WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92, a development release leading toward 2.18 series, has been released. WebKitGTK+ is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine. Offering WebKit's full functionality through a set of GObject-based APIs, it is suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers.



What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 release?

- Improve CPU usage when rendering under Wayland in accelerated compositing mode.
- Improve the memory consumption of the UI process under Wayland.
- Fix rendering issues in some web sites with accelerated compositing enabled.
- Fix a web process crash when closing the WebView.
- Initialize libgcrypt in the network process too.
- Show controls if a video element isn't allowed to play inline.
- Add support for cookies and screenshots commands in WebDriver.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Polish.

Requirements

gtk+ >= 3.6.0
glib >= 2.36
libsoup >= 2.42.0
cairo >= 1.10.2
libxml >= 2.8.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
HarfBuzz >= 0.9.2
icu
fontconfig >= 2.8.0
FreeType2 >= 2.4.2
libsecret
SQLite
enchant

Depending on your configuration options WebKitGTK+ may also depend on:

gtk+ >= 2.24.10
GObject introspection
gstreamer >= 1.2.3
GeoClue >= 2.1.5
gudev
cairo-gl >= 1.10.2

WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.17.92.tar.xz (14.0MB)
md5sum: 0d15aca5c29983c4f805aadb578cf6a2
sha1sum: d62cccbf96589b4931ffd68cb38b26fff11c98fd
sha256sum: e22478a1631fdbd2b9ca1622bcd51ec296e04cbe7c5f480b482450f91cabff34