[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.44.0 released

[Arnaud Vrac]

On 3/20/24 23:17, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> 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.

Hi Adrian,

Are you sure the ATK and ATK-Bridge dependencies can be removed ? The ATK and ATKBridge packages are REQUIRED in Source/cmake/OptionsWPE.cmake. Removing the ATK::Bridge dependency doesn't seem to prevent building WebKit though, when Tooling is disabled.

Regards,
-Arnaud

> 
> Cheers,
> —Adrián
> 
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> [1] https://wpewebkit.org/release/wpewebkit-2.44.0.html
> 
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