Potential new features for 1.8.0

• Geolocation support (yes!)
• requestAnimationFrame support (yes!)
• IndexedDB support (dunno)
• Page visibility support (probably)
• openModalDialog support (probably)

Preparing for 1.8.0

WebkitGtk+ 1.7.90 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.

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-1.8

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 1.7.90

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78995 Remove unused GSettings stuff
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78996 Fails to build on platforms where UChar is wchar_t
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51616 Can't find webinspector and error page redirection on Windows
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108216 WebKit2 does not build if gtk-unix-printing-3.0 is not available
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108222 Fix WebKit2GTK+ for 'make distcheck'.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108250 Adding SOUP_TYPE_PROXY_RESOLVER_DEFAULT feature to soup session makes WebProcess to hang
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79044 [GTK] Needs to claim being a more up-to-date Chrome
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108237 manual rollout of r107970 which breaks table column widths updates from javascript
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108248 Stop the committer timer when the page is destroyed - looks like it could be a crash fix?
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108281 UNIX: Plugin information fields are not interpreted as UTF-8
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108278 Web content oftens steals focus from other widgets
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108277 Geolocation support should be on by default
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108288 Turn on requestAnimationFrame for release builds
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108312 Fix GTK+ unit tests after r108278.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108313 Fix GTK+ unit tests after r108281.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108279 Does not build on GNU Hurd
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108347 Does not build on IA64, SPARC and Alpha
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108523 Clean build is broken when using make -j
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/107351 Unreviewed, rolling out r107351. (modal dialog support)

Changes on track

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68835 "[GTK] [ATK] testatk fails in the getExtents test"
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68733 REGRESSION (r95239): [chromium] Twitter.com now extremely slow from border-radius clips
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66764 "[Gtk] Error generating POT file"
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79252 "[WK2][GTK] WebProcess SIGSEVs due to incorrect clipboard handling"

Previous versions

For changes in older stable branches see: 1.6.x