5 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.3?
7 - Fixes to compile with latest GTK+ 2.90.x.
8 - Add support for dropping content in WebKitWebViews.
15 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.2?
17 *** This release is an ABI break ***
19 The library has been renamed to libwebkitgtk, so you'll need to
20 recompile your applications when upgrading to 1.3.2.
22 - Add support for GTK+ 3.x. A new configure flag, --with-gtk, has
23 been added, which allows to control which GTK+ version you want to
24 build against. The default value is '2.0', for GTK+ 2.x
25 support. With '3.0' the library will be compiled against GTK+ 3.x
26 (2.90.4 or newer required). In the 3.x mode the .pc file has been
27 renamed from webkit-X.X.pc to webkitgtk-X.X.pc, so you'll need to
28 update your autotools setup accordingly.
29 - Many fixes for the DOM bindings, including support to dispatch
30 events to any Node through webkit_event_target_dispatch_event.
31 - Added a 'inner-node' property to WebKitHitTestResult, carrying the
32 DOM node where the hit test happened.
33 - Many DnD fixes, including a fix for the infamous hang-of-death
34 while dragging the mouse.
35 - Support for <input type="range">.
36 - Many other bugfixes.
42 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.1?
44 - Initial support for GObject DOM bindings. Present in this release
45 is a substantial subset of the basic DOM APIs (Document, HTML
46 elements, Node, etc) including access to the DOM events through
47 GObject signals. Keep in mind that all the APIs are still
48 unstable, and will probably be subject to changes before the next
50 - Add webkit_web_back_forward_list_clear, to completely clear the
52 - Lots of improvements in DOM clipboard and drag-drop access.
53 - Add support for GTK+ key themes.
54 - Significant improvements in a11y, including improved role support
61 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90?
63 - Display server side messages during HTTP auth, since they
64 sometimes contain important information for the authentication
66 - Reduce creation time for WebKitWebView widgets by reusing
67 dictionary structs used for spell-checking instead of creating a
68 new one for each instance.
69 - Implement WebKitWebView::geolocation-policy-decision-requested,
70 emitted when a frame inside the WebView wants to get its position
72 - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-spatial-navigation to control
73 whether Spatial Navigation is enabled or not. Spatial Navigation
74 allows the user to move through the elements in a page using only
75 the keyboard; this is similar to caret browsing, but with less
76 focus on accessibility since instead of presenting the exact
77 layout of the page to the user a more "logical" way of browsing
78 through its contents is allowed. A specification of this feature
80 http://www.w3.org/TR/WICD/#current-focus-point-algorithm
81 - Add a new build option, --enable-fast-mobile-scrolling. At the
82 moment this only disables fixed backgrounds when there are no
83 other fixed elements in a page, since they generally make
84 scrolling very slow and thus are a big burden in some mobile
86 - GTK+ Input Method support has received a big overhaul, and most of
87 them should work pretty well now.
88 - All known redraw issues in the plugin support (especially with the
89 Java plugin) have been fixed.
90 - Various fixes to the MediaPlayer code to improve responsiveness
91 and avoid lagging on position reporting.
92 - Lots of bugfixes and other improvements.
98 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.22?
100 - Preliminary support for Java plugins. Basic functionality is
101 there, but there are still a few rough edges. Also newly
102 introduced is a new WebKitWebSetting, 'enable-java-applet', which
103 controls whether WebKit will recognize the non-standard <applet>
105 - Add WebKitWebSettings::auto-resize-window; when enabled, WebKit
106 will act upon the DOM methods that change the size and/or position
107 of the window containing a WebView (window.{moveTo, resizeTo,
109 - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-file-access-from-file-uris; when
110 enabled, each file:// URI will be assigned its own security
112 - Lots of bugfixes, especially in the PageCache support.
118 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.21?
120 - New custom-made GStreamer source element that uses the WebCore
121 network layer to download media data; this makes sure any headers
122 and cookies will automatically get added when making requests.
123 - WebKit will now let libsoup know who the first party for a given
124 message is, making it possible to implement accept/deny policies in
126 - The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
132 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20?
134 - Fixes to the HTML5 Media Player infrastructure to satisfy sites
135 that require cookies, and Referer to be sent; this makes
136 WebKitGTK+ able to support the new HTML5 support added to Youtube,
137 and Vimeo, for instance.
138 - Windowless plugin support is finally here, making it possible to
139 get plugins to behave on various web pages.
140 - The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
146 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.19?
148 - Improvements to AtkText implementation
149 - RGBA colormap support has been added
150 - Improvements to the HTML5 media player
151 - Crashes related to clipboard handling, which were hitting many
152 users and seemed to be random have been fixed
158 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.18?
160 - Add methods to set and get a cache model in WebKitGTK+. We offer
161 two possibilites: document viewer (no caches are used) and browser
162 (similar to the previous defaults).
163 - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-page-cache. Controls whether the
164 Page Cache is enabled or not. For details about what the page
165 cache is and does see
166 http://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/
167 The page cache is disabled by default, since the gtk+ port still
168 presents some small bugs when it's enabled.
169 - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-site-specific-quirks. Controls
170 whether a series of page-specific workarounds are used by WebKit.
171 - Use Content-Encoding support available in libsoup 2.28.2 and
173 - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-default-context-menu. Controls
174 whether webkitgtk+ will show a default context menu on right click
175 in the view. Note that even with the property set to FALSE right
176 clicks can be handled by the page, either by actions or by
177 ad-hoc in-page context menus.
178 - Make the WebKitWebView::icon-loaded signal carry a string with the
179 favicon's URI. This is an API break, but the signal already had a
180 broken signature and was useless anyway, so it's extremely
181 unlikely that anybody was using it. Also, add the 'icon-uri'
182 property to the view, holding the URI for its current favicon.
183 - Respect Content-Disposition header in downloads (fixes downloads
185 - Various accessibility improvements.
192 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.17?
194 - New APIs to show and close the web inspector and to inspect an
195 element at the given coordinates.
196 - New property, WebKitWebSettings::tab-key-cycles-through-elements,
197 controls whether TAB is simply interpreted as another keystroke or
198 is used to cycle through the elements in a page.
199 - Many a11y improvements.
200 - The usual amount of random bugfixes.
206 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.16?
208 - Add optional support to generate the gobject-introspection
209 gir/typelib files. Enable with --enable-introspection, it's off by
211 - Add a new load status value, WEBKIT_LOAD_FAILED, emitted when
212 there's an error during the load process. This is the natural
213 companion to WEBKIT_LOAD_FINISHED, which is only emitted when the
214 load finished succesfuly.
215 - Ensure that keyboard events filtered by GtkIMContext still create
216 the proper DOM events.
217 - Many a11y improvements: caret browsing fixes, expose heading
218 levels, more accessible roles supported, more work in correctly
219 showing the element's ancestry list, improved support for lists,
221 - Many improvements to our media support.
222 - Add a new setting to control DOM pastes
223 (document.execCommand("Paste"))
224 - Many, many bugfixes all over the place.
230 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15?
232 - New API to get the subresources from a WebKitWebDataSource. This
233 provides a way of accessing all the resources that compose the
234 view to which the data source is attached.
235 - A new function, webkit_web_view_get_hit_test_result, which allows
236 to do a 'hit test' on the coordinates specified by a mouse
237 event. A hit test provides context information about that point in
238 the document, like whether it's an image, a link, an input box,
240 - Our DumpRenderTree implementation now supports eventSender, which
241 allows us to run many more LayoutTests and make WebKitGTK+ more
242 stable and feature-complete.
243 - JSNES runs 6x faster: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/48573
244 - The usual small improvements and bugfixes.
250 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.14?
252 - New API has been added to WebKitWebFrame to allow applying
253 scrollbars policy as requested by web applications to the main
254 frame; if the parent of the WebKitWebView widget is a
255 GtkScrolledWindow, policy is applied by the default handler.
256 - A new API has been added to help dealing with the various
257 resources that are downloaded to compose the final rendering; you
258 can now obtain the source code for a page that is loaded, for
260 - A new property has been added to WebKitWebView to allow setting it
261 to "View Source" mode.
262 - HTML5 database has gained API to manage the individual databases,
263 including usage and quota.
264 - A new signal `resource-request-starting' has been added to the
265 WebKitWebView to allow modification of outgoing requests for every
267 - Connection limit has been increased to 60 total connections, 6
268 per-host, matching other browsers more closely; this seems to have
269 improved loading time of some sites.
270 - Undo/redo support has been added to editable texts.
271 - The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
277 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.13?
279 - GNOME Keyring support was removed in favor of the new Password
280 Manager soup feature; to get exactly the same behavior,
281 applications should use SoupPasswordManagerGNOME. This requires
282 libsoup 2.27.91 or newer.
283 - Several accessibility improvements, including support for testing
284 the a11y infrastructure in our layout tests.
285 - You can now enable/disable HTML5 offline application cache using a
286 new setting added to WebKitWebSettings.
287 - Drag support has landed, meaning you can start playing with HTML5
288 drag and drop support; drop support is still missing.
289 - A crash with scripts closing windows has been fixed.
290 - Image cursors support has been added.
291 - The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
297 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.12?
299 - Fix WebKitSoupAuthDialog to only save passwords in gnome-keyring
300 (if enabled) when authentication succeeds.
301 - Implement a proper size_request method for WebKitWebView. The
302 widget will request the size of the whole page as its size
304 - Many a11y improvements.
305 - The usual amount of other misc fixes.
306 - WEBKIT_DEBUG variable now accepts channel names in any case
313 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.11?
315 - WebKit has got a new feature - a XSS auditor, that should improve
316 security; this feature is still experimental, and disabled by
317 default, but applications can enable it using the setting.
318 - The hackish content sniffing code that was beig used to avoid
319 pages requesting downloads instead of displaying content has been
320 replaced by usage of a new Soup feature, which implements proper
322 - More accessibility work, including fixes for problems which were
323 critical for a possible GNOME 2.28 release.
324 - Pasting rich text from other browsers should now work as expected.
325 - The usual amount of misc fixes.
331 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.10?
333 - WebKitNetworkRequest has now GObject properties for its URI and
334 the SoupMessage that backs it up.
335 - Fix AtkText methods get_selection and get_n_selections to not use
336 the global selection but only the selection that belongs to the
338 - Fix a crasher when emitting the a11y signal 'text-caret-moved' in
339 some situations with debug builds.
345 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.9?
347 - Scrolling once again received a lot of love, and many subtle
348 problems and bugs were killed, and we now get correct behavior in
349 acid2; a number of smaller improvements are in the queue.
350 - Accessibility keeps gaining better support. On this release a lot
351 of work was done on the AtkText interface implementation.
352 - WebKitNetworkRequest now carries with it all the information
353 regarding the request, not only the URI. This means you will no
354 longer miss headers such as Referer when passing NetworkRequest
355 objects from a callback to webkit_web_frame_load_request.
361 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8?
363 - We found out that WebKitWebHistoryItems were being kept with a
364 reference count of 2 instead of 1 as they should; nobody should be
365 relying on that, but if you hit reference counting problems with
366 items you were creating yourself, this is for you.
367 - You can now copy images from the web page to the clipboard.
368 - Improvements were made to the Plugin handling code.
369 - Scroll events will now be correctly reported to web applications.
370 - You can now embed arbitrary widgets as if it was a plugin, with
371 the new "create-plugin-widget" signal.
372 - The atk_text_get_text_{at,after,before}_offset methods are now
373 implemented for all boundary types except LINE_AFTER and
375 - The usual stream of minor fixes and improvements, as always.
381 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.7?
383 - This release includes a security fix:
384 SVGList::insertItemBefore would not perform a bounds check on the
385 index it was provided, potentially leading to a buffer overflow.
386 - New frame loading properties supersede various load-* signals, and
387 are also accessible in the WebView, for convenience, making this
389 - JIT is now supported for X86-64 on Linux, and enabled by default!
390 - A regression on webkit_web_view_load_string has been fixed, making
391 it work correctly again when the document uses encodings which may
392 use more than 1 byte per character.
393 - Yet more work has been done to the ATK support, caret browsing
394 support improvements in particular.
395 - Filenames suggested by the Download functionality now correctly
396 use the filename given by the host, if available.
397 - Build fixes for IA64, and AMD64
398 - gtk-doc support has also improved, and you should now be able to
399 cd WebKit/gtk/docs and type make docs, if you --enable-gtk-doc on
400 configure, as long as you build with srcdir == builddir.
401 - More crashes and other bugs fixed, and small improvements made
408 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.6?
410 - Several ATK support additions and fixes got landed, with many
411 roles being now implemented, providing better accessibility.
412 - Caret browsing is now available.
413 - Spelling check has been implemented using Enchant; the API is
414 still lacking, and some of the functionality still needs to be
416 - Error reporting is now available, with default error pages, and
417 API that allows the application to override the default behavior;
418 localization of those pages is still not supported, but planned.
419 - More crashes and other bugs fixed.
425 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.5?
427 - Added gtk-doc support to the build system. It is not fully
428 integrated yet, so some manual tweaking is still needed.
429 - Minimum required GTK+ version is now 2.10.
430 - Added l10n support with gettext. Translations are stored in
432 - Many improvements to the ATK support. It's good enough to provide
433 a basic user experience with Accerciser now, but we'll keep
434 improving it in further releases.
435 - New printing API that allows applications to control and monitor
436 the printing process, when requested by javascript or started by
444 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.4?
446 - WebKitWebView gained uri and title properties, deprecating the
447 usage of the title-changed signal.
448 - Basic functionality for HTML5 media tags has been achieved; there
449 are many unimplented methods, and rough edges still, though.
450 - Font rendering received quite some love, with layouting, and
451 memory handling fixes, and at least one less crash.
452 - A new signal, new-window-policy-decision-requested, has been added
453 to WebKitWebView, that makes it possible for the application to
454 correctly decide what to do when new windows are requested.
455 - A bug that made tooltips for consecutive links not update their
457 - Several improvements were made to the HTTP backend, including
458 making it more robust when talking to servers which send bad
459 Content-Type headers.
460 - WebKitWebView now uses the GtkBinding system to handle key events,
461 which means that the user is now able to customize the keys used
462 for various operations, and that many subtle bugs have been fixed.
468 The 1.1.3 release was just a quick bug fix release, because we made a
469 mistake in library versioning.
475 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.2?
477 - Added support for downloads: a new signal, 'download-requested',
478 will be emitted by WebKit when a dowload is requested. On top of
479 that, the download process has been encapsulated in a new object,
480 WebKitDownload, which allows the user to control it or to start
481 new downloads from the client side.
482 - Added webkit_web_view_get_encoding to get the automatic encoding
484 - Added GObject properties for 'encoding' and 'custom-encoding'.
485 - Added 'javascript-profiling-enabled' property to the WebInspector,
486 which allows to enable and disable the profiling functionality.
487 - Added API to create and add history items to WebKit's history.
488 - Improved debugging support with WEBKIT_DEBUG environment
489 variable. Most of the settings will only give useful output for
490 debug builds, but WEBKIT_DEBUG=Network will log all HTTP traffic
491 form libsoup to console. See WebCore/platform/gtk/LoggingGtk.cpp
492 for all the options available.
499 What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1?
501 - ABI compatibility with 1.0.3 was broken, so you will need to
502 recompile your application against 1.1.1
503 - Support for the CURL backend was dropped, libsoup is the only HTTP
505 - webkit_get_default_session, to get the SoupSession used internally
507 - 'create-web-view' signal, emitted when the creation of a new
509 - 'navigation-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted when a
510 navigation to another page is requested.
511 - 'mime-type-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted each time
512 WebKit is about to show a URI with a given MIME type.
513 - Support for the Web Inspector
514 (see http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/)
515 - HTTP authentication support, with optional gnome-keyring storage.
516 - New load functions: webkit_web_view_open, webkit_web_view_load_uri
517 and webkit_web_view_load_request. The old
518 webkit_web_view_load_string and webkit_web_view_load_html_string
520 - webkit_web_view_reload_bypass_cache
521 - webkit_web_view_{get,set}_custom_encoding, to override the
522 encoding of the current page.
523 - Improved stability and lots of bugfixes.