Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from January 20 to January 27.
Cross-Port 🐱
GLib 2.70 will be required starting with the upcoming 2.48 stable releases. This made it possible to remove some code that is no longer needed.
Fixed unlimited memory consumption in case of playing regular video playback and using web inspector.
Speed up reading of large messages sent by the web inspector.
Web Platform 🌐
Implemented support for dialog.requestClose().
Multimedia 🎥
GStreamer-based multimedia support for WebKit, including (but not limited to) playback, capture, WebAudio, WebCodecs, and WebRTC.
Fixed the assertion error "pipeline and player states are not synchronized" related to muted video playback in the presence of scroll. Work is ongoing regarding other bugs reproduced with the same video, some of them related to scroll and some likely indepedent.
Fixed lost initial audio samples played using WebAudio on 32-bit Raspberry Pi devices, by preventing the OpenMAX subsystem to enter standby mode.
Graphics 🖼️
Landed a change that fixes damage propagation of 3D-transformed layers.
Fixed a regression visiting any web page making use of accelerated ImageBuffers (e.g. canvas) when CPU rendering is used. We were unconditionally creating OpenGL fences, even in CPU rendering mode, and tried to wait for completion in a worker thread, that had no OpenGL context (due to CPU rendering). This is an illegal operation in EGL and fired an assertion, crashing the WebProcess.
Releases 📦️
Despite the work on the WPE Platform API, we continue to maintain the “classic” stack based on libwpe. Thus, we have released libwpe 1.16.1 with the small—but important—addition of support for representing analog button inputs for devices capable of reporting varying amounts of pressure.
That’s all for this week!
