[webkit-gtk] Known issues in 2.44.3 (Was: Re: WebKitGTK 2.44.3 released)

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

Hello, all,

TL;DR: We recommend applying the patches from [2] and [3] over 2.44.3,
and the issues are expected to be solved in the upcoming 2.44.4 releases.


On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:10:44 +0200 Carlos Garcia Campos <cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> WebKitGTK 2.44.3 is available for download at:
> 
> https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.44.3.tar.xz (35.5MB)
>    md5sum: 46cf81df314acbf62f811bcfd99f4769
>    sha1sum: c9bcb2097d8f774b2c64ca650a4f8a6365ff54f6
>    sha256sum: dc82d042ecaca981a4852357c06e5235743319cf10a94cd36ad41b97883a0b54
> 
> This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.44 series.
> 
> [...]

There are two known issues in this release, which affect both the GTK and WPE
WebKit ports:

  * LTO builds made with Clang may hit what we believe is a compiler issue,
    causing segfaults when loading many pages. The issue [1] is not new but
    it started showing up in stable releases in 2.44.3 -- a workaround is
    available [2], which may or not be merged as-is, but I would recommend
    that packagers apply it before the fix is available in the next stable
    release.

  * Sites using WebAssembly can easily hit a crash related to code generation.
    This was caused by a patch backport. For the moment we have decided to
    revert it in the release branch [3], and packagers may want to do the
    same. I am investigating in case may be possible to re-apply the patch
    without introducing regressions in the next stable release, but I am
    not sure at the moment.

Cheers,
—Adrián

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[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274780
[2] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/32240
[3] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/9140ce712aa87091613874d802787ab476be0e39
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