This is a development release leading toward 2.24 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.23.90 release?
- Add a new setting to disable JavaScript elments from documents during parsing.
- Add initial support for subprocess sandboxing in Linux.
- Add initial support for variation fonts.
- Add new API to convert a URI to a format for display.
- Add new API to expose JavaScriptCore options.
- Add new API to handle user content filters.
- Add new permission request type for media device information.
- Add support for JPEG2000 images.
- Fix a UI process crash while filling selection data during drag and drop.
- Fix a web process deadlock when starting the remote inspector.
- Fix crashes when closing the WebDriver session.
- Fix deadlock on Linux/x64 between SamplingProfiler and VMTraps.
- Fix rendering artifacts in some websites with accelerated compositing enabled.
- Fix the build with OpenGL disabled.
- Remove experimental sandboxing support, it’s not yet ready for stable release.
- Sleep disabler now inhibits idle when a “System” sleep disabler is requested.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.
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