WPE WebKit 2.53.1 released

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This is the first development release leading towards the 2.54 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.53.1?

  • Remove the option to use Cairo for 2D rendering.
  • Implement GPU atlas creation and replay substitution for batched raster image uploads.
  • Improve handling of real-time threads.
  • Improve non accelerated composited mode by using the same buffer sharing implementation as accelerated mode.
  • Add new API for page favicons.
  • Add webkit_feature_list_find() to the public API.
  • Add new WPEPlatform API to notify of changes in buffers used to render the contents of a WPEView.
  • Add WPEPlatform setting to toggle overlay scrollbars.
  • Fix web view focus handling for touch input in the built-in WPEPlatform Wayland implementation.
  • Fix V4L2 hardware accelerated media codecs now working due to overly restrictive sandbox device access rules.
  • Fix linking the WPE Qt binding in some cases due to undefined symbols.
  • Support PGO features in regular CMake builds.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

wpewebkit-2.53.1.tar.xz (39.8 MiB)
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   sha1sum: 605c5b5654060f1abf3d9db6e42cc0fcffb70abb
   sha256sum: 1d614a5426e590198a6ee47adca31bb7c57ad15226b560fc260f2f12e65e413f

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