[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.44.0 released

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

Hello,

A quick heads up for packagers and integrators...

On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:03:39 +0200 Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez at igalia.com> wrote:
> WPE WebKit 2.44.0 is available for download at:
> 
> https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.44.0.tar.xz (33.6 MiB)
>    md5sum: fd82ff4f25456630fecef0e8cd0f0a22
>    sha1sum: 6fbcb192e40f3d86952778995d34e0cbb63a44db
>    sha256sum: 0741862b559da0cbbf8e0bccb057361f8a1c6a96178ba10aa0375030b01f05d4
> 
> This is the first stable release in the 2.44 series.
> 
> ### Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.44.0 release
> 
> - Allow disabling WebGL support using the API.
> - Improve V-Blank synchronization when rendering.
> - 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 <canvas>.
> - Support usage of libbacktrace, enabled by default at build time.

One change that slipped from the release notes (and which has been added in
the website release page [1]) is that the ENABLE_ACCESSIBILITY build option
has been removed from the CMake build system. To ease maintenance most WebKit
ports now always include accessibility support and some common code is always
built.

It is still possible to build without most of the accessibility support by
disabling the new USE_ATK option, which is specific to the WPE port. Using
USE_ATK=OFF avoids the need for the ATK and ATK-Bridge libraries -- as it
was the case before.

Cheers,
—Adrián

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[1] https://wpewebkit.org/release/wpewebkit-2.44.0.html
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