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 Promiseandawait(reference).
- Allow handling the WebKitDownload::decide-destination signal asynchronously.
- Allow copying the contents of webkit://gputo 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
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