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 thedebug.log.WPEWebKit
andlog.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
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