This is the first stable release in the 2.40 series.
Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.40.0 release
- The new 2.0 API is now considered stable. It is still possible to build the
old 1.0 API using
-USE_SOUP2=ON
, or the 1.1 API using-DENABLE_WPE_1_1_API=ON
. - Support for WebGL 2, built on top of ANGLE.
- Support for the Speech Synthesis API,
using Flite. This may be disabled at build
time using
-DENABLE_SPEECH_SYNTHESIS=OFF
, which also avoids the Flite dependency. - Support client-side TLS certificates over WebSocket connections.
- Support CSS
background-repeat: space
. - Added new API to respond to permission requests for a number of web-facing features (reference).
- Added new API to register user script message handlers that return values asynchronously (reference).
- Added new API to get the request body of a
WebKitURISchemeRequest
(reference). - Added new API to run JavaScript code that may use asynchronous constructs,
like
Promise
andawait
(reference). - Allow handling the WebKitDownload::decide-destination signal asynchronously.
- Allow copying the contents of
webkit://gpu
to the clipboard as JSON. - Make check boxes, radio buttons, and spin buttons scale along with the page zoom.
- Improved scrolling performance.
- Fix inordinately large memory allocations when uploading data.
Checksums
wpewebkit-2.40.0.tar.xz (35.8 MiB) md5sum: a90114f905b7996925a73dbb6a36aa72 sha1sum: 06e475479c71c829c1eb67a77cd1e7fe7f952ad0 sha256sum: a8ec2bcfa1613768ab3ce7f65cac4f214835266c2ff59440d72180baec3086b6