Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from July 29 to August 11.
This update covers two weeks, including a deluge of releases and graphics work.
Cross-Port 🐱
Graphics 🖼️
CSS animations with a cubic-bezier timing function are now correctly rendered
The rewrite of the WebXR support continued making steady progress, and is getting closer to being able to render content again.
WPE WebKit 📟
The WPE port gained basic undo support in text inputs.
WPE Android ↗ 🤖
Adaptation of WPE WebKit targeting the Android operating system.
WPE-Android has been updated to use WebKit 2.48.5. This update particular interest for development on Android is the support for using the system logd service, which can be configured using system properties. For example, the following will enable logging all warnings:
adb shell setprop debug.log.WPEWebKit all
adb shell setprop log.tag.WPEWebKit WARN
Updated prebuilt packages are also available in the Central repository.
Releases 📦️
Stable releases of WebKitGTK 2.48.5 and WPE WebKit 2.48.5 are now available. These include the fixes and improvements from the corresponding 2.48.4 ones, and additionally solve a number of security issues. Advisory WSA-2025-0005 (GTK, WPE) covers the included security patches.
WebKitGTK 2.49.3 and WPE WebKit 2.49.4 have been released, intended to test out upcoming features and improvements. As usual, issue reports are welcome in Bugzilla, and are particularly important now to stabilize the newly created branch for the upcoming 2.50.x series.
Ruby was re-added to the GNOME SDK, thanks to Michael Catanzaro and Jordan Petridis. So we're happy to report that the WebKitGTK nightly builds for GNOME Web Canary are now fixed and Canary updates were resumed.
That’s all for this week!
