[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.21.91 released!

aperez at igalia.com aperez at igalia.com
Tue Aug 21 09:43:53 PDT 2018


WPE WebKit 2.21.91 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.21.91.tar.xz (15.1MB)
   md5sum: 08778a95eba2de141d8aaff3d802c811
   sha1sum: 708808649e4a0470fd8cae253f26c12ddfff99d4
   sha256sum: e75b1ca225fa9303017e954b6203e4f1750a7566fa852443e6fd574fd5f926b8

This is a development release leading toward 2.22 series.

What's new in the WPE WebKit 2.21.91 release?
=============================================

What' new in WPE WebKit 2.21.2?
  - Add API to evaluate code in a new object to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to check for syntax errors in given code to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Update jsc_context_evaluate_with_source_uri() to receive also a starting line number.
  - Add API to allow creating variadic functions to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to run javascript from a WebKitWebView in an isolated world.
  - Disable Gigacage if mmap fails to allocate in Linux.
  - Fix WebProcess crash when trying to use the remote Web Inspector.
  - Fix a network process crash when trying to get cookies of about:blank page.
  - Fix some frames being dropped when using requestAnimationFrame() to animate elements.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

What is WPE WebKit?
====================

WPE WebKit is an embeddable 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://wpewebkit.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, WPE WebKit bugs are
  typically prefixed by "[WPE]." A bug report with a minimal,
  reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch.

- Join the #webkit IRC channel at irc.freenode.net.

- Subscribe to the WPE WebKit mailing list,
  https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-wpe, 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 WPE WebKit team,
August 21, 2018


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