[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.39.1 released

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Fri Nov 11 03:14:27 PST 2022


WebKitGTK 2.39.1 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.39.1.tar.xz (37.6MB)
   md5sum: 195fceec8ff9ac716267962e3f3d3290
   sha1sum: b7a86f17f4af02c3655637a93568bdc4cdf9220d
   sha256sum: 45c9745779b94dd3c0f6949f2d9ea5c8ab099beca8147da4e036efd6b0032c32

This is the first development release leading toward 2.40 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.39.1 release?
===========================================

  - Use ANGLE for WebGL implementation and enable WebGL2.
  - Remove internal nested wayland compositor making libwpe mandatory when building with wayland enabled.
  - Prefer EGL over X11, intead of GLX, where available.
  - Add support for background-repeat: space.
  - Add API to check if a response policy decision is for the main resource.
  - Fix rendering of checkbox and radio buttons in black backgrounds.
  - Make checkbox, radio and inner spin button scale along by page zoom.
  - Add support for get computed label and get computed role WebDriver commands.
  - 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 #webkitgtk IRC channel at irc.gnome.org or on Matrix at
  #webkitgtk:matrix.org.

- 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 11, 2022

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

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