[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.24.2 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Fri May 17 05:00:07 PDT 2019


WebKitGTK 2.24.2 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.24.2.tar.xz (17.1MB)
   md5sum: 83012998e1b9f71abb37d8baf6f9c7e6
   sha1sum: 632a65d93beb996bebdf7592ef9591f3993dea91
   sha256sum: 019cb1f0d05bf6148b72c7a85734bcd006388a1c14132843ef9a1b2cb7b4321c

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

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.24.2 release?
===========================================

  - Fix rendering of emojis copy-pasted from GTK emoji chooser.
  - Fix space characters not being rendered with some CJK fonts.
  - Fix adaptive streaming playback with older GStreamer versions.
  - Set a maximum zoom level for pinch zooming gesture.
  - Fix navigation gesture to not interfere with scrolling.
  - Fix SSE2 detection at compile time, ensuring the right flags are passed to the compiler.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Translation updates: Danish, Spanish, Ukrainian.
  - Security fixes: CVE-2019-8595, CVE-2019-8607, CVE-2019-8615.

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
======

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

The WebKitGTK team,
May 17, 2019
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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