[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK 2.49.4 released

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

WebKitGTK 2.49.4 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.49.4.tar.xz (43.2MB)
   md5sum: ef9f277520bde1e9dd77f66433fc4562
   sha1sum: 77b10affa7d361c1e98c67471e55d8af36ebe83c
   sha256sum: 5b3e758f4cef804e227516a9bf1fe30ce88df6285d1a60d60926dec5bc5463e4

This is a development release leading toward 2.50 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.49.4 release?
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  - Enable CSS property font-variant-emoji is now enabled by default.
  - Improve emoji font selection.
  - Add SVT-AV1 encoder support to media backend.
  - Show device scale factor in webkit://gpu.
  - Fix font rendering of composed characters with certain fonts.
  - Fix handling of font synthesis properties (bold/italic).
  - Fix documentation of WebKitDeviceInfoPermissionRequest.
  - 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 31, 2025

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Carlos Garcia Campos
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