[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 2.1.4 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Mon Aug 12 00:02:17 PDT 2013


WebKitGTK+ 2.1.4 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.1.4.tar.xz (9.0MB)
   md5sum: af27880847b5f7509da150e642cefdc4
   sha256sum: ffc3631df9d10a464e016f13dc84bf3ddded194f1b030371b6e6dd47c2b8a14e

This is a development release leading toward 2.2 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.1.4 release?
===========================================

  - Add WebKitWebView::authenticate signal to WebKit2 GTK API.
  - Expose KeyboardEvent in GObject DOM bindings.
  - Implement attributesOfChildren() for AccessibilityUIElement.
  - Implement allAttributes() for AccessibilityUIElement.
  - Fix issues with edge cases when getting offsets for a text range
    in AtkText.
  - Remote inspector server now notifies about errors when loading
    resources.
  - Disable HTTP request "Accept-Encoding:" header field on gstreamer
    source element to avoid receiving the wrong size when retrieving
    data.
  - Fix the final position when receiving several seek calls in a row,
    in GStreamer media backend.
  - When rendering accelerated video, upload onto the texture only the
    buffer to be painted.
  - Fix response property definition of WebKitResponsePolicyDecision.
  - Fix a crash in WebKit1 when the WebView is created and destroyed
    too fast.
  - Fix a crash in UI process when the web process crashes.
  - Fix a crash in WebKit2 when a context menu item is selected after
    the page has been closed.
  - Fix a crash when getting the editor command for a key event
    initiated by the web inspector.
  - Fix the build when building with GTK+ 2.
  - 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+ >= 3.6.0
gail >= 3.0
glib >= 2.36.0
libsoup >= 2.42.0
cairo >= 1.10
pango >= 1.30.0
libxml >= 2.6
fontconfig >= 2.5
FreeType2 >= 9.0
libsecret

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

gtk+ >= 2.24.10
gail >= 1.8
GObject introspection >= 1.32.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
SQLite >= 3.0
gstreamer >= 1.0.3
gstreamer-plugins-base >= 1.0.3
enchant >= 0.22
Clutter
Clutter GTK+

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 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,
August 12, 2013
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/attachments/20130812/eb181d2e/attachment.sig>


More information about the webkit-gtk mailing list