[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.27.3 released
Alejandro G. Castro
alex at igalia.com
Wed Nov 27 06:58:49 PST 2019
WPE WebKit 2.27.3 is available for download at:
https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.27.3.tar.xz (18.8 MiB)
md5sum: c9d8e133cd407e8a56cbd63cecfe3ff3
sha1sum: 002de6a949332be48c19e3841b189297030eb0f2
sha256sum:
5523ac2584e37f9d69fa59593bbd4227e3c777bd3b78c86dfd4da5636922a77b
This is a development release leading towards the 2.28 series.
## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.3?
- Improve performance when falling back to system fonts.
- Stop using DBus for the remote inspector implementation to improve
- the performance of both
WebDriver and remote inspector.
- Implement support for new ARIA roles: code, strong, emphasis,
- generic.
- Fix handling of content type with new custom protocols
- implementation.
- Make image decoders fully thread safe.
- Add support for get page source command in WebDriver.
- Add support for network proxy capabilities in WebDriver.
- Add support for new window command in WebDriver.
- 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 use
you may:
- Visit our website at https://wpewebkit.org, or the upstream
site at https://webkit.org. People interested in contributing
should read https://webkit.org/coding/contributing.html
- Browse the bug list at https://bugs.webkit.org
A bug report with a minimal, reproducible test cases is often just
as valuable as a patch.
- Join the #webkit channel at irc.freenode.net.
- Subscribe to the webkit-wpe at lists.webkit.org mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-wpe, or the
WebKit general development mailing list
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
## Thanks
Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible.
The WPE WebKit Team,
November 27th, 2019
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