[wpe-webkit] WPE WebKit 2.45.90 released

Adrian Perez de Castro aperez at igalia.com
Fri Sep 6 00:51:20 PDT 2024


WPE WebKit 2.45.90 is available for download at:

https://wpewebkit.org/releases/wpewebkit-2.45.90.tar.xz (38.7 MiB)
   md5sum: 0c0b921b2caf570ed0f805f742ff98b7
   sha1sum: c4a6e60730f46221d16f86f4dfc95db0c0057076
   sha256sum: 53e5050904618acff9cc3fd90a0d7aa7eb7a1cff1d93468d3dd0b4f68a2f03d9

This is a development release leading towards the 2.46 series.

## What's new in WPE WebKit 2.45.90?

- Add explicit fencing support when available.
- Add new API to WebKitAutomationSession to be notified when the session is
  about to be closed.
- Add webkit://gpu/stdout to dump the information from webkit://gpu to
  standard output stream.
- Add signposts to allow observing graphics tile rendering in Sysprof.
- Add quirk to allow totale.rosettastone.com to load properly.
- Undeprecate injected bundle frame access interfaces.
- Use RGBA as the pixel format for texture backed SkSurfaces.
- Ensure that the WPEMonitor properties "width" and "height" are set at
  the same time.
- Fix WebGL with accelerated compositing disabled.
- Fix build with GStreamer versions < 1.22.
- Fix connection to the accessibility bus under Flatpak.
- Fix image filtering not being applied in some cases.
- Fix linker relocation errors on Debug/RelWithDebInfo builds.
- Fix the build in non-Linux systems.
- Fix the build with -DUSE_TEXTURE_MAPPER_DMABUF=OFF
- Fix the build with Wayland and GBM disabled.
- 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,
September 6th, 2024
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