[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.27.3 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Tue Nov 26 04:48:40 PST 2019


WebKitGTK 2.27.3 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.27.3.tar.xz (19.9MB)
   md5sum: 23501de75ce5d6dc4f0d828953f93f2b
   sha1sum: 4bfe5ae01c1702853b778f8609322bc1dac7d638
   sha256sum: 5390d0b41957834202893887f1ac04e3264b6a3d98160d4166e3c8c16bdb7492

This is a development release leading toward 2.28 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.27.3 release?
===========================================

  - Add support for Pointer Lock API.
  - Improve performance when falling back to system fonts.
  - Stop using DBus for the remote inspector implementation to improve the performance of both
    WebDriver and remote inspector.
  - Implement support for new ARIA roles: code, strong, emphasis, generic.
  - Fix handling of content type with new custom protocols implementation.
  - Make image decoders fully thread safe.
  - Add support for get page source command in WebDriver.
  - Add support for network proxy capabilities in WebDriver.
  - Add support for new window command in WebDriver.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian.

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,
November 26, 2019
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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