[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.23.90 released!
Adrian Perez de Castro
aperez at igalia.com
Thu Feb 21 10:07:04 PST 2019
WPE WebKit 2.23.90 is available for download at:
https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.23.90.tar.xz (16.1MB)
md5sum: 06ab9cc7da53cf35ff9315800fb91140
sha1sum: 5ed558f2e7d4b82adbe426b4574f24eac848fa60
sha256sum: 070c4e838560b3dacc635af769c419ffb11ef3bb211f826115b2308990fc7ad8
This is a development release leading toward 2.24 series.
What's new in the WPE WebKit 2.23.90 release?
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- Add a new setting to disable JavaScript elments from documents during parsing.
- Add initial support for subprocess sandboxing in Linux.
- Add initial support for variation fonts.
- Add new API to convert a URI to a format for display.
- Add new API to expose JavaScriptCore options.
- Add new API to handle user content filters.
- Add new permission request type for media device information.
- Add support for JPEG2000 images.
- Fix a UI process crash while filling selection data during drag and drop.
- Fix a web process deadlock when starting the remote inspector.
- Fix crashes when closing the WebDriver session.
- Fix deadlock on Linux/x64 between SamplingProfiler and VMTraps.
- Fix rendering artifacts in some websites with accelerated compositing enabled.
- Fix the build with OpenGL disabled.
- Remove experimental sandboxing support, it's not yet ready for stable release.
- Sleep disabler now inhibits idle when a "System" sleep disabler is requested.
- 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
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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
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Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they
are far too many to list!
The WPE WebKit team,
February 21, 2019
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