WebKitGTK 2.54.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

WebKitGTK 2.54.0

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.54.0?

• Fix contents being y-flipped on GTK3 when using SHM or GBM mapped buffers.
• Take into account the layer transform when deciding the sampling options of compositing tiles.
• Fix clipping of single child layer which has filter outsets.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.92

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.92?

• Fix opacity animation not damaging descendant layers.
• Fix expiration date of favicons in the icon database.
• Fix webkit_web_view_get_tls_info() that sometimes returned FALSE for valid HTTPS connections.
• Fix documentation of webkit_web_view_call_async_javascript_function.
• Use a Chrome user agent for PrimeVideo.
• Fix the build with USE_SPIEL=ON.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.91

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.91?

• Handle video orientation in skia compositor.
• Do not use cached credentials when Authorization header is present.
• Fix scrollbar rendering issues due to incorrect damage.
• Add log fallback when journald is not reachable
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.90

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.90?

• Do not support rendering tiles in the main thread in accelerated compositing mode.
• Add magnification property to WebKitWebView to handle visual scaling.
• Add new API to allow setting a per-navigation custom User-Agent to WebKitWebsitePolicies.
• Improved platform media queries to handle prefers reduced motion, high contrast and dark theme.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
• Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Slovenian.

WebKitGTK 2.53.4

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.4?

• Implemented batched painting in skia compositor, which improves performance when there are many layers that can be painted in the same operation.
• Avoid unnecessary clips when possible in skia compositor.
• Fix synchronization issues between main, scrolling and compositing threads causing glitches while scrolling in some cases.
• Limit the damage region of the scrollbar to the region actually painted.
• Add support for image/webp to canvas.toDataURL().
• Expose search inputs as WEBKIT_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH.
• Add User-Agent quirk for HBO Max.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.3

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.3?

• Switch web process compositor to use Skia instead of TextureMapper.
• Fix missing glyph before ZWJ/ZWNJ if no font is found for the cluster.
• Add support for half width fonts.
• Support time zone change notifications on linux.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.2

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.2?

• Only use DMA-BUF mapping for writing to the GPU atlas when possible.
• Do not resolve '-apple-system' font to default system font.
• Set real time limits when not using the portal.
• Report support for supported non-AAC mp4a codecs.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

WebKitGTK 2.53.1

What's new in WebKitGTK 2.53.1?

• Remove the option to use cairo for 2D rendering.
• Implement GPU atlas creation and replay substitution for batched raster image uploads.
• Improved non accelerated composited mode by using the same buffer sharing implementation as accelerated mode.
• The on-demand hardware acceleration policy is now deprecated in GTK3 API.
• Add new improved API for page favicons.
• Add webkit_feature_list_find() to public API.
• Support PGO features in regular CMake builds.
• Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits:

2240b07a36 Update to glycin-2.2.1.
603afed78d Update to xfsprogs-7.2.0.
b567a02984 Update to WebKitGTK-2.54.0.
7b84efa233 Update to x265_4.3.