WebKitGTK+ 2.18.5, a bug fix release in the stable 2.18 series has been released. WebKitGTK+ is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine.



What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.18.5 release?

- Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API.
- Reduce the precision of "high" resolution time to 1ms.
- Fix API documentation generation with newer gtk-doc.
- Security fixes: includes improvements to mitigate the effects of Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715).

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+ 2.18.5 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.18.5.tar.xz (14.1MB)
md5sum: af18c2cfa00cadfd0b4d8db21cab011d
sha1sum: 5f36db464f6b7bbe6a57e55bc9bb172f87a4c398
sha256sum: 0c6d80cc7eb5d32f8063041fa11a1a6f17a29765c2f69c6bc862cd47c2d539b8

  WebKitGTK+ 2.18.5 released