WebKit Igalia Periodical #13

Fixed an assertion crash in the remote Web Inspector when its resources contain an UTF-8 “non-breaking space” character.

Media playback now supports choosing the output audio device on a per element basis, using the setSinkId() API. This also added the support needed for enumerating audio outputs, which is needed by Web applications to obtain the identifiers of the available devices. Typical usage includes allowing the user to choose the audio output used in WebRTC-based conference calls.

For now feature flags ExposeSpeakers, ExposeSpeakersWithoutMicrophone, and PerElementSpeakerSelection need to be enabled for testing.

Set proper playbin flags which are needed to properly use OpenMax on the RaspberryPi.

Landed a change that adds a visualization for damage rectangles, controlled by the WEBKIT_SHOW_DAMAGE environment variable. This highlights areas damaged during rendering of every frame—as long as damage propagation is enabled.

Stable releases of WebKitGTK 2.46.6 and WPE WebKit 2.46.6 are now available. These come along with the first security advisory of the year (WSA-2025-0001: GTK, WPE): they contain mainly security fixes, and everybody is advised to update.

The unstable release train continues as well, with WebKitGTK 2.47.4 and WPE WebKit 2.47.4 available for testing. These are snapshots of the current development status, and while expected to work there may be rough edges—if you encounter any issue, reports at the WebKit Bugzilla are always welcome.

The recently released libwpe 1.16.1 accidentally introduced an ABI break, which has been corrected in libwpe 1.16.2. There are no other changes, and the latter should be preferred.