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.