[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.31.1 released

[Harish Kulkarni]

Shouldn;t we have configuration to enable TLS 1.3 from WPE config file?.
In case of chrome and firefox there is an option to enable TLS 1.3 by
default.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:36 PM Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 18:24:48 +0530 Harish Kulkarni <harishvk27 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Does this version of TLS supports TLS 1.3?.
>
> Hello Harish,
>
> TLS support is provided by GnuTLS or OpenSSL. If you have a recent version
> that can do TLS 1.3, WPE WebKit will support TLS 1.3 as well.
>
> (Longer explanation: WPE WebKit uses libsoup [1] for networking, which uses
> glib-networking [2] for TLS. In turn, glib-networking can be configured to
> be built using GnuTLS or OpenSSL.)
>
> Cheers.
> -Adrián
>
> ---
> [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib-networking
>
> > -thanks
> > harish
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 7:41 PM Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
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> > >   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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