[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.24.3 released!

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Tue Aug 27 15:50:29 PDT 2019


WPE WebKit 2.24.3 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.24.3.tar.xz (16.1MB)
   md5sum: b5c6fe640b03c3e87594da2c0a0a8469
   sha1sum: c9ccb6c4c65446e96ed6d534a1556db0fcca8268
   sha256sum: 907b20907a32a4288cbf67b56eab04cbbd997a7ca0f40b3c466cbbbbfba0e7ca

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.24 series.

What's new in the WPE WebKit 2.24.3 release?
============================================


  - Updated the user agent string to make happy certain websites which
    would claim that the browser being used was unsupported.
  - Improve loading of multimedia streams to avoid memory exhaustion due
    to excessive caching.
  - Fix display of documents with MIME type application/xml in the Web
    Inspector, when loaded using XmlHttpRequest.
  - Fix a hang while scrolling certain websites which include HLS video
    content (Twitter, for example).
  - Fix rounding artifacts in volume levels for media playback.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Fix the build with video track support disabled.
  - Fix the build with multimedia support completely disabled with
    ENABLE_VIDEO=OFF and ENABLE_WEB_AUDIO=OFF.
  - Fix build issue which would cause media controls to disappear when
    Python 3.x was used during the build process.


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 28, 2019


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