WPE WebKit 2.38.4 released

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This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.38 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.38.4?

  • Improve GStreamer multimedia playback across the board with improved codec selection logic, better handling of latency, and improving frame discard to avoid audio/video desynchronization, among other fixes.
  • Disable HLS media playback by default, which makes web sites use MSE instead. If needed WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_HLS_SUPPORT=1 can be set in the environment to enable it back.
  • Fix MediaSession API not showing artwork images.
  • Fix MediaSession MPRIS usage when running inside a Flatpak sandbox.
  • Fix input element controls to correctly scale when applying a zoom factor different than the default.
  • Fix leakage of Web processes in certain situations.
  • Fix the injected bundle not being found when running inside a sandbox.
  • Fix the build with ENABLE_INTROSPECTION when cross-compiling.
  • FIx the build with ENABLE_WEBGL disabled.
  • Fix the build with GStreamer-based WebRTC enabled.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.38.4.tar.xz (29.1 MiB)
   md5sum: 1c947ef5b73049fc6c102c92013009bf
   sha1sum: 7fe9a7d98401256b0c9872f1c2b702e56840cbd3
   sha256sum: 8c1bc113ef151fb0be2640824d323bc755dc97295ab7a1bc05e7ec589937a07b

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