Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from September 15 to September 22.
The first release in a new stable series is now out! And despite that, the work continues on WebXR, multimedia reliability, and WebExtensions support.
Cross-Port 🐱
Fixed running WebXR tests in the WebKit build infrastructure, and made a few more of them run. This both increases the amount of WebXR code covered during test runs, and helps prevent regressions in the future.
As part of the ongoing work to get WebExtensions support in the GTK and WPE WebKit ports, a number of classes have been converted from Objective-C to C++, in order to use share their functionality among all ports.
Multimedia 🎥
GStreamer-based multimedia support for WebKit, including (but not limited to) playback, capture, WebAudio, WebCodecs, and WebRTC.
A number of multimedia-related memory leaks have been plugged. These have been found thanks to the GStreamer leak tracer.
Releases 📦️
WebKitGTK 2.50.0 and WPE WebKit 2.50.0 are now available. These are the first releases of a new stable series, and are the result of the last six months of work. This development cycle focused on rendering performance improvements, improved support for font features, and more. New public API has been added to obtain the theme color declared by Web pages.
For those longer to integrate newer releases, which we know can be a longer process when targeting embedded devices, we have also published WPE WebKit 2.48.7 with a few stability and security fixes.
Accompanying these releases there is security advisory WSA-2025-0006 (GTK, WPE), with information about solved security issues. As usual, we encourage everybody to use the most recent versions where such issues are known to be fixed.
Bug reports are always welcome at the WebKit Bugzilla.
That’s all for this week!
