[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.27.4 released!

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Fri Jan 10 05:12:29 PST 2020


WebKitGTK 2.27.4 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.27.4.tar.xz (20.2MB)
   md5sum: 917cfe99328ffebb7d22421d08bb41cd
   sha1sum: ef7423d5156aa7dab050f5771cc8334c862f9d85
   sha256sum: 50550a45464993070c544ec9777594d105fc5b35269520a3c96a3e2cd54874f7

This is a development release leading toward 2.28 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.27.4 release?
===========================================

  - Add API for input methods.
  - Add API to serialize/deserialize a JSCValue to/from a JSON string.
  - Add support for strict secure cookies.
  - Add support for saving data from remote inspector.
  - Make ondemand hardware acceleration policy never leave accelerated compositing mode.
  - Fix rendering of conic gradients in high resolution displays.
  - Fix special combination characters not respecting the keystroke order when high CPU load.
  - Honor the IndexedDB directory set in WebsiteDataManager.
  - Fix rendering of text when there's an initial advance in the text run.
  - Fix web process crash when displaying a KaTeX formula.
  - Fix network process crash with PSON enabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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,
January 10, 2020
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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