[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.38.0 released

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Fri Sep 16 06:55:33 PDT 2022


WPE WebKit 2.38.0 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.38.0.tar.xz (29.1 MiB)
   md5sum: e0e6b98c86351c39e41da475afc50780
   sha1sum: 66e6dd1c285a21ce50370fb4d60332838d801663
   sha256sum: e653e12eca63e6371c06d4cd9efcd5492db67f7d9ef324fd5d8668b1151e72b2

This is the first stable release in the 2.38 series.

## Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.38.0 Release

- New media controls user interface style.
- New API to set the web view's default Content-Security-Policy, which can
  be used to implement support for web extensions.
- New API to run asynchronous JavaScript functions.
- New JavaScriptCore GLib API for typed arrays.
- Support for using the remote inspector from other browsers, using the
  WEBKIT_INSPECTOR_HTTP_SERVER environment variable.
- MediaSession is now enabled by default, allowing remote media control
  using the MPRIS D-Bus API.
- Add support for displaying PDF documents using PDF.js.
- Add support for generating crash reports using Breakpad.
- The libnotify dependency has been removed.

## 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 chat at #wpe channel at irc.oftc.net, or the #wpe:matrix.org room

- 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,
September 16th, 2022

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