[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK+ 2.14.3 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Tue Jan 17 07:17:54 PST 2017


WebKitGTK+ 2.14.3 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.14.3.tar.xz (13.3MB)
   md5sum: cb08302a3e140f5487fe757262cf5267
   sha1sum: b4a8c0a0ca52cfff311cde56d0f029acc5eab036
   sha256sum: 0bead450a4c92024f09008725bb3e8c3830a32c7e2983d566368c4fede9e106c

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.14 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.14.3 release?
============================================

  - Create GLX OpenGL contexts using version 3.2 (core profile) when available to reduce the memory
    consumption on Mesa based drivers.
  - Improve memory pressure handler to reduce the CPU usage on memory pressure situations.
  - Fix a regression in WebKitWebView title notify signal emission that caused the signal to be emitted
    multiple times.
  - Fix high CPU usage in the web process loading hyphenation dictionaries.
  - More user agent string improvements to improve compatibility with several websites.
  - Fix web process crash when closing the web view in X11.
  - Fix the build with OpenGL ES2 enabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Translation updates: German.
  - Security fixes: CVE-2016-7656, CVE-2016-7635, CVE-2016-7654, CVE-2016-7639, CVE-2016-7645, CVE-2016-7652,
    CVE-2016-7641, CVE-2016-7632, CVE-2016-7599, CVE-2016-7592, CVE-2016-7589, CVE-2016-7623, CVE-2016-7586.

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 https://www.webkitgtk.org, or the upstream
  site at https://www.webkit.org. People interested in contributing
  should read: https://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html.

- Browse the bug list at https://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,
  https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk, or the
  WebKit development mailing list,
  https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

Thanks
======

Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they
are far too many to list!

The WebKitGTK+ team,
January 17, 2017
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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