Preparing for 1.10.0

WebkitGtk+ 1.10.0 will be the next release in the stable series. We should merge not overly intrusive patches that improve stability or performance, fix build issues, etc. We branched at r126423.

When filing bugs (​http://bugs.webkit.org) against stable release, please prefix them with "[GTK] [Stable]" to ensure they are addressed with high priority. Also, running a debug build and including stack traces is highly encouraged.

To get the stable branch code, simply check out ​http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-1.10

Over the next few weeks we'll be merging important fixes into the branch, so be sure to stay up to date. Thanks for your help!

Proposed merges for 1.9.92

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/126886 "[GTK] LLint build fails with -g -02"
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/126941 Implement AccessibilityUIElement::titleUIElement() and AccessibilityUIElement::stringValue()
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127367 [Gtk] Incorrect/unexpected characters in the text of certain accessibles
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127368 [Gtk] No accessible caret-moved events found in certain content
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127369 Unreviewed GTK gardening, rebaselining an accessibility test.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127377 [Gtk] accessibility/replaced-objects-in-anonymous-blocks layout test failure
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127370 [Gtk] No accessible caret-moved events found in certain content
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127466 [Stable] [GTK] Crash in WebCore::HTMLSelectElement::selectedIndex
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/126715 Array type checks and storage accesses should be uniformly represented and available to CSE
  • Fixes a crash. See: ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94999
  • This was merged and reverted because it caused more crashes and made inspector unit tests fail in both WebKit1 and WebKit2
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127483 [GTK] Crash in AccessibilityObject::accessibilityPlatformIncludesObject()
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/126551 Purge unused favicons from IconDatabase after 30 days
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127750 [GTK] [WK2] Crash when navigating between pages

Proposed merges for 1.9.91

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127124 1.9.90 drops symbols, breaking compatibility
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127228 Unreviewed, rolling out r126127.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/127070 Source/WebCore: [Gtk] Process Gtk 3.4 smooth scroll events properly.

Changes on track

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94435 "[GTK] Split WebCore/platform into a separate library"
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94417 "[GTK] [WebKit2] Use XComposite window for accelerated compositing"
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94572 "[GTK] The tarball should be called webkitgtk-x.x.x.tar.xz"
  • To be merged right before 1.10.0 so that all 1.10.x releases will have the new tarball name
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84137 [GTK] Properly expose <legend> elements to ATs
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95644 [Gtk] accessibility/canvas-description-and-role expected results needed
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89553 [Stable] [GTK] Regression: frame-flattening broken when frame content uses CSS styles

Previous versions

For changes in older stable branches see: 1.8.x

Useful commands

To get a wiki-formated list of commits that just got merged:

 $ git log --pretty=oneline <commit>.. | cut -d ' ' -f 5- | sed "s,\(.\+\)\(https://bugs.*\),  * ~~[\2] ''\1''~~,"