[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 1.7.92 released

Martin Robinson mrobinson at webkit.org
Mon Mar 19 22:57:09 PDT 2012


WebKitGTK+ 1.7.92 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/webkit-1.7.92.tar.xz (7.7MB)
  md5sum: 520a421566584ea56552ee314de0b671
  sha256sum: b5f7b9eef333609d457a0e6b335ff8d9e31c92459019b8aa80e1e24767601bb0

This is the second pre-release leading to the 1.8 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 1.7.92 release?
============================================

 - Add a new favicon database API that corrects the problems of the old one.
 - Fix rendering of combobox / menulist buttons that do not have separators.
 - Fix misrendering of text shadow extents in some situations.
 - Fix 'make check' for source trees without an internal jhbuild.
 - Miscellaneous build fixes.

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 >= 2.31.2
libsoup >= 2.37.2.1
cairo >= 1.10
libxml >= 2.6
fontconfig >= 2.4
FreeType2 >= 9.0

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

gtk+ >= 3.0
gail >= 3.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
SQLite >= 3.0
gstreamer >= 0.10
gstreamer-plugin-base >= 0.10.30
enchant >= 0.22

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,
March 19, 2012


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