A new development release of WebKitGTK has been released
WebKitGTK 2.27.3 is available for download at:
https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.27.3.tar.xz (19.9MB)
md5sum: 23501de75ce5d6dc4f0d828953f93f2b
sha1sum: 4bfe5ae01c1702853b778f8609322bc1dac7d638
sha256sum: 5390d0b41957834202893887f1ac04e3264b6a3d98160d4166e3c8c16bdb7492
This is a development release leading toward 2.28 series.
What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.27.3 release?
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- Add support for Pointer Lock API.
- Improve performance when falling back to system fonts.
- Stop using DBus for the remote inspector implementation to improve the performance of both
WebDriver and remote inspector.
- Implement support for new ARIA roles: code, strong, emphasis, generic.
- Fix handling of content type with new custom protocols implementation.
- Make image decoders fully thread safe.
- Add support for get page source command in WebDriver.
- Add support for network proxy capabilities in WebDriver.
- Add support for new window command in WebDriver.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Ukrainian.
What is WebKitGTK?
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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.
More information
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If you want to know more about the project or get in touch with us
you may:
- Visit our website at https://www.webkitgtk.org, or the upstream
site at https://www.webkit.org. People interested in contributing
should read: https://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html.
- Browse the bug list at https://bugs.webkit.org, WebKitGTK bugs are
typically prefixed by "[GTK]." A bug report with a minimal,
reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch.
- Join the #webkit and #webkitgtk IRC channels at irc.freenode.net.
- Subscribe to the WebKitGTK mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk, or the
WebKit development mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Thanks
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Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they
are far too many to list!
The WebKitGTK team,
November 26, 2019
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Carlos Garcia Campos
