[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 2.11.3 released!
Carlos Garcia Campos
cgarcia at igalia.com
Wed Jan 13 00:17:26 PST 2016
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.3 is available for download at:
http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.11.3.tar.xz (11.0MB)
md5sum: 9fc207f5865789ba5f6d9390a6937db1
sha256sum: 728b54364f067029b8c6106476c2cd874c68999a1d09eb1cdabe60fa5e38562a
This is a development release leading toward 2.12 series.
What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.11.3 release?
============================================
- NetworkProcess is now used unconditionally. The shared secondary process model is now
the same as using the multiple process model and setting a process limit of 1.
- Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is configured.
- Reduce the maximum simultaneous network connections to match other browsers.
- Extend notifications API to notify WebKit when a notification is clicked by the user.
- Add new API to save and restore a WebView session.
- Add Web Extensions API to be notified about console messages.
- Add WebKitURIRequest API to get the HTTP method.
- Add API to handle beforeunload events.
- Make WebKitWebView always propagate motion-notify-event signal.
- Add a way to force accelerating compositing mode at runtime using an environment variable.
- Fix input elements and scrollbars rendering with GTK+ 3.19.
- Fix a crash in the UI process when the WebView is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy
is being created.
- Fix a WebProcess crash when loading large contents with custom URI schemes API.
- Fix UI process crashes related to not having a main resource response when the load is committed
for pages restored from the history cache.
- Translation updates: French, German, Turkish
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
libsoup >= 2.42.0
cairo >= 1.10.2
libxml >= 2.8.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
HarfBuzz >= 0.9.2
icu
fontconfig >= 2.8.0
FreeType2 >= 2.4.2
libsecret
SQLite
enchant
Depending on your configuration options WebKitGTK+ may also depend on:
gtk+ >= 2.24.10
GObject introspection
gstreamer >= 1.0.3
GeoClue >= 2.1.5
gudev
cairo-gl >= 1.10.2
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 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,
January 13, 2016
--
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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