WPE WebKit 2.45.1 released

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This is the first development release leading towards the 2.46 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.45.1?

  • Use Skia by default instead of Cairo for rendering. Cairo support may still be built passing -DUSE_SKIA=OFF to CMake.
  • Synchronize WebGL content using fences, where available.
  • Disable the gst-libav AAC decoder.
  • Support AXActiveElement and AXSelectedChildren for combo boxes, lists and list boxes.
  • Decrease input notifications for gamepad inputs.
  • Make gamepads visible on axis movements, and not only on button presses.
  • Improve DMA-BUF format negotiation and buffer allocation to facilitate faster code paths in buffer handling.
  • Make user scripts and style sheets visible in the Web Inspector.
  • Make hole-punch media playback support video elements with rounded corners.
  • Enable by default building support for the MediaSession and WebCodecs APIs.
  • Allow WebDriver connections to already running browsers.
  • Support downloading files from the Web Inspector when using HTTP remote connections.
  • Replace build-time per-platform multimedia support option with quirks applied at runtime. Automatic quirk detection is used by default, and quirks may be overriden using the WEBKIT_GST_QUIRKS and WEBKIT_GST_HOLE_PUNCH environment variables.
  • Deprecate the WebKitWebView::insecure-content-detected signal.
  • Fix mouse location in WebDriver when output device scaling is in effect.
  • Fix touch input event propagation.
  • Fix missing mouse cursor in the WPE Wayland platform support.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.45.1.tar.xz (37.7 MiB)
   md5sum: b5399a7fe2dbd5a380caed9da7f3bfa3
   sha1sum: 255c1ee50d311c9135b898e0da4876555af6df6a
   sha256sum: c985a11fd70d5e0190adee2556bd5f2be9f860d628c71ae7cb35b6875b73a507

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