Changes:
WebKitGTK+ 2.12.4
==================
- Fix performance in accelerated compositing mode with the modesetting intel
driver and DRI3 enabled.
- Reduce the amount of file descriptors that the Web Process keeps open.
- Fix Web Process deadlocks when loading HLS videos.
- Make CSS and SVG animations run at 60fps.
- Make meter elements accessible.
- Improve accessibility name and description of elements to make it more
compatible with W3C specs and fix several bugs in which the accessible
name of objects was missing or broken.
- Fix a crash when running windowed plugins under Wayland.
- Fix a crash at process exit under Wayland.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: German.
- Security fixes: CVE-2016-4622, CVE-2016-4624, CVE-2016-4591, CVE-2016-4590.
Changes:
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.12.3
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.12.3?
- Improved the detection of supported MIME types supported by the media player.
- Fix web process crash when playing adaptive streaming media.
- Change the volume while thumb slider is dragged, not only when released.
- Fix leaked thread in network process.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: Hungarian.
- Security fixes: CVE-2016-1857, CVE-2016-1856.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.12.2
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.12.2?
- Fix rendering of scrollbars with GTK themes using stepper buttons.
- Fix compatibility issue with 2.12.1 regarding local storage access from file URLs.
- Make menu list buttons use the text color from the theme.
- Do not show resize grip in non-resizable text fields.
- Fix accessibility events causing Orca to echo key presses instead of speaking the
inserted characters in password fields.
- Fix an off by one error in hyphenation.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Fix the build with libjpeg v9.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Turkish.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.12.1
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.12.1?
- Fix spotify player.
- Improve themed control elements rendering to better match GTK+ widgets.
- Make remote web inspector work again.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Fix several memory leaks.
- Fix the build in Linux / PowerPC.
- Fix detection of S390X and PPC64 architectures.
- Fix the build in glibc-based BSD systems
- Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.12.0
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.12.0?
- Enable GSS-Negotiate support when available in libsoup.
- Fix overlay scrollbar indicator position.
- Fix smooth scrolling behavior that was not fixed in all cases in 2.11.92.
- Fix the build with newer versions of GCC and clang.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.92
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.92?
- Revert the patch to limit the number of tiles according to the visible area introduced in 2.11.90,
because it caused rendering issues in several popular websites.
- Fix scrollbars rendering again with GTK+ >= 3.19.11.
- Fix rendering of slider input elements.
- Fix rendering artifacts when using a web view background color.
- Make webkit_web_context_clear_cache() work again.
- Fix smooth scrolling behavior that was changed by mistake.
- Don't force ENABLE_INTROSPECTION=OFF on Mac.
- Install WebProcess and NetworkProcess on OSX when not building the Mac port.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.91
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.91?
- Do not show stale contents after session restore.
- Fix flickering and rendering artifacts when entering accelerated compositing mode
before the web view is realized.
- Fix several rendering issues and crashes.
- Fix build with FTL enabled in FreeBSD.
- Translation updates: Polish.
==================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.90
==================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.90?
- Switch to use overlay scrollbars like all other GTK+ widgets and ensure the behavior
is consistent with GTK+ too.
- Limit the number of tiles according to the visible area. This was causing a huge memory
consumption with some websites.
- Fix toggle buttons rendering with GTK+ 3.19.
- Fix HTTP authentication dialog rendering when accelerated compositing mode is enabled.
- Use G_TYPE_ERROR instead of G_TYPE_POINTER for GError parameters of signals.
- Fix several memory leaks.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.5
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.5?
- Switch FTL to use B3 backend instead of LLVM.
- Add support for windowless NPAPI plugins with no UI in non X11 platforms.
- Fix a deadlock in the Web Process when JavaScript garbage collector was running for a web
worker thread that made google maps to hang.
- Fix a Web Process crash when quickly attempting many DnD operations.
- Fix scrollbars rendering with older versions of GTK+.
- Fix a crash when creating a WebKitWebView without providing a WebKitWebContext.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.4
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.4?
- Prefer to link to LLVM shared libraries when building with FTL enabled.
- Fix runtime errors when serializing/deserializing session state.
- Fix critical warnings when loading a URL after a session restore.
- Fix the build with GTK+ < 3.14.
- Fix the build with video support disabled.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.3
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.3?
- NetworkProcess is now used unconditionally. The shared secondary process model is now
the same as using the multiple process model and setting a process limit of 1.
- Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is configured.
- Reduce the maximum simultaneous network connections to match other browsers.
- Extend notifications API to notify WebKit when a notification is clicked by the user.
- Add new API to save and restore a WebView session.
- Add Web Extensions API to be notified about console messages.
- Add WebKitURIRequest API to get the HTTP method.
- Add API to handle beforeunload events.
- Make WebKitWebView always propagate motion-notify-event signal.
- Add a way to force accelerating compositing mode at runtime using an environment variable.
- Fix input elements and scrollbars rendering with GTK+ 3.19.
- Fix a crash in the UI process when the WebView is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy
is being created.
- Fix a WebProcess crash when loading large contents with custom URI schemes API.
- Fix UI process crashes related to not having a main resource response when the load is committed
for pages restored from the history cache.
- Translation updates: French, German, Turkish
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.2
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.2?
- Enable FTL by default in JavaScriptCore for x86_64.
- Improved media backend performance by better handling glib main loop sources.
- Fix rendering of lines when using solid colors.
- Fix web process crashes due to BadDrawable X errors in accelerated compositing mode.
- Translation updates: Italian.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.11.1
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.11.1?
- Improved general performance by better handling glib main loop sources.
- Add autocleanups support to GObjects exposed in public API.
- Fixed dashed and dotted border painting.
- Upload the accelerated canvas as a texture by copying via GPU directly.
- Popup menus no longer use a nested main loop.
Changes:
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.9
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.9?
- Revert the patch to limit the number of tiles according to the visible area introduced in 2.10.8,
because it caused rendering issues in several popular websites.
- Fix the build with musl libc library.
- Fix the build with clang-3.8.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.8
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.8?
- Limit the number of tiles according to the visible area. This was causing a huge memory
consumption with some websites.
- Fix flickering and rendering artifacts when entering accelerated compositing mode
before the web view is realized.
- Fix rendering of form controls and scrollbars with GTK+ >= 3.19.
- Fix HTTP authentication dialog rendering when accelerated compositing mode is enabled.
- Fix rendering artifacts when using a web view background color.
- Fix a crash when creating a WebKitWebView without providing a WebKitWebContext.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Security fixes: CVE-2016-1726.
Changes:
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.7
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.6?
- Fix the build with GTK+ < 3.16.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.6
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.6?
- Fix a deadlock in the Web Process when JavaScript garbage collector was running for a web worker
thread that made google maps to hang.
- Fix media controls displaying without controls attribute.
- Fix a Web Process crash when quickly attempting many DnD operations.
Changes:
- Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is configured.
- Reduce the maximum simultaneous network connections to match other browsers.
- Make WebKitWebView always propagate motion-notify-event signal.
- Add a way to force accelerating compositing mode at runtime using an environment variable.
- Fix input elements and scrollbars rendering with GTK+ 3.19.
- Fix rendering of lines when using solid colors.
- Fix UI process crashes related to not having a main resource response when the load is
committed for pages restored from the history cache.
- Fix a WebProcess crash when loading large contents with custom URI schemes API.
- Fix a crash in the UI process when the WebView is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy
is being created.
- Fix WebProcess crashes due to BadDrawable X errors in accelerated compositing mode.
- Fix crashes on PPC64 due to mprotect() on address not aligned to the page size.
- Fix std::bad_function_call exception raised in dispatchDecidePolicyForNavigationAction.
- Fix downloads of data URLs.
- Fix runtime critical warnings when closing a page containing windowed plugins.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: French, German, Italian, Turkish.
- Security fixes: CVE-2015-7096, CVE-2015-7098.
Changes:
- Fixed dashed and dotted border painting.
- Properly cancel navigation policy checks.
- Several crashes fixed when running editor commands.
- Fix several crashes due to assertions in Debug builds.
- Fix the build on Mac OSX and bring back the Quartz target.
- Fix the build on glibc-based BSD systems.
Changes:
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.3?
- Fix graphics artifacts when entering/leaving Accelerated Compositing mode.
- Honour 'forwards' fill-mode in Multiple-keyframe and delayed instantaneous
animations.
- Fix runtime warning when the inspector is closed.
- Fix the build with GTK+2 plugin process disabled.
- Gracefully handle errors when sending/receiving IPC messages data on connection
close.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
In order to get rid of GCC_REQD disable IndexedDB support and
WebKitDatabaseProcess (that needs IndexedDB). Both were not present in
webkit-gtk<2.10.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Changes:
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.2
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.2?
- Fix a regression introduced in 2.10.1 that disabled accelerated
compositing.
- Fix build with cmake 3.4.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.1
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.1?
- Fix rendering of accelerated content in HiDPI screens.
- Fix several media controls rendering issues.
- Fix rendering of progress element with recent versions of GTK+.
- Add and update some web inspector icons.
- Correctly handle websites sending an invalid auth header.
- Fix a crash when creating the UI process backing store in Wayland.
- Fix the build with spellchecker disabled.
- Fix the build with touch events disabled.
- Fix the build with OpenGL disabled.
- Several build fixes on Mac OSX.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
-march=i586 in order to avoid on i386 the "-latomic" flag when linking
libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Thanks joerg@, jperkin@ and tnn@ for various suggestions.
pkgsrc changes:
o Unify Makefile.common in Makefile: newer webkit-gtk releases could not be
split in a -gtk3 version, no more need for a Makefile.common (no functional
changes intended).
o Get rid of obsolete options (no functional changes intended)
o Bump GCC_REQD to 4.9 (gcc>=4.9 is required for IndexedDB support, #145211)
o For the moment disable two new options: Geolocation support (needs
geography/geoclue) and Hyphenation support (needs libhyphen, not available at
the moment in pkgsrc).
Changes:
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.10.0
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.10.0?
- Disable ACCELERATED_2D_CANVAS by default.
- Fix a crash in debug build due to an invalid assert.
- Do not try to use the primary clipboard in Wayland.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.92
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.92?
- Data URLs are now decoded in the Web Process instead of the Network Process.
- Fix Web Process crash recovery.
- Fix a crash when sqlite3_initialize() is called from multiple threads.
- Fix the volume bar in media controls.
- Fix JavaScriptCore build with GCC 5.
- Fix the build when accelerated 2D canvas is enabled but cairo was built without GLX.
- Fix everal memory leaks.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Gujarati, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.91
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.91?
- Fix performance regression introduced in previous release when scaling images.
- Fix runtime critical warning when there are missing media plugins.
- Fix the build on systems with GTK+ compiled with an old version of wayland.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.90
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.90?
- Add API to request permission before showing PackageKit codec installation notifications.
- Fix a crash closing a page when a context menu is open.
- Fix DNS prefetch when using the network process.
- Improve image quality when using newer versions of cairo/pixman.
- Fix a crash when the web view is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy is being created.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.5
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.5?
- Add API to set the maximum number of web processes per WebKitWebContext.
- Add API to allow executing editing commands that require an argument.
- Prevent clipboard contents from being lost when web process finishes.
- Always allow font matching for strong aliases
- Move GStreamer missing plugins installer to the UI process.
- Fix empty space in popup menus when first item is selected.
- Fix a crash when SoupSession is destroyed in exit handler.
- Disable NPAPI plugins when running on Wayland.
- Translation updates: Swedish.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.4
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.4?
- 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.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.3
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.3?
- Inhibit screen saver when playing full screen video.
- Fix DOCUMENT_VIEWER cache model to actually disable the memory cache.
- Fix a regression that prevented the WebKitWebView::context-menu signal
from being emitted.
- Update web inspector icon so Rendering Frames timeline distinguish between
layout and painting.
- Ensure fragment identifier part of URI is not removed for custom URI scheme
requests.
- Improve performance of keyboard events handling.
- Expose element tag name as an object attribute to accessibility.
- Fix the build with Wayland target enabled.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.2
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.2?
- Add IndexedDB support using a dedicated database process.
- Add construct property to WebKitWebContext to set the IndexedDB database directory.
- Add allow-file-access-from-file-urls to WebKitSettings.
- Improve network process disk cache performance by mapping cached resources in the
web process instead of sending the resources data via IPC.
- Prevent WorkQueue objects from being leaked and ensure its worker thread always exits.
- webkit_dom_html_element_get_children() has been deprecated in favor of
webkit_dom_element_get_children() to match the DOM spec.
- ARIA menu items no longer have anonymous block children.
- Map pre element to ATK_ROLE_SECTION instead of ATK_ROLE_PANEL.
- Always include rows in the tree of accessible tables.
- Fix the build with Netscape plugins disabled.
- Fix XPixmaps leaked by GLContext when using EGL on X11.
- Translation updates: Catalan.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.9.1
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.9.1?
- New disk cache implementation when using the network process.
- Web inspector UI has been redesigned.
- Add support for automatic hyphenation using libhyphen when it's available.
- Fix network redirection to a non HTTP destination.
ok bsiegert@, wiz@
Changes:
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.8.5
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.8.5?
- 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.
- Prevent clipboard contents from being lost when web process finishes.
- Always allow font matching for strong aliases.
- Move GStreamer missing plugins installer to the UI process.
- Fix a crash when spell checker returns no guesses.
- Fix a crash when SoupSession is destroyed in exit handler.
- Fix a crash closing a page when default context menu is open.
- Several crashes and rendering issues fixed.
- Translation updates: Swedish.
strnstr(3) was added to NetBSD -current but is not in netbsd-7 (or
earlier releases). This patch was confirmed to still work on -current by
wiz@ (7.99.19 amd64), and on netbsd-7 by myself (7.0_RC1, amd64).
pkgsrc changes:
o Convert the osabi dependency to NOT_FOR_PLATFORM.
o Add LICENSE information (like www/webkit24-gtk)
Changes:
WebKitGTK+ 2.8.4
=================
- Make WebSQL work by using a default quota instead of always failing in openDatabase with
DOM Exception 18.
- Improve detection and usage of GL/GLES/EGL libraries.
- Fix a crash on memory allocation using bmalloc on 32bit systems.
- Fix DOCUMENT_VIEWER cache model to actually disable the memory cache.
- Fix a WebProcess crash after too many redirect error when there's an active NPAPI plugin.
- Fix a WebProcess crash when gtk-font-name setting is empty.
- Ensure Math.abs() doesn't return negative.
- Correctly restore accelerated compositing after a WebProcess crash.
- Respect X-Frame-Options headers when loading from application cache.
- Several crashes and rendering issues fixed.
- Fix the MIPS N64 detection.
- Fix several memory leaks.
- Translation updates: Catalan.
WebKitGTK+ 2.8.3
=================
- Fixed a regression introduced in 2.8.2 that broke downloads when using the network
process.
- Fix the build with Netscape plugins disabled.
- Fix XPixamps leaked by GLContext when using EGL on X11.
WebKitGTK+ 2.8.2
=================
- Fix network redirection to a non HTTP destination.
- Use a webkit subdirectory for the disk cache to avoid conflicts with other
files in the cache directory when the disk cache is cleaned up.
- Do not preserve the Origin header on on cross-origin redirects.
- Prevent WorkQueue objects from being leaked and ensure its worker thread
always exits.
2.8.1
What’s new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.8.1 release?
Handle keep-alive connections in GStreamer HTTP source element.
Fix a crash in DOMObjectCache when a wrapped object owned by the cache is unreffed by the user.
Fix rendering of drag and drop icon.
Fix the build with REDIRECTED_XCOMPOSITE_WINDOW disabled in X11 platform.
Fix the build with Wayland target enabled.
Fix the build for HPPA.
2.8
Highlights of the WebKitGTK+ 2.8.0 release
Initial gestures support.
HTML5 notifications.
User script messages.
HTML5 color input.
APNG support.
Performance improvements.
Playing audio notification signal.
Web view background colors.
and lots of changes in the 2.6 series; major changes in 2.6 were:
Highlights of the WebKitGTK+ 2.6.0 release
WebKit1 API has been removed.
Switch to CMake build system.
Binary version bump to make WebKit1 and WebKit2 parallel installable.
Several API changes.
The DOM bindings API has been split into stable and unstable parts.
Support for browser plugins using GTK+3, leaving the GTK+2
dependency optional for building a plugin process with support
for GTK+2 plugins.
HighDPI support for non-accelerated compositing contents.
Dynamic user agent string depending on the site.
User scripts API.
after building libANGLE.la.
This package is a fairly enormous build, and the build sequence changes after
resuming a partial build, so it'd be a big and unrewarding project to peg down
exactly what the failure is.
Nonetheless, bumping gmake to 4.1 seems to be a complete and well-indicated
workaround, with 100% successful builds (of several) under gmake-4.1 -j3 and
0% successful builds (of several) under gmake-3.81 -j3.
available under the native compiler, so possibly upgrade the compiler
used by dependent packages too.
Fixes, for example, building epiphany on a Linux box with native GCC 4.6.1.
WebKitGTK+ 2.4.9 released!
This is a bug fix release in the stable 2.4 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.4.9 release?
o Check TLS errors as soon as they are set in the SoupMessage to prevent any
data from being sent to the server in case of invalid certificate.
o Clear the GObject DOM bindings internal cache when frames are destroyed or web
view contents are updated.
o Add HighDPI support for non-accelerated compositing contents.
o Fix some transfer annotations used in GObject DOM bindings.
o Use latin1 instead of UTF-8 for HTTP header values.
o Fix synchronous loads when maximum connection limits are reached.
o Fix a crash ScrollView::contentsToWindow() when GtkPluginWidget doesn’t have a
parent.
o Fix a memory leak in webkit_web_policy_decision_new.
o Fix g_closure_unref runtime warning.
o Fix a crash due to empty drag image during drag and drop.
o Fix rendering of scrollbars with GTK+ >= 3.16.
o Fix the build on mingw32/msys.
o Fix the build with WebKit2 disabled.
o Fix the build with accelerated compositing disabled.
o Fix clang version check in configure.
o Fix the build with recent versions of GLib that have GMutexLocker.
o Fix the build for Linux/MIPS64EL.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.4.8
=================
- Fix SSL connection issues with some websites after the POODLE vulnerability fix.
- Fix a crash when loading flash plugins.
- Fix build on GNU Hurd
- Fix build on OS X.
- Fix documentation of webkit_print_operation_get_page_setup().
- Security fixes: CVE-2014-1344, CVE-2014-1384, CVE-2014-1385, CVE-2014-1386,
CVE-2014-1387, CVE-2014-1388, CVE-2014-1389, CVE-2014-1390.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.4.7
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.4.7?
- SSLv3 is now disabled in WebKit2 to protect us against POODLE vulnerability.
- Fix the remote web inspector.
- Fix rendering of buttons, selections and lists with recent GTK+
versions.
- Fix the build with drag and drop support disabled.
- Fix the build with video support disabled.
- Fix a crash in the plugin process with some windowed flash plugins.
- TLS errors now take precedence over the HTTP authentication dialog.
- Do not shrink on-disk cache to its default size on startup.
- Don't include full path names in WebKitEnumTypes.h to ensure the
generated headers are always identical.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 2.4.6
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 2.4.6?
- Use free icons for the web inspector.
- Make vimeo videos work again with the GStreamer media backend.
- Fix selection rendering when unfocused with recent GTK+ versions.
- Fix toggle buttons rendering with recent GTK+ versions.
- Fix race condition when downloading a file due to the intermediate
temporary file.
