This is the first development release leading towards the 2.30 series.
What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.29.1?
- Add Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) support.
- Add
webkit_authentication_request_get_security_origin()
. - Add support for video formats in
<img>
elements. - Add API to handle video autoplay policy that now defaults to disallow autoplay videos with audio.
- Add API to mute a web view.
- Add API to allow applications to handle the HTTP authentication credential storage.
- Add API to configure and handle the DOM cache.
- Add API to configure and handle Service Worker registrations.
- Add a
WebKitSettings
property to set the media content types requiring hardware support. - Add support for
sndio
to the Bubblewrap sandbox. - Add support for website data to the existing permission request API.
- Add support for rendering many user interface controls (scroll bars, progress bars, spin buttons, menu lists, sliders, etc.)
- Add
USER_AGENT_BRANDING
build option. - Use a mobile
User-Agent
string on tablets and handheld devices. - Change the cookies accept policy to always when no-third-party is set and ITP is enabled.
- Enable kinetic scrolling with async scrolling.
- Bubblewrap sandbox should not attempt to bind empty paths.
- Fix several race conditions and threading issues in the media player.
- Fix web process hangs on large GitHub pages.
- Fix a race condition causing a crash in media player.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
Checksums
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