WPE WebKit 2.54.0 released

This is the first stable release in the 2.54 series.

Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.54.0 release

• The WPEPlatform embedding API is now considered stable and enabled by default at build configuration time. The legacy libwpe-based API is still available, and may be deprecated in the future.
• Add new API for page favicons, using WebKitFaviconDatabase and the WebKitWebView:page-icons property.
• Add the WebKitWebView:magnification property, to handle visual scaling.
• Add new API to allow setting a per-navigation custom User-Agent to WebKitWebsitePolicies.
• Add support for gamepad rumble effects.
• Add support for spell checking using the Enchant library.
• Add initial support for the Pointer Lock API.
• Switch Web Process compositor to use Skia instead of TextureMapper.
• Improved WebXR implementation, which now includes support for the Layers API.
• Improved damage handling that is now also used during the composition to limit the composited areas.
• Implement GPU atlas creation and replay substitution for batched raster image uploads.
• Media capability reporting is more accurate.
• Video decoding limits are now respected in media capabilities queries.
• Remove the option to use Cairo for 2D rendering.

For more details about all the changes included in WPE WebKit 2.54 see the NEWS file that is included in the tarball.

Checksums

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