[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.40.0 released

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

WebKitGTK 2.40.0 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.40.0.tar.xz (38.2MB)
   md5sum: ece1da414dcc455ad08c6b5673a125e4
   sha1sum: 70929e6162051e0b1b434049324f472507cec029
   sha256sum: a4607ea1bf89669e89b1cb2c63faaec513f93de09b6ae60cc71d6a8aab7ab393

This is the first stable release in the 2.40 series.

Highlights of the WebKitGTK 2.40.0 release
==========================================

 - New GTK4 API is now stable.
 - Use ANGLE for WebGL implementation and enable WebGL2.
 - Prefer EGL over X11, intead of GLX, where available.
 - Add support for speech synthesis using Flite.
 - Enable the async clipboard API.
 - Add API to query the permission state of web features.
 - Add API to support asynchronously returning values from user script messages.
 - Make it possible to handle WebKitDownload::decide-destination signal asynchronously.
 - Add new JavaScript execution APIs.
 - Make webkit://gpu output exportable as JSON.
 - Fix large memory allocation when uploading content.


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,
March 17, 2023

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

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