Release: WPE WebKit 2.47.1

release/2024-11-04-wpewebkit-2.47.1.md

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+layout: post
+title: "WPE WebKit 2.47.1 released"
+tags: [release, unstable]
+package: wpewebkit
+version: 2.47.1
+permalink: /release/wpewebkit-2.47.1.html
+---
+
+This is the first development release leading towards the 2.48 series.
+
+### What's new in WPE WebKit 2.47.1?
+
+- Flatten layers to a plane when the `preseve-3d` style is set.
+- Build GPU process by default, but keeping WebGL in the web process by default for now.
+- Enable WebGL support when targeting Android.
+- Add experimental support for speech synthesis using libspiel, which may be
+  enabled at build time instead of Flite (with `USE_SPIEL=ON` and `USE_FLITE=OFF`).
+- Add support for building Skia when targeting Android.
+- Add close button and handling of the URL entry `onAccepted` event to the Qt6 `qt-wpe-mini-browser`.
+- Add new settings API to the WPEPlatform library.
+- Add new connect methods to use a custom device file with `WPEDisplayDRM`. and `WPEDisplayHeadless` in the WPEPlatform API.
+- Web Inspector resources are now shipped in a `GResource` bundle file, instead of the `libWPEInspectorResources` shared library.
+- Rename class `WPEMonitor` to `WPEScreen` in the WPEPlatform API.
+- Use DMA-BUF buffers for WebGL when available.
+- Make GStreamer GL sink handle DMA-BUF memory to replace the DMA-BUF sink.
+- Fix device scaling factor in the WPEPlatform DRM implementation.
+- Fix input methods when using the WPEPlatform library.
+- Fix unexpected `ENABLE_WPE_PLATFORM` guards in installed API headers.
+- Fix building the Qt6 API.
+- Fix DuckDuckGo links by adding a user agent quirk.
+- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
+
+#### Checksums
+
+<pre>
+wpewebkit-2.47.1.tar.xz (39.5 MiB)
+   md5sum: 8a734b02eac69ec2ba044e0113ef0753
+   sha1sum: 14536db7bd1d8b014da0eef51151de84428e4106
+   sha256sum: c1f16b0aca0b349fa6ca615267276efdf5151e1e7554e60fa7d3460c568e8f3c
+</pre>