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.