[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.49.1 released

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

WebKitGTK 2.49.1 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.49.1.tar.xz (42.1MB)
   md5sum: e071fa3db1aac83b85811a8d0cbe2830
   sha1sum: 23982f40a9bbfbe7eb47fd07acb90d23ffc3b795
   sha256sum: 9c0a5ed606a7a6bdc71c2545633200c5a9a657639b0b6b1ec01f92f21d47ecba

This is the first development release leading toward 2.50 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.49.1 release?
===========================================

  - Change threaded rendering implementation to use Skia API instead of WebCore display
    list that is not thread safe. This also allowed to improve performance by recording
    layers once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
  - Added hybrid rendering mode that tries to use the GPU worker threads, but if they
    are all busy the CPU worker threads are used if possible.
  - Add volume locking support to media player.
  - Add support for tracing counters with Sysprof.
  - 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,
April 03, 2025

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Carlos Garcia Campos
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