WebKitGTK+ 2.9.4 released!



WebKitGTK+ 2.9.4 is available for download at:

http://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.9.4.tar.xz (10.4MB)
   md5sum: e17a76b18e1d67c4eac2495f55970964
   sha256sum: a5ada748feebf461deafbe9d392a819313ffa2c89fe987bf60cea9be75642faa

This is a development release leading toward 2.10 series.

What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.9.4 release?
===========================================

  - Fix the window size reported when the web view isn't realized yet. This fixes
    the layout of some websites when opening new tabs in the browser and anchor links
    when opened in new tabs too.
  - Add API to be notified about editor state changes.
  - Add selection-changed signal to the Web Extensions API.
  - Add initial WebKitWebsiteDataManager API for process configuration options.
  - Make WebSQL work by using a default quota instead of always failing in openDatabase
    with DOM Exception 18.
  - Correctly restore accelerated compositing after a WebProcess crash.
  - Only enable the input methods filter when there's an editable element focused.
  - Fix a crash on memory allocation using bmalloc on 32bit systems.
  - Allow to build with X11 and Wayland targets at the same time.
  - Fix a crash when spell checker returns no guesses.
  - Update and optimize some of the web inspector icons.
  - Translation updates: Swedish.

What is WebKitGTK+?
===================

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.

Requirements
============

gtk+ >= 3.6.0
glib >= 2.36
libsoup >= 2.42.0
cairo >= 1.10.2
libxml >= 2.8.0
libxslt >= 1.1.7
HarfBuzz >= 0.9.2
icu
fontconfig >= 2.8.0
FreeType2 >= 2.4.2
libsecret
SQLite
enchant

Depending on your configuration options WebKitGTK+ may also depend on:

gtk+ >= 2.24.10
GObject introspection
gstreamer >= 1.0.3
GeoClue >= 2.1.5
gudev
cairo-gl >= 1.10.2

More information
================

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

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

- Browse the bug list at http://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,
  http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk, or the
  WebKit development mailing list,
  http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev

Thanks
======

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

The WebKitGTK+ team,
July 22, 2015
-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3

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