Preparing for 2.10.0

WebkitGtk+ 2.10.0 will be the next release in the stable series (following 2.8.x). We should merge not overly intrusive patches that improve stability or performance, fix build issues, etc. We branched at r188381 (13/08/15).

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. (Don't use "[Stable]" if the bug also applies to master, though.)

To get the stable branch code, simply check out ​http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-2.10

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 2.10.10

• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/200188 AX: [ATK] We need to be smarter about flattening and the accessible text implementation
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/199229 AX: [ATK] Crash getting text under element in CSS table
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153956 REGRESSION(r196222): [AX][GTK] accessibility/gtk/caret-offsets.html failing
  (The reason for including this is because in the process of fixing the Layout-Test-only failure, I discovered and fixed a bug in the caret-moved event for list items which would cause Orca to speak the wrong character during caret navigation.)

Proposed merges for 2.10.9

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194518 WebKit fails to build with musl libc library
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/196467 [GTK] Allow applications to disable Accelerated Compositing mode.

Proposed merges for 2.10.8

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/196051 JSSymbolTableObject::deleteProperty() crashes deleting Symbols

Proposed merges for 2.10.6

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/195586 [GTK] WebProcess crashes when quickly attempting many DnD operations

Proposed merges for 2.10.5

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192496 WebFrameLoaderClient::dispatchDecidePolicyForNavigationAction calls an std::function after it's been moved from
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192574 [Cairo] SolidStroke broken in drawLine after r191658
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192510 [GTK] Web Process crashes on reparenting a WebView with AC mode on
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/193648 ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/193745 Crashes on PPC64 due to mprotect() on address not aligned to the page size
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/193626 [GTK] Allow applications to force Accelerated Compositing mode
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/193830 [GTK] Crash in WebProcess when loading large content with custom URI schemes
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194155 Legacy style scrollbars do not change color when you mouse over them if you are scrolled
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194498 [GTK] webkit 2.3.5 build failure with python 3.3.4
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/194846 [WK2][GTK] Propagate motion-notify-event signals from the WebView

Proposed merges for 2.10.4

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/191618 [GTK] InstallMissingMediaPluginsPermissionRequest not defined when building without GStreamer
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/191619 [GTK] Build GL texture mapper only if USE_TEXTURE_MAPPER_GL
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/191856 [GTK] Fix combinations of PLATFORM(GTK) and OS(DARWIN)
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192095 [GTK] Re-enable Quartz backend on cmake build system
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192096 [GTK] Fails to link libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so on OSX
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150618 [SOUP] Cannot build the network process in glibc-based BSD systems
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146194 ASSERTION FAILED: typesettingFeatures & (Kerning | Ligatures) in WebCore::applyFontTransforms
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/191077 (not specific to ContentExtensions) Make blocked async XHR call onerror

Proposed merges for 2.10.1

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190405 [GTK] Web Inspector: Add GTK+ icons for the numerical input and slider based Visual editors for CSS properties
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190404 [GTK] Web Inspector: Add GTK+ icons for the different types of non-numerical Visual editors for CSS properties
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190369 [GTK] Web Inspector: Add GTK+ icon for the Bezier curve visual editor
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190345 [GTK] Build error with -DENABLE_SPELLCHECK=OFF
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189912 [GTK] Crash in WebKit::BackingStore::createBackend running under Wayland
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190857 [GTK] Fails to link JavaScriptCore in OS X, missing symbols add_history and readline
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190856 [GTK] Don't use --version-script on Darwin
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190909 [GTK] OSX linker doesn't understand --whole-archive
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144785 [GTK] Fails to link libwebkit2gtkinjectedbundle.so on OSX
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148606 [GTK] Build GL texture mapper only if USE_TEXTURE_MAPPER_GL
• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148607 [GTK] InstallMissingMediaPluginsPermissionRequest not defined when building without GStreamer
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/190615 [GTK] ENABLE_OPENGL=OFF builds still include GL-specific files
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/188973 [GTK] Disable ACCELERATED_2D_CANVAS by default

Proposed merges for 2.9.92

• ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149064 [GTK] Web Process crash recovery no longer works
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189170 [Freetype] FontCache::strengthOfFirstAlias leaks an FcPattern
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189133 JavaScriptCore fails to build using GCC 5
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189526 Crash when WebCore::SQLiteFileSystem::openDatabase is called from multiple threads
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189566 [GTK] Volume bar is broken

Translations:

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189661 [GTK] [l10n] Updated Turkish translation of WebKitGTK+
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189663 [l10n] Updated Polish translation of WebKitGTK+
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189664 [l10n] Updated Bulgarian translation
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189665 Webkit Tamil translations updated
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189666 Updated Slovenian translation
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189667 Updated Spanish translation
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/189673 Webkit Gujarati Translations

Proposed merges for 2.9.91

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/188902 Clear cairo-gl surface for initialization

Changes on track

Previous versions

For changes in older stable branches see: 2.8.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''~~,"

How to add a webkit-2.10 branch to existing git-svn clone

If you have already cloned ​git://git.webkit.org/WebKit.git, it only contains a git-svn clone of the svn trunk. To add webkit-2.10 branch to there, add a new remote to .git/config:

[svn-remote "webkit-2.10"]
    url = http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-2.10
    fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-webkit-2.10

and run the following commands:

git svn fetch webkit-2.10 -r 188381
git branch webkit-2.10 git-svn-webkit-2.10
git checkout webkit-2.10
git svn rebase