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+ 1.8.0 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.

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 1.8.0

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108417 Assertion failure in TextIterator::handleTextBox
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108490 REGRESSION: unbalanced transparency layers for clipPath
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108494 REGRESSION(58212): html foreignObjects with positions other than static not hidden correctly when parent has display:none
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108574 REGRESSION (r104060): Web font is not loaded if specified by link element dynamically inserted
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108668 REGRESSION(r99076): WebKit pastes the trailing newline into a single-line text field
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108878 Regression(r107477): Crash in StaticNodeList::itemWithName.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109021 REGRESSION (r108112): AWS Management Console fails to initialize
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109034 Unreviewed. Build fix for linux-bot (qt) after r109021.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109480 REGRESSION(r106388): Form state is restored to a wrong document.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109503 REGRESSION(90089): Input type='search' text shakes up and down when the style is changed.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109543 REGRESSION (r104060): Page contents not painted if inserting a new stylesheet and temporary body node
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109593 REGRESSION(r74971): Can't select a line of RTL text on Facebook
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109594 Source/WebCore: REGRESSION(r97353): Crash when accessing location or history properties inside a navigated window
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110063 REGRESSION(r96566): Cursor is I-beam upon dragging an attachment in mail
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110065 < rdar://problem/10923294> REGRESSION (r100847): Entries are clipped out in Day One
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110178 WebKitGtk+ fails to build on win32 against GTK3
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110243 REGRESSION (r105396): Dragging an iWork document into icloud.com opens it in the Mac app instead of uploading it to icloud.com
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110331 REGRESSION: Date.parse("Tue Nov 23 20:40:05 2010 GMT") returns NaN
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110401 REGRESSION (r93614): scrolling div does not repaint
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110598 REGRESSION(r99369): File input button doesn't highlight when pressed
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110888 REGRESSION(r107168?): Assertion failures under pageContainsAnyHorizontalScrollbars causing multiple "crashes" on the Lion Intel Debug WebKit2 testers
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110925 REGRESSION(r103452): 100% CPU usage and 5s pause after clicking on a link in Yahoo Mail
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110938 REGRESSION(r106232): The resize handler is always called after loading.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111361 Remove support for "magic" iframe
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111400 (r110063) m_mouseDownMayStartDrag is used without being behind the ENABLE(DRAG_SUPPORT) macro
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111698 [GTK] icon database requests not dispatched until new data arrives
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111882 REGRESSION(107971): Google Voice contact list is broken in WebKit due to badly allocating the extra height

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111914 [GObject bindings] Supplemental interfaces are not disabled with the "Conditional" attribute
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111915 [Gtk] Webkit fails to build with --disable-geolocation
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/112004 GTK] Replace occurrences of "uri" in the documentation with "URI"

(pending a new libsoup version)

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68238 Crash while loading ​http://www.jusco.cn
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80587 [Soup] Crash when loading www.seriespepito.com. "Too many open files

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=41630 "[Soup] DNS prefetching spams resolver, shoots self in the foot"
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42432 "Enable Web Timing"

Previous versions

1.7.92

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110296 [BUILD] use detected python to run generate-gtkdoc
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110446 [GTK] r110296 included an extra $ in @$(AM_V_GEN)
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111027 [GTK] WebKitWebResource::load-failed uses the wrong marshaller
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110478 Cleanup obsolete files. (this fixes a build issue on Windows)
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110762 [GTK] Menulist buttons have separators even when the theme turns them off
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111110 [Cairo] Text extent of shadowed text is calculated incorrectly
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110999 [GTK] WebKitIconDatabase doesn't keep icons cached
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110059 [GTK] race condition in run-gtk-tests
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110060 Unreviewed, GTK build fix after r110059.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110062 [GTK] remove webkitpy dependency in run-gtk-tests
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110845 [GTK] Add command line options to run-gtk-tests script
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110847 Unreviewed, GTK build fix attempt after r110845.
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/110866 [GTK] Actually use --release and --debug command line options in run-gtk-test
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/111316 [GTK] Allow running run-gtk-tests during 'make distcheck

1.7.91

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79252 [WK2][GTK] WebProcess SIGSEVs due to incorrect clipboard handling
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79466 [WK2] [GTK] Destructor not invoked in EditorClientFrameDestructionObserver
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/108540 Explicitly include unistd.h in TestNetscapePlugIn for GCC 4.7
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79375 Supplemental interfaces are not disabled with the "Conditional" attribute
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109222 [GTK] [WK2] Add Find API
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109228 DidFindString should be emitted even if FindOptionsShowOverlay is not enabled
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109229 [GTK] Add zoom-text-only setting to WebKit2 GTK+ API
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109230 [GTK] Use text or page zoom factor in WebKitWebView depending on zoom-text-only
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109396 [GTK] Avoid building any parts of WebKitTestRunner when WK2 is disabled
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109509 WebKitTestRunner: Explicitly include unistd.h for gcc 4.7
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80150 [GTK] Invalid in check in webkit_web_view_set_zoom_level() when zoom-text-only is enabled
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109580 [GStreamer] media/media-can-play-flac-audio.html fails
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79084 REGRESSION: r108278 broke some tests that expect focus
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80241 Unit tests are noisy when run under jhbuild
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80235 "Console: undefined @0: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: WebInspector" during testwebinspector
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79877 zlib link error with --enable-webkit2
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109129 [GTK] Add GMainLoop and GMainContext to be handled by GRefPtr
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109997 [GTK] FrameLoader signals: gtk-doc fixes
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109881 [GTK] Fix several documentation issues in WebKit2 GTK+ API

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)

For changes in older stable branches see: 1.6.x