WebKitGTK 2.53.4 released!
This is a development release leading toward 2.54 series.
What’s new in the WebKitGTK 2.53.4 release?
- Implemented batched painting in skia compositor, which improves performance when there are many layers that can be painted in the same operation.
- Avoid unnecessary clips when possible in skia compositor.
- Fix synchronization issues between main, scrolling and compositing threads causing glitches while scrolling in some cases.
- Limit the damage region of the scrollbar to the region actually painted.
- Add support for image/webp to canvas.toDataURL().
- Expose search inputs as WEBKIT_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH.
- Add User-Agent quirk for HBO Max.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.