WebKitGTK 2.50.0 released!
This is the first stable release in the 2.50 series.
Highlights of the WebKitGTK 2.50.0 release
- Improved rendering performance by recording each layer once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
- Enable damage propagation to the UI process by default.
- CSS property font-variant-emoji is now enabled by default.
- Font synthesis properties (bold/italic) are now properly handled.
- Ensure web view is focused on tap gesture.
- Added new API to get the theme color of a WebKitWebView.
For more details about all the changes included in WebKitGTK 2.50 see the NEWS file that is included in the tarball.
Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.