WebKitGTK 2.51.1 released!
This is the first development release leading toward 2.52 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.51.1 release?
- Use the GPU process for WebGL by default.
- Add initial API for web extensions.
- Add API to handle WebXR permission requests.
- Add new API to query the immersive session status.
- Improve text rendering performance
- Compute the layers tile size, using a different strategy depending on whether GPU rendering is enabled.
- Add support for run loop observers that are now used to replace the layer flush timer and properly implement the opportunistic task scheduler.
- Fix rendering fo gradients with hue interpolation method.
- Fix rendering of layers with fractional transforms.
- Fix pasting image data (like image/png) from the clipboard.
- Remove support for building with libsoup2.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Slovenian, Swedish.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.