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=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.6
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.6?

  - Support :has() CSS selectors in content filters.
  - Apply basic font properties as font variation settings.
  - The Bubblewrap sandbox no longer requires setting an application
    identifier via GApplication to operate correctly. Using GApplication
    is still recommended, but optional.
  - Improvements to the GStreamer multimedia playback, in particular
    around MSE, WebRTC, and seeking.
  - Fix the build with journald support enabled when using elogind
    instead of the systemd libraries.
  - Fix the build with Link-Time Optimization enabled (-flto=auto).
  - Fix context menus not working in the remote Web Inspector.
  - Fix usage of the remote Web Inspector over HTTP.
  - Fix debug logs not being emitted in release builds.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.5
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.5?

  - Fix large memory allocation when uploading content.
  - Fix scrolling after a history navigation with PSON enabled.
  - Always update the active URI of WebKitFrame.
  - Fix the build with the external hole-punch media playback enabled.
  - Fix the build on Ubuntu 20.04.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.4
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.4?

  - Improve GStreamer multimedia playback across the board with improved
    codec selection logic, better handling of latency, and improving
    frame discard to avoid audio/video desynchronizationg, among other
    fixes.
  - Disable HLS media playback by default, which makes web sites use MSE
    instead. If needed WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_HLS_SUPPORT=1 can be set in the
    environment to enable it back.
  - Fix MediaSession API not showing artwork images.
  - Fix MediaSession MPRIS usage when running inside a Flatpak sandbox.
  - Fix input element controls to correctly scale when applying a zoom
    factor different than the default.
  - Fix leakage of Web processes in certain situations.
  - Fix the injected bundle not being found when running inside a sandbox.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_INTROSPECTION when cross-compiling.
  - FIx the build with ENABLE_WEBGL disabled.
  - Fix the build with GStreamer-based WebRTC enabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.3
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.3?

 - Fix runtime critical warnings from media player.
 - Fix network process crash when fetching website data on ephemeral session.
 - Fix the build with Ruby 3.2.
 - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.2
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.2?

  - Fix scrolling issues in some sites having fixed background.
  - Fix prolonged buffering during progressive live playback.
  - Fix the build with accessibility disabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.1?

  - Make xdg-dbus-proxy work if host session bus address is an abstract socket.
  - Use a single xdg-dbus-proxy process when sandbox is enabled.
  - Fix high resolution video playback due to unimplemented changeType operation.
  - Ensure GSubprocess uses posix_spawn() again and inherit file descriptors.
  - Fix player stucking in buffering (paused) state for progressive streaming.
  - Do not try to preconnect on link click when link preconnect setting is disabled.
  - Fix close status code returned when the client closes a WebSocket in some cases.
  - Fix media player duration calculation.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.38.0
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.38.0?

  - Fix jumpy elements when scrolling GitLab with async scrolling.
  - Fix kinetic scrolling with elements that use overflow scrolling.
  - Fix WebKitWebView:web-process-terminated signal not being emitted
    for the first web view when sandboxing is enabled.
  - Fix build with CMake < 3.17.
  - Fix the build with GStreamer < 1.18.
  - Fix the build when targeting Android.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

==================
WPE WebKit 2.37.91
==================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.37.91?

  - Cache and reuse image-based backing stores to improve memory consumption.
  - Deprecate enable-frame-flattening setting because the functionality will
    be removed in 2.40.
  - Fix deadlock when disposing player while handling rotation tag.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  - Translation updates: Polish.

==================
WPE WebKit 2.37.90
==================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.37.90?

  - Remove the libnotify dependency.
  - Add support for generating crash reports using Breakpad.
  - Add support for service worker notifications.
  - Add support for loading notification icons.
  - Add support for PAC proxy in the WebDriver implementation.
  - Fix the build with USE_SYSTEM_MALLOC=ON.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.37.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.37.1?

  - Add initial implementation of WebRTC using GstWebRTC if GStreamer 1.20 is available,
    disabled by default via web view settings.
  - Add new API to set WebView's Content-Security-Policy for web extensions support.
  - Add new API to run async JavaScript functions.
  - Expose typed arrays in JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add support for PDF documents using PDF.js.
  - Show font name and font variant settings in the inspector.
  - MediaSession is enabled by default, allowing remote media control using MPRIS.
  - Modernized media controls UI.
  - Add Support Google Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI).
  - Add support for capturing encoded video streams from a webcam.
  - Make it possible to use the remote inspector from other browsers using WEBKIT_INSPECTOR_HTTP_SERVER env var.
  - Add support for IPv6 in the remote inspector.
  - Update form elements style to match libadwaita.
  - Fix canvas animations and images with threaded rendering enabled.
  - Switch to use gi-docgen for API documentation instead of gtk-doc.
  - Remove the ATK a11y implementation that has been replaced by AT-SPI DBus interfaces.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.35.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.35.1?

  - Make user interactive threads (event handler, scrolling, etc.) real time
    on Linux.
  - Add new API to set HTTP response information to custom URI schemes.
  - Add support for the MediaSession API.
  - Add initial support, disabled by default at build time, for the JPEG-XL
	image format.
  - Make the WPE Qt API use only public WPE library symbols, which makes
    it possible to build it separately from the rest of WebKit.
  - Fix jsc_value_object_define_property_accessor() to work with objects
    not having a wrapped instance.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.33.2
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.33.2?

  - HTTP/2 support when building with libsoup3.
  - Add API to disable CORS on a web view for particular domains.
  - Remove dependency on the GStreamer glvideoflip and videoflip elements.
  - Support building with the uClibc C standard library.
  - Ensure WebKitScriptWorld::window-object-cleared signal is always emitted.
  - Fix rendering of VP9 with transparency.
  - Fix handling of elements with position:sticky in RTL layers with scroll
	overflow.
  - Fix handling of 2D axis input events.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.33.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.33.1?

  - Add support for CSS Scroll Snap.
  - Add basic support for ICC color management.
  - Build with libsoup3 by default.
  - Add new API to handle web process unresponsiveness.
  - Add support for link preconnect when building with libsoup3.
  - Refectores Media Source Extensions (MSE) platform code to increase
    stability and ease adding more features in the futures.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.31.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.31.1?

  - Remove support for NPAPI plugins.
  - Enable the web process cache when PSON is enabled too.
  - TLS errors and proxy settings APIs have been moved from WebKitContext to WebKitWebsiteDataManager.
  - Add new API to remove individual scripts/stylesheets using WebKitUserContentManager.
  - Correctly apply the system font scaling factor.
  - Show main loop frames information in the web inspector.
  - Internal audio rendering support. The WebProcess can now maintain a single
    connection to the system audio daemon and perform audio mixing internally.
	For the time being this has to be enabled at runtime through the
	WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_AUDIO_MIXER=1 environment variable.
  - On-demand GStreamer initialization support, mostly contained to WebProcess.
    GStreamer used to be initialized unconditionally once from the UI process
	and once from the WebProcess. GStreamer is now used mostly only from the
    WebProcess, even for audio/video capture devices probing. Users of the
    webkit_web_view_can_show_mime_type API will still trigger GStreamer
    initialization in the UIProcess though.
  - ImageDecoder video decoder switched to decodebin3.
  - WebAudio to MediaStream support.
  - Multi-channel (>2) support for the AudioFileReader.
  - Multi-channel (>2) support for the WebAudio renderer.
  - Audio worklet support.
  - Optional support for native formats rendering.
  - Opus support for the Thunder CDM.
  - Common-encryption support for CMAF in Thunder CDM.
  - MSE/EME/WebAudio and general media playback bug fixes.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.29.2
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.29.2?

  - Add support for backdrop filters.
  - Add support for text-underline-offset and text-decoration-thickness.
  - Add OpenCDM and AV1 support to media backend.
  - Add new API to get ITP data summary.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.29.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.29.1?

  - Add Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) support.
  - Add webkit_authentication_request_get_security_origin.
  - Add support for video formats in img elements.
  - Add API to handle video autoplay policy that now defaults to disallow autoplay videos with audio.
  - Add API to mute a web view.
  - Add API to allow applications to handle the HTTP authentication credential storage.
  - Add API to configure and handle the DOM cache.
  - Add API to configure and handle Service Worker registrations.
  - Add a WebKitSetting to set the media content types requiring hardware support.
  - Add support for sndio to bubblewrap sandbox.
  - Add support for website data to the existing permission request API.
  - Add support for rendering many user interface controls (scroll bars, progress bars,
    spin buttons, menu lists, sliders, etc.)
  - Add USER_AGENT_BRANDING build option.
  - Use a mobile User-Agent string on tablets and handheld devices.
  - Change the cookies accept policy to always when no-third-party is set and ITP is enabled.
  - Enable kinetic scrolling with async scrolling.
  - Bubblewrap sandbox should not attempt to bind empty paths.
  - Fix several race conditions and threading issues in the media player.
  - Fix web process hangs on large GitHub pages.
  - Fix a race condition causing a crash in media player.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.27.4
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.3?

  - Add API for input methods.
  - Add API to serialize/deserialize a JSCValue to/from a JSON string.
  - Add WebKitOptionMenu API.
  - Add support for strict secure cookies.
  - Add support for saving data from remote inspector.
  - Support client-side video rendering using DMA-BUF to share frames across processes.
  - Fix rendering of conic gradients in high resolution displays.
  - Fix special combination characters not respecting the keystroke order when high CPU load.
  - Honor the IndexedDB directory set in WebsiteDataManager.
  - Fix rendering of text when there's an initial advance in the text run.
  - Fix web process crash when displaying a KaTeX formula.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.27.3
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.3?

  - Improve performance when falling back to system fonts.
  - Stop using DBus for the remote inspector implementation to improve the performance of both
    WebDriver and remote inspector.
  - Implement support for new ARIA roles: code, strong, emphasis, generic.
  - Fix handling of content type with new custom protocols implementation.
  - Make image decoders fully thread safe.
  - Add support for get page source command in WebDriver.
  - Add support for network proxy capabilities in WebDriver.
  - Add support for new window command in WebDriver.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.27.2
=================

  - Add user messages API for the communication with the web extension.
  - Enable service workers by default.
  - Fix the build with WebDriver disabled.
  - Show also client EGL extensions in about:gpu.
  - Fix the build with unified sources disabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.27.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.1?

  - Enable asynchronous scrolling.
  - Add about:gpu to show information about the graphics stack.
  - Add WebKitWebView:page-id property.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_WEBDRIVER=OFF.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.25.1
=================

  - Enable process switch on cross site navigation.
  - Fix rendering artifacts in youtube volume button.
  - Fix trapezoid artifact in github comment box.
  - Enable hyperlink auditing setting by default.
  - Fix HLS streams being slow to start.
  - Add support for subprocess sandboxing.
  - Add API to get the web process unique identifier of a WebKitFrame.
  - Add WebKitWebPage::did-associate-form-controls-for-frame signal and deprecate did-associate-form-controls.
  - Implement AtkComponentIface scroll_to methods.
  - Fix touch capabilities detection for websites checking touch events properties present in window or pointer media queries.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.


==================
WPE WebKit 2.21.91
==================

What' new in WPE WebKit 2.21.2?

  - Add API to evaluate code in a new object to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to check for syntax errors in given code to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Update jsc_context_evaluate_with_source_uri() to receive also a starting line number.
  - Add API to allow creating variadic functions to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to run javascript from a WebKitWebView in an isolated world.
  - Disable Gigacage if mmap fails to allocate in Linux.
  - Fix WebProcess crash when trying to use the remote Web Inspector.
  - Fix a network process crash when trying to get cookies of about:blank page.
  - Fix some frames being dropped when using requestAnimationFrame() to animate elements.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.


=================
WPE WebKit 2.21.2
=================

What' new in WPE WebKit 2.21.2?

  - Add initial support for the fullscreen Web API.
  - Add initial implementation of WebDriver advance user interaction commands.
  - Add introspectable alternatives for functions using vargars to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Fix memory pressure monitor to reliably notify all subprocesses.
  - Fix building with the Raspberry Pi userland GPU driver and certain versions of GStreamer-GL.
  - Fix building with the ICU headers in a non-default directory.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

=================
WPE WebKit 2.21.1
=================

What's new in WPE WebKit 2.21.1?

  - Everything. This is the first release. Enjoy.