WebKitGTK 2.37.1 released!
WebKitGTK 2.37.1 is available for download at:
https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.37.1.tar.xz (31.4MB)
md5sum: 11a5a291784349cc26b892bfdadeff87
sha1sum: c61cc88556653dc8295fd6c463dc02b3357fb2c0
sha256sum: c53326b1751f8c6da3db2f4bfa91c1801755893e287d0e1f6c07344589d4a6a7
This is the first development release leading toward 2.38 series.
What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.37.1 release?
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- Add initial implementation of WebRTC using GstWebRTC if GStreamer 1.20 is available,
disabled by default via web view settings.
- Add new API to set WebView's Content-Security-Policy for web extensions support.
- Add new API to run async JavaScript functions.
- Expose typed arrays in JavaScriptCore GLib API.
- Add support for PDF documents using PDF.js.
- Show font name and font variant settings in the inspector.
- MediaSession is enabled by default, allowing remote media control using MPRIS.
- Modernized media controls UI.
- Add Support Google Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI).
- Add support for capturing encoded video streams from a webcam.
- Make it possible to use the remote inspector from other browsers using WEBKIT_INSPECTOR_HTTP_SERVER env var.
- Add support for IPv6 in the remote inspector.
- Update form elements style to match libadwaita.
- Fix canvas animations and images with threaded rendering enabled.
- Switch to use gi-docgen for API documentation instead of gtk-doc.
- Remove the ATK a11y implementation that has been replaced by AT-SPI DBus interfaces.
- 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,
July 12, 2022
The first development release of the WebKitGTK 2.38 series on now available for testing.
