[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.46.2 released

Carlos Garcia Campos cgarcia at igalia.com
Mon Oct 21 02:38:29 PDT 2024


WebKitGTK 2.46.2 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.46.2.tar.xz (40.8MB)
   md5sum: 83724a174a3e3d0bc485b5f1af794a85
   sha1sum: 2d604e99169e946175d5d60530dc37908bb99403
   sha256sum: 5aae1c5c0a30d5e9c5831652b6f1bdefc31d75e0ad81cb40185b0aed92ce79b6

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.46 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.46.2 release?
===========================================

  - Own well-known bus name on a11y bus.
  - Improve memory consumption when putImageData is used repeatedly on accelerated canvas.
  - Disable cached web process suspension for now to prevent leaks.
  - Improve text kerning with different combinations of antialias and hinting settings.
  - Destroy all network sessions on process exit.
  - Fix visible rectangle calculation when there are animations.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS=OFF.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_FULLSCREEN_API=OFF.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_WEB_AUDIO=OFF.
  - Fix the build on ppc64le.
  - 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:matrix.org Matrix channel.

- 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,
October 21, 2024

-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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