This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.24 series.
Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.24.1 release
- Do not allow changes in active URI before provisional load starts for non-API requests.
- Stop the threaded compositor when the page is not visible or layer tree state is frozen.
- Use WebKit HTTP source element again for adaptive streaming fragments downloading.
- Properly handle empty resources in
webkit_web_resource_get_data()
. - Add quirk to ensure
outlook.live.com
uses the modern UI. - Fix methods returing
GObject
or boxed types in the JavaScriptCore GLib API. - Ensure callback data is passed to functions and constructors with no parameters in the JavaScriptCore GLib API.
- Fix rendering of complex text when the font uses x,y origins.
- Fix sound loop with Google Hangouts and WhatsApp notifications.
- Fix the build with GStreamer 1.12.5 and Gst-GL enabled.
- Fix event source priorities to avoid starvation causing the NetworkProcess to be killed in constraned environments.
- Detect SSE2 at compile time.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Security fixes: CVE-2019-6251.
Checksums
wpewebkit-2.24.1.tar.xz (16.1MB) md5sum: 0f7b792874853416d8005b020bd90685 sha1sum: d009c82afbc2c373a7f34ffda392e5c3b52dac7d sha256sum: 95f2fb68429fbd901ea415d09fdd88d6d9ac5ec2d170bec9977093b12e5093a6