WPE WebKit 2.49.4 released

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This is a development release leading towards the 2.50 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.49.4?

  • Enable the font-variant-emoji CSS property by default.
  • Improve emoji font selection.
  • Add SVT-AV1 encoder support to media backend.
  • Support selection drag, which allows e.g. to click and drag to select text with the cursor.
  • Support logging using the logd service on Android, and allow configuring log channels using the debug.log.WPEWebKit and log.tag.WPEWebKit system properties.
  • Add support in the WPEPlatform Wayland backend to request server-side decorations from compositors that support the XDG Decoration protocol.
  • Show device scale factor in webkit://gpu.
  • Add handling in the WPEPlatform Wayland backend to provide frame timing information using the Presentation Time protocol as Sysprof marks.
  • Fix font rendering of composed characters with certain fonts.
  • Fix handling of font synthesis properties (bold/italic).
  • Fix the documentation for WebKitDeviceInfoPermissionRequest.
  • Fix the build on LoongArch with USE_SKIA=ON.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.49.4.tar.xz (41.2 MiB)
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   sha1sum: 7716407d3979453967984e5510ab238d8a3f4927
   sha256sum: b8db7985b814100474be6d20dcb078d8ea843fcfe13e32c0f6a524fd229c158f

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