WebKitGTK 2.24.1 released!
This is the first bug fix release in the stable 2.24 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.24.1 release?
- Do not allow changes in active URI before provisional load starts for non-API requests.
- Stop the threaded compositor when the page is not visible or layer tree state is frozen.
- Use WebKit HTTP source element again for adaptive streaming fragments downloading.
- Properly handle empty resources in webkit_web_resource_get_data().
- Add quirk to ensure outlook.live.com uses the modern UI.
- Fix methods returing GObject or boxed types in JavaScriptCore GLib API.
- Ensure callback data is passed to functions and constructors with no parameters in JavaScriptCore GLib API.
- Fix rendering of complex text when the font uses x,y origins.
- Fix sound loop with Google Hangouts and WhatsApp notifications.
- Fix the build with GStreamer 1.12.5 and GST GL enabled.
- Detect SSE2 at compile time.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Security fixes: CVE-2019-6251.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.