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Don’t miss any news related to WPE – our blog aims to share information regarding WPE: explainers, how-to articles and general information regarding WPE, WebKit and the Web platform. Also check out the official WebKit blog regarding news on the engine itself.

  1. Integrating WPE: URI Scheme Handlers and Script Messages

    This post explores some of the ways in which WPE WebKit can integrate with its surrounding environment, in order to expose platform functionality to Web content seamlessly.

  2. Status of the new SVG engine in WebKit

    Let's take a detour from the previous WPE architecture related posts to other aspects of our work on WebKit at Igalia. Today, the status of the development of WebKits' new SVG engine is presented, along with an introduction to the topic, and an outlook for 2023.

  3. Success Story: WPE in digital signage

    Digital signage web rendering players have many advantages and are a trend nowadays.

  4. Success Story: Metrological

    WPE WebKit brought RDK (Reference Design Kit), a modern, performant web browser, to millions of screens.

  5. WPE Networking Overview

    In this post we'll cover the many layers of the networking stack that WPE uses including libsoup and glib.

  6. WPE QA and tooling

    In the previous posts, my colleagues Claudio and Miguel wrote respectively about the major components of the project and, specifically, the graphics architecture of WPE. Today, you'll see our efforts to improve the quality of both WPE and the experience of working and using it.

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Recent Release Notes

Stable

cog: 0.18.0
wpewebkit: 2.40.1
wpebackend-fdo: 1.14.2
libwpe: 1.14.1

Unstable

cog: 0.17.90
wpewebkit: 2.41.2
wpebackend-fdo: 1.13.1
libwpe: 1.15.1

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