell checker.
  - Fix a crash when showing the context menu in the Web Inspector.
  - WebKitWebView::mouse-target-changed is not emitted when moved
    to/from editable content.
  - Fix inspector detach when inspector was attached by the client in
    WebKit2.
  - Don't show accel labels in WebKit2 context menu items.
  - Cache the video dimensions to not query the video-sink sink-pad
    caps every time.
  - Fix several memory leaks.

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 >= 2.39.2
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,
July 16, 2012
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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