[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.47.2 released

[Adrian Perez de Castro]

WPE WebKit 2.47.2 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.47.2.tar.xz (39.6 MiB)
   md5sum: f215b136dae435442745a4b059fe34a6
   sha1sum: f79dceabe36ef39f814560f89d8bfa06f0eaa41b
   sha256sum: ee1626c271566b1859d25e50a378a8781db87b78dbc6369df1f7f046af9547c7

This is a development release leading towards the 2.48 series.

## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.47.2?

- Move tiles rendering to a secondary thread when using the GPU.
- Use the damage information when collected to improve composition in WebKit.
- Improve performance of canvas putImageData/getImageData by avoiding
  buffer copies.
- Add system settings API to WPEPlatform.
- Fix opacity not being handled correctly for DMA-BUF negotiation.
- Fix preserve-3D intersection rendering.
- Fix video dimensions since GStreamer 1.24.9.
- Fix opening links with window.open() when noopener is present.
- 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 27th, 2024

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