[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.24.4 released!

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

WebKitGTK 2.24.4 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.24.4.tar.xz (16.8MB)
   md5sum: c214963d8c0e7d83460da04a0d8dda87
   sha1sum: f978b967422c6b423b11062375bab6506243388c
   sha256sum: 8668b129c026624ec226a4cccf4995f9d26f3e88fc28ab75b0e965f3c32b7dd8

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.24 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.24.4 release?
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  - Updated the user agent string to make happy certain websites which
    would claim that the browser being used was unsupported.
  - Improve loading of multimedia streams to avoid memory exhaustion due
    to excessive caching.
  - Fix display of documents with MIME type application/xml in the Web
    Inspector, when loaded using XmlHttpRequest.
  - Fix a hang while scrolling certain websites which include HLS video
    content (Twitter, for example).
  - Fix rounding artifacts in volume levels for media playback.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Fix the build with video track support disabled.
  - Fix the build with OpenGL support disabled.
  - Fix build issue which would cause media controls to disappear when
    Python 3.x was used during the build process.

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.

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

The WebKitGTK team,
August 28, 2019