GNOME 3617 Published by

Carlos Garcia Campos has announced the release of WebKitGTK 2.31.90.



WebKitGTK 2.31.90 released!

WebKitGTK 2.31.90 is available for download at:

https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.31.90.tar.xz (22.2MB)
md5sum: 3191b434a62e4aea1080d7ede469432c
sha1sum: f6e563151933c77aef83c238b75e56177769dc6d
sha256sum: 1750ea7853914e05cda807b703ef6e2ddb9bbf53c3566777bbcfde33ae9063c9

This is a development release leading toward 2.32 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.31.90 release?
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- Add permission request API for MediaKeySystem access.
- Fix rendering when using opacity filters on hardware accelerated layers.
- Fix flatpak-spawn subsandbox to not clear environment variables.
- Ensure a URI scheme handler can't be registered multiple times.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- The minimum required GStreamer version is now 1.14.
- CEA-608 closed captions support (requires WEBKIT_GST_USE_PLAYBIN3=1 environment variable).
- Advertise CBCS decryption and VP9 support in Thunder.
- Advertise DASH as supported in the media player.
- Improved support for playbin3.
- Translation updates: Ukrainian.

What is WebKitGTK?
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WebKitGTK is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine. Offering WebKit's full functionality through a set of GObject-based APIs, it is suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers.

More information
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If you want to know more about the project or get in touch with us you may:

- Visit our website at https://www.webkitgtk.org, or the upstream
site at https://www.webkit.org. People interested in contributing
should read: https://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html.

- Browse the bug list at https://bugs.webkit.org, WebKitGTK bugs are
typically prefixed by "[GTK]." A bug report with a minimal,
reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch.

- Join the #webkit and #webkitgtk IRC channels at irc.freenode.net.

- Subscribe to the WebKitGTK mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk, or the
WebKit development mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev

Thanks
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Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they are far too many to list!

The WebKitGTK team,
February 26, 2021

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