WPE WebKit 2.51.2 released

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This is a development release leading towards the 2.52 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.51.2?

  • Add WebKitImage utility class that will be used for favicons and snapshots.
  • Videos with BT2100-PQ colorspace are now tone-mapped to SDR, ensuring colours do not appear washed out.
  • Use a run loop observer also to notify the main thread when composition is done.
  • Remove the hybrid rendering mode now that we are computing a different tile size for GPU and CPU rendering modes.
  • Make jsc_value_array_buffer_get_data() introspectable.
  • Make webkit_web_view_add_frame_displayed_callback() work with WPEPlatform.
  • Restrict allowed URI protocols for media playback.
  • Removed support in the MiniBrowser for the unstable zxdg_shell_v6 Wayland protocol when using the legacy API.
  • Add support in the MiniBrowser for --maximized and --fullscreen when using the legacy API.
  • Add rendering and buffer formats information to webkit://gpu.
  • Enable dynamic MSAA for accelerated 2D canvas rendering.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.51.2.tar.xz (40.1 MiB)
   md5sum: 0a71ae366f45a1310e2aa35f20af2471
   sha1sum: 7f57c52dfd3a7c5a89a47234d8724be298dbf6ff
   sha256sum: 18e006dd96c770e80536b4fada8e6f543339948ec7834a58dd40fab01b2de705

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