[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.43.1 released

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Fri Nov 24 12:29:23 PST 2023


WPE WebKit 2.43.1 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.43.1.tar.xz (31.0 MiB)
   md5sum: 9bdfd5e91254b348119dd41e256e3900
   sha1sum: 776183823cb090b1c0c9646407fa22ed751370cb
   sha256sum: 1713ede3016d5b027cc28779399873f2d9e8bd976291895d8085ba668e3a22f1

This is the first development release leading towards the 2.44 series.

## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.43.1?

- Improve vblank synchronization when rendering.
- Improve DMA-BUF buffers handling for video frames.
- Use the buffer format preferred by the driver in DMA-BUF renderer.
- Do not block the compositing thread waiting for rendering threads.
- Improve performance when scaling images in a canvas.
- Allow disabling WebGL support using the API.
- Enable usage of libbacktrace by default.
- 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,
November 24th, 2023

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