WPE WebKit 2.51.1 released

This is the first development release leading towards the 2.52 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.51.1?

• Use the GPU process for WebGL by default.
• Add initial API for WebExtensions.
• Add API to handle WebXR permission requests.
• Add new API to query the WebXR immersive session status.
• Improve text rendering performance.
• Compute the layers tile size, using a different strategy depending on whether GPU rendering is enabled.
• Add support for run loop observers that are now used to replace the layer flush timer and properly implement the opportunistic task scheduler.
• Add initial support for WebXR on Android.
• Improve WPEBufferDMABuf to allow importing more kinds of buffers as into pixel buffers using wpe_buffer_import_to_pixels().
• Fix speaker enumeration for ALSA PCM sinks.
• Fix rendering for gradients with hue interpolation method.
• Fix rendering of layers with fractional transforms.
• Fix pasting image data (like image/png) from the clipboard.
• Fix importing a WPEBufferAndroid as an EGLImage when using EGL 1.4 or older.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.51.1.tar.xz (42.0 MiB)
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