Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from December 16 to December 23.
Cross-Port 🐱
Improved logging in WebDriver service executables, using the same infrastructure as the browser (e.g. journald logging and different levels).
Added support for the first WebDriver-BiDi event in WebKit: monitoring console messages.
JavaScriptCore 🐟
The built-in JavaScript/ECMAScript engine for WebKit, also known as JSC or SquirrelFish.
JavaScriptCore got a fix for a wasm test that was flaky on 32-bits. We also submitted a new PR to fix handling of Air (Air is an intermediate representation) Args with offsets that are not directly addressable in the O0 register allocator.
Graphics 🖼️
Since the switch to Skia we have been closely following upstream changes, and making small contributions when needed. After adding support for OpenType-SVG fonts the build with Clang was broken, and needed a fix to allow building Skia in C++ 23 mode (as we do in WebKit). The Skia update for this week resulting in a fix to avoid SK_NO_SANITIZE("cfi") when using GCC.
Releases 📦️
Stable releases of WebKitGTK 2.46.5 and WPE WebKit 2.46.5 are now available. While they include some minor fixes, these are focused on patches for security issues, and come accompanied with a new security advisory (WSA-2024-0008: GTK, WPE). As usual, it is recommended to stay up to date, and fresh packages have been already making their way to mainstream Linux distributions.
That’s all for this week!
