WPE WebKit 2.39.5 released

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This is a development release leading towards the 2.40 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.39.5?

  • Use ANGLE for the WebGL implementation and enable WebGL 2.
  • Add support for background-repeat: space.
  • Add API to check if a response policy decision is for the main resource.
  • Add support for the “get computed label” and “get computed role” WebDriver commands.
  • Add API to support asynchronously returning values from user script messages.
  • Add API to query the permission state of web features.
  • Add API to disable Web security.
  • Add support for client side certificates on WebSocket connections.
  • Add webkit_web_hit_test_result_get_js_node() to get the JSCValue for the node.
  • Add WebKitWebFormManager and deprecate WebKitWebPage form related signals.
  • Make checkbox, radio and inner spin button scale along by page zoom.
  • Use asynchronous scrolling also for keyboard scrolling.
  • Deprecate the WebKitConsoleMessage API.
  • Deprecate the event parameter of WebKitWebView::context-menu and WebKitWebView::show-option-menu signals in favor of a getter in WebKitContextMenu and WebKitOptionMenu.
  • Do not emit context-menu signals for the media settings popup menu.
  • Do not perform position queries on the video sink when a player is for audio only.
  • Fix WebGL when sandbox is enabled.
  • Fix loading of media documents.
  • Fix first party for cookies set on every media request.
  • Fix gibberish text when loading alternate data.
  • Fix rendering of checkbox and radio buttons on black backgrounds.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  • Fix several warnings when building for ARMv7 (32-bits).
  • Fix web process leak when webkit_download_set_destination() is called with empty destination.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.39.5.tar.xz (35.8 MiB)
   md5sum: d46d9abddd4f5352cd2247e925ac0332
   sha1sum: ea91ce4b2fb93fd538ab48d5fa262bce84576c31
   sha256sum: 0c8d256349cbccbc7080992e590456c8a66690dbe547f2d481c86ac18cee5ef0

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