Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from November 17 to November 24.
In this week's rendition, the WebView snapshot API was enabled on the WPE port, further progress on the Temporal and Trusted Types implementations, and the release of WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit 2.50.2.
Cross-Port 🐱
A WebKitImage-based implementation of WebView snapshot landed this week, enabling this feature on WPE when it was previously only available in GTK. This means you can now use webkit_web_view_get_snapshot (and webkit_web_view_get_snapshot_finish) to get a WebKitImage-representation of your screenshot.
WebKitImage implements the GLoadableIcon interface (as well as GIcon's), so you can get a PNG-encoded image using g_loadable_icon_load.
Remove incorrect early return in Trusted Types DOM attribute handling to align with spec changes.
JavaScriptCore 🐟
The built-in JavaScript/ECMAScript engine for WebKit, also known as JSC or SquirrelFish.
In JavaScriptCore's implementation of Temporal, implemented the with method for PlainMonthDay objects.
In JavaScriptCore's implementation of Temporal, implemented the from and equals methods for PlainMonthDay objects.
Releases 📦️
WebKitGTK 2.50.2 and WPE WebKit 2.50.2 have been released.
These stable releases include a number of patches for security issues, and as such a new security advisory, WSA-2025-0008, has been issued (GTK, WPE).
It is recommend to apply an additional patch that fixes building with the JavaScriptCore “CLoop” interpreter is enabled, which is typicall for architectures where JIT compilation is unsupported. Releases after 2.50.2 will include it and manual patching will no longer be needed.
That’s all for this week!
