[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.31.1 released

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

WPE WebKit 2.31.1 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.31.1.tar.xz (20.9 MiB)
   md5sum: 58b278f1a0dbe11a9aae941890d2bfd5
   sha1sum: 9c73673d8b6e4482a8d6c5748a1b373c8ed41f33
   sha256sum: c503a39d2fbd7d102a29664939e2c6f55d4a7281d7ecada8c508eef451889f74

This is the first development release leading towards the 2.32 series.

## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.31.1?

- Removed support for NPAPI plugins.
- Enabled the web process cache when PSON is enabled too.
- TLS errors and the proxy settings APIs have been moved from WebKitContext
  to WebKitWebsiteDataManager.
- Added new API to remove individual scripts and style sheets using
  WebKitUserContentManager.
- Fixed application of the system font scaling factor.
- Added support for showing information about main loop frames in the web
  inspector.
- Added internal audio rendering support. The WebProcess can now maintain a
  single connection to the system audio service and perform audio mixing
  internally. For the time being this has to be enabled at runtime through
  the WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_AUDIO_MIXER=1 environment variable.
- Switched GStreamer initialization to be on-demand and mostly contained to
  the WebProcess. GStreamer used to be initialized unconditionally once from
  the UIProcess and once from the WebProcess. GStreamer is now used mostly only
  from the WebProcess, even for probing audio and video capture devices. Users
  of the webkit_web_view_can_show_mime_type() API will still trigger GStreamer
  initialization in the UIProcess, though.
- Changed the image decoder for videos to use decodebin3.
- Added support for sending WebAudio to MediaStream.
- Added multi-channel (>2) support for AudioFileReader and the WebAudio renderer.
- Added support for audio worklets.
- Added optional support for native formats rendering.
- Added Opus support for the Thunder CDM.
- Added common-encryption support for CMAF in Thunder CDM.
- MSE/EME/WebAudio and general media playback bug fixes.

## 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,
February 5th, 2021

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