[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.48.4 released

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Wed Jul 30 01:30:27 PDT 2025


WebKitGTK 2.48.4 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.48.4.tar.xz (40.8MB)
   md5sum: 216294e21af0e5f725047826c8ad86a0
   sha1sum: 76f79c39dee04ef2c6ded3639a21533c85fd385b
   sha256sum: f62c1077d3a0f63d50259a802d1143be5d4d0c7c4c05e581819af1ce935afab3

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.48 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.48.4 release?
===========================================

  - Improve emoji font selection with USE_SKIA=ON.
  - Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
  - Fix the build with USE_SKIA_OPENTYPE_SVG=ON and
    USE_SYSPROF_CAPTURE=ON.
  - Fix the build on LoongArch with USE_SKIA=ON.
  - Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen window.
  - 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,
July 30, 2025
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