WPE WebKit 2.50.0 released

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This is the first stable release in the 2.50 series.

Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.50.0 release

  • Improved rendering performance by recording each layer once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
  • Enable damage propagation to the UI process by default.
  • The CSS property font-variant-emoji is now supported and enabled by default.
  • Font synthesis properties (bold/italic) are now properly handled.
  • Added new API to get the theme color of a WebKitWebView.
  • Support for video capture using PipeWire through the camera portal.
  • The WebKitSettings:enable-hyperlink-auditing option has been deprecated, and the setting is always considered to be enabled.
  • The USE_GSTREAMER_TRANSCODER build option has been removed, and the implementation replaced with stock GStreamer functionality.
  • The lowest GCC version that can be used to build WebKit is now 12.2.

For more details about all the changes included in WPE WebKit 2.50 see the NEWS file that is included in the tarball.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.50.0.tar.xz (41.2 MiB)
   md5sum: 85a535b3c88c6ae435aad271347312cb
   sha1sum: 1c10f89fe1abcfadfa1b4b3934461e0202ce09d5
   sha256sum: a9af62c5e18551b7386b7db864e8ba8156f219b8e6c639934bf6f3a567969922

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