WPE WebKit 2.53.90 released

This is a development release leading towards the 2.54 series.

What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.53.90?

• Do not support rendering tiles in the main thread in accelerated compositing mode.
• Add magnification property to WebKitWebView to handle visual scaling.
• Add new API to allow setting a per-navigation custom User-Agent to WebKitWebsitePolicies.
• Add WEBKIT_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH to the API (and conversely WPE_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH in WPEPlatform) which allows detecting when values of an input fields are expected to be search terms.
• Improved platform media queries to handle prefers reduced motion, high contrast and dark theme.
• Improved drag-and-drop support.
• Allow disabling font subpixel rendering, which is now the default setting and matches font the default rendering in most desktop environments.
• Add a feature flag to support skipping caching of pages with multimedia content in the back-forward cache.
• Add a built-in popup menu support, used as the default implementation when the WebKitWebView::show-option-menu signal is left unhandled.
• Add initial support for the Pointer Lock API, which may be enabled at build time with the ENABLE_POINTER_LOCK CMake option.
• MiniBrowser now handles the SIGTERM and SIGINT signals, and exits cleanly.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Checksums

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