WPE WebKit 2.51.90 released

This is a development release leading towards the 2.52 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.51.90?

• Improve performance of accelerated 2D canvas by recording operations for batched replay.
• Remove the WPE Qt5 API binding. The Qt6 API is still available.
• Add support to optinally use the WOFF2 support from FreeType. When enabled, the libwoff2 library is not needed.
• Add support for damage propagation in non-composited mode.
• Add webkit_context_menu_get_position() and webkit_context_menu_item_get_title().
• Add hyphenation support through libhyphen. The feature may be toggled at build time via the USE_LIBHYPHEN CMake option.
• Add WPEPlatform API to notify of graphics buffers configuration changes for a WPEView.
• Add WPEPlatform API to create toplevels using wpe_display_create_toplevel().
• When using WPEPlatform, rendering of web views is now paused while they are detached from a WPEToplevel.
• Change context menu behaviour to match the GTK port more closely.
• Change WPEScreenSyncObserver to support multiple callbacks.
• Fix handling of touch scrolling in builds configured with ENABLE_WPE_LEGACY_API=OFF.
• Fix introspection annotations in wpe_buffer_formats_builder_end() to properly indicate ownership of the passed WPEBufferFormatsBuilder reference.
• Fix web process translatable strings to follow system locale.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

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