[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 2.3.1 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Tue Oct 29 03:28:09 PDT 2013


WebKitGTK+ 2.3.1 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.3.1.tar.xz (8.8MB)
   md5sum: 9a6b33e94f422c5b1d9ec4262344b058
   sha256sum: 260bfcfe9ba98cb795a7d8ed8b557b5d623025c11ede795c5745526693da4871

This is the first development release leading toward 2.4 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.3.1 release?
===========================================

  - Add WebKit2 API for TLS errors.
  - Make EventTarget interface introspectable in GObject DOM bindings.
  - Expose WheelEvent in the GObject DOM bindings API.
  - Generate API documentation for GObject DOM bindings.
  - Respect image orientation by default.
  - Enable text edition undo/redo operations support in WebKit2.
  - Add suppport for blob URLs to GStreamer media backend.
  - Add support for subtitles.
  - Allow running the web process with an arbitrary prefix command in
    debug builds.
  - Expose image links properly to accessibility.
  - Expose title and alternative text for links in image maps to
    accessibility.
  - Cancel the current active WebKitAuthenticationRequest on load
    fail.
  - 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
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,
October 29, 2013
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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