[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.40.1 released

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

WPE WebKit 2.40.1 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.40.1.tar.xz (35.8 MiB)
   md5sum: 617b00eabfc84d9c38b49b5705ec9f81
   sha1sum: fe03c27eedc59c0df0193d5e361b26e42e3598b0
   sha256sum: c6b25e168b70f2121305ed078d0790e0aa4b0c73fce44e32ed42d4e5dd137ccb

This is the first bug fix release in the stable 2.40 series.

## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.40.1?

- The Bubblewrap sandbox no longer requires setting an application
  identifier via GApplication to operate correctly. Using GApplication
  is still recommended, but optional.
- Improvements to the GStreamer multimedia playback, in particular
  around MSE, WebRTC, and seeking.
- Make all supported image ypes appear in the Accept HTTP header.
- Long touch presses no longer generate mouse click events, to align
  with other web engines and WebKit ports.
- Fix default database quota size definition.
- Fix application of all caps tags listed in the font-feature-settings
  CSS property.
- Fix the build with journald support enabled when using elogind
  instead of the systemd libraries.
- Fix the build when libgcrypt provides a libgcrypt-config script
  instead of a pkg-config module file.
- Fix font height calculations for the font-size-adjust CSS property.
- Fix the build when ccache is used in certain setups.
- Fix the build for RISC-V 64-bit targets.
- Fix the build with GCC 13.
- 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 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,
April 19th, 2023

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