This is the first development release leading towards the 2.46 series.
What’s new in WPE WebKit 2.45.1?
- Use Skia by default instead of Cairo for rendering. Cairo support may still be built passing
-DUSE_SKIA=OFF
to CMake. - Synchronize WebGL content using fences, where available.
- Disable the
gst-libav
AAC decoder. - Support
AXActiveElement
andAXSelectedChildren
for combo boxes, lists and list boxes. - Decrease input notifications for gamepad inputs.
- Make gamepads visible on axis movements, and not only on button presses.
- Improve DMA-BUF format negotiation and buffer allocation to facilitate faster code paths in buffer handling.
- Make user scripts and style sheets visible in the Web Inspector.
- Make hole-punch media playback support video elements with rounded corners.
- Enable by default building support for the MediaSession and WebCodecs APIs.
- Allow WebDriver connections to already running browsers.
- Support downloading files from the Web Inspector when using HTTP remote connections.
- Replace build-time per-platform multimedia support option with quirks
applied at runtime. Automatic quirk detection is used by default, and
quirks may be overriden using the
WEBKIT_GST_QUIRKS
andWEBKIT_GST_HOLE_PUNCH
environment variables. - Deprecate the
WebKitWebView::insecure-content-detected
signal. - Fix mouse location in WebDriver when output device scaling is in effect.
- Fix touch input event propagation.
- Fix missing mouse cursor in the WPE Wayland platform support.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
Checksums
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