[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 2.3.3 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Wed Dec 18 05:31:54 PST 2013


WebKitGTK+ 2.3.3 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.3.3.tar.xz (9.2MB)
   md5sum: c51782e37af0af230adf171d97ecdb37
   sha256sum: 43b779d0c30a1d7af6fb62fcf4e0ed13871edd302317c6acaba7beb9c8157b1e

This is a development release leading toward 2.4 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.3.3 release?
===========================================

  - Initial Network Process support disabled by default.
  - CSS regions are now enabled by default.
  - Support right-side attachment of the inspector in WebKit2.
  - Add spatial navigation setting to WebKit2 GTK+ API.
  - Add media source setting to both WebKit1 and WebKit2.
  - Support custom types for drag and drop data.
  - Avoid extra copy when drawing images in cairo backend.
  - Fix scrolling in combo boxes when the dropdown menu is larger than
    the screen.
  - Render AC layers also when using GTK+ 2 in WebKit1.
  - Fix return value of webkit_web_view_get_view_source_mode() in
    WebKit1.
  - Emit stream-start, caps and segment events in webkitwebaudiosrc
    element.
  - Fix seeking on media content provided by servers not supporting
    range requests.
  - Fix a crash when using media source in GStreamer media backend.
  - Fix an X11 error when the backing store surface is destroyed.
  - Expose splitter elements with ATK_ROLE_SEPARATOR to accessibility.
  - Expose accessibility objects WAI-ARIA landmark roles.
  - Expose accessibility objects with ATK_ROLE_ARTICLE.
  - Expose accessibility objects with ATK_ROLE_CHECK_MENU_ITEM.
  - Remove support for GStreamer 0.10.
  - Memory leak due to incorrect use of gst_tag_list_merge in
    TextCombinerGStreamer.
  - Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese.

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
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
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,
December 18, 2013
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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