WebKitGTK 2.37.1 released!
This is the first development release leading toward 2.38 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.37.1 release?
- 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- Remove the ATK a11y implementation that has been replaced by AT-SPI DBus interfaces.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.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.