WebKitGTK 2.51.2 released!

This is a development release leading toward 2.52 series.

What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.51.2 release?

  • Add WebKitImage utility class that will be used for favicons and snapshots.
  • Videos with BT2100-PQ colorspace are now tone-mapped to SDR, ensuring colours do not appear washed out.
  • Use a run loop observer also to notify the main thread when composition is done.
  • Remove the hybrid rendering mode now that we are computing a different tile size for GPU and CPU rendering modes.
  • Make jsc_value_array_buffer_get_data() introspectable.
  • Restrict allowed URI protocols for media playback.
  • Add rendering and buffer formats information to webkit://gpu.
  • Enable dynamic MSAA for accelerated 2D canvas rendering.
  • Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
  • Translation updates: Slovenian, Turkish.

Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.