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Adrian Perez de Castro has announced the release of WebKitGTK 2.34.5.



WebKitGTK 2.34.5 released!

WebKitGTK 2.34.5 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.34.5.tar.xz  (23.3MB)
md5sum: 2d135a21e89f273072e90950b09b10c3
sha1sum: f150cdd932db81f719606428aad7978e6c9d813f
sha256sum: 68930643af7a47a3af05f46d66e784422433753dab335d3282f319a85a5629b4

This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.34 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.34.5 release?
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- Improve VP8 codec selection when using GStreamer 1.20.
- Fix connecting to the accessiblity bus when using the Bubblewrap sandbox.
- Fix links being incorrectly activated when starting a pinch zoom gesture.
- Fix touch-based scrolling.
- Fix the build with recent toolchains based on GCC 12 and on older ones as included e.g. in Ubuntu 18.04.
- Fix the build with ICU 60, version 61 is no longer required.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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 #webkitgtk IRC channel at irc.gnome.org or on Matrix at #webkitgtk:matrix.org.

- 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,
February 09, 2022

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