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WPE WebKit 2.29.2
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.29.2?

  - Add support for backdrop filters.
  - Add support for text-underline-offset and text-decoration-thickness.
  - Add OpenCDM and AV1 support to media backend.
  - Add new API to get ITP data summary.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.29.1
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.29.1?

  - Add Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) support.
  - Add webkit_authentication_request_get_security_origin.
  - Add support for video formats in img elements.
  - Add API to handle video autoplay policy that now defaults to disallow autoplay videos with audio.
  - Add API to mute a web view.
  - Add API to allow applications to handle the HTTP authentication credential storage.
  - Add API to configure and handle the DOM cache.
  - Add API to configure and handle Service Worker registrations.
  - Add a WebKitSetting to set the media content types requiring hardware support.
  - Add support for sndio to bubblewrap sandbox.
  - Add support for website data to the existing permission request API.
  - Add support for rendering many user interface controls (scroll bars, progress bars,
    spin buttons, menu lists, sliders, etc.)
  - Add USER_AGENT_BRANDING build option.
  - Use a mobile User-Agent string on tablets and handheld devices.
  - Change the cookies accept policy to always when no-third-party is set and ITP is enabled.
  - Enable kinetic scrolling with async scrolling.
  - Bubblewrap sandbox should not attempt to bind empty paths.
  - Fix several race conditions and threading issues in the media player.
  - Fix web process hangs on large GitHub pages.
  - Fix a race condition causing a crash in media player.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.27.4
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.3?

  - Add API for input methods.
  - Add API to serialize/deserialize a JSCValue to/from a JSON string.
  - Add WebKitOptionMenu API.
  - Add support for strict secure cookies.
  - Add support for saving data from remote inspector.
  - Support client-side video rendering using DMA-BUF to share frames across processes.
  - Fix rendering of conic gradients in high resolution displays.
  - Fix special combination characters not respecting the keystroke order when high CPU load.
  - Honor the IndexedDB directory set in WebsiteDataManager.
  - Fix rendering of text when there's an initial advance in the text run.
  - Fix web process crash when displaying a KaTeX formula.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.27.3
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.3?

  - Improve performance when falling back to system fonts.
  - Stop using DBus for the remote inspector implementation to improve the performance of both
    WebDriver and remote inspector.
  - Implement support for new ARIA roles: code, strong, emphasis, generic.
  - Fix handling of content type with new custom protocols implementation.
  - Make image decoders fully thread safe.
  - Add support for get page source command in WebDriver.
  - Add support for network proxy capabilities in WebDriver.
  - Add support for new window command in WebDriver.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.27.2
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  - Add user messages API for the communication with the web extension.
  - Enable service workers by default.
  - Fix the build with WebDriver disabled.
  - Show also client EGL extensions in about:gpu.
  - Fix the build with unified sources disabled.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.27.1
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.27.1?

  - Enable asynchronous scrolling.
  - Add about:gpu to show information about the graphics stack.
  - Add WebKitWebView:page-id property.
  - Fix the build with ENABLE_WEBDRIVER=OFF.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.25.1
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  - Enable process switch on cross site navigation.
  - Fix rendering artifacts in youtube volume button.
  - Fix trapezoid artifact in github comment box.
  - Enable hyperlink auditing setting by default.
  - Fix HLS streams being slow to start.
  - Add support for subprocess sandboxing.
  - Add API to get the web process unique identifier of a WebKitFrame.
  - Add WebKitWebPage::did-associate-form-controls-for-frame signal and deprecate did-associate-form-controls.
  - Implement AtkComponentIface scroll_to methods.
  - Fix touch capabilities detection for websites checking touch events properties present in window or pointer media queries.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.


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WPE WebKit 2.21.91
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What' new in WPE WebKit 2.21.2?

  - Add API to evaluate code in a new object to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to check for syntax errors in given code to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Update jsc_context_evaluate_with_source_uri() to receive also a starting line number.
  - Add API to allow creating variadic functions to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Add API to run javascript from a WebKitWebView in an isolated world.
  - Disable Gigacage if mmap fails to allocate in Linux.
  - Fix WebProcess crash when trying to use the remote Web Inspector.
  - Fix a network process crash when trying to get cookies of about:blank page.
  - Fix some frames being dropped when using requestAnimationFrame() to animate elements.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.


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WPE WebKit 2.21.2
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What' new in WPE WebKit 2.21.2?

  - Add initial support for the fullscreen Web API.
  - Add initial implementation of WebDriver advance user interaction commands.
  - Add introspectable alternatives for functions using vargars to JavaScriptCore GLib API.
  - Fix memory pressure monitor to reliably notify all subprocesses.
  - Fix building with the Raspberry Pi userland GPU driver and certain versions of GStreamer-GL.
  - Fix building with the ICU headers in a non-default directory.
  - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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WPE WebKit 2.21.1
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What's new in WPE WebKit 2.21.1?

  - Everything. This is the first release. Enjoy.