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 (08/23/12).

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
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/128050 [GTK] Sanitize the suggested filename when building the download destination URI
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/128063 [SOUP] Don't convert to UTF-8 the suggestedFilename passed to Download::decideDestinationWithSuggestedFilename()
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/128074 [GTK][a11y] editing/pasteboard/paste-blockquote-into-blockquote-4.html crashes

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
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96284 [GTK] WebKitGtk+ crashes with non-UTF8 HTTP header names
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96184 ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96184

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''~~,"