WPE WebKit 2.49.1 released

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This is the first development release leading towards the 2.50 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.49.1?

  • Change threaded rendering implementation to use Skia API instead of WebCore display lists that are not thread safe. This also allowed to improve performance by recording layers once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
  • Added hybrid rendering mode that tries to use the GPU worker threads, but if they are all busy the CPU worker threads are used if possible.
  • Add volume locking support to media player.
  • Add support for tracing counters with Sysprof.
  • Add a default accessibility implementation using ATK to WPEPlatform.
  • Add new API in WPEPlatform that allows attaching user data to WPEEvent.
  • Add new API in WPEPlatform to get/set the input purpose and hints for the current input through WPEInputMethodContext.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.49.1.tar.xz (40.3 MiB)
   md5sum: 2a3814213b70447d32615b980584c280
   sha1sum: 5b326755a18824e26e6c8a620095a79d9a6ac244
   sha256sum: 0104387a334b0adb93107ca145b2a9702f49772d87564c383b5db9b63171193e

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