WPE WebKit 2.52.0 released

This is the first stable release in the 2.52 series.

Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.52.0 release

• Make text look like in other browsers by blending in linear color space.
• Improved rendering performance by using a different tile size depending on whether GPU rendering is enabled or not.
• Improved composition scheduling to avoid blocking waiting for tile painting.
• Improved performance of accelerated 2D canvas by recording operations for batched replay.
• Improved asynchronous scrolling when main thread is busy by avoiding locks and rendering the scroll bars from the scrolling thread.
• Enabled dynamic MSAA for accelerated 2D canvas rendering.
• Improved text rendering performance.
• Videos with BT2100-PQ color space are now tone-mapped to SDR, ensuring colours do not appear washed out.
• Improved behaviour of context menus and added some missing functionality.
• Improved the WPEPlatform API all around, and added support for building exclusively using with it, making libwpe unnecessary in that case.
• Removed the WPE Qt5 API binding. The Qt6 API is still available.
• Improved support for targeting Android, taking advantage of a number of Android-specific technologies (logging, hardware buffers, etc.)
• Added support to use the WPEPlatform API on Android.
• Added support for the Audio Output Devices API.
• Added API to take image snapshots of web views.
• Added API to handle WebXR permission requests.
• Added API to query the immersive session status.
• Added initial API for web extensions.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.52.0.tar.xz (61.8 MiB)
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   sha1sum: a3f3ae35cf57037975433249a31f7d1c18a43c1c
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