Preparing for 2.2.0

WebkitGtk+ 2.2.0 will be the next release in the stable series (following 2.0.x). We should merge not overly intrusive patches that improve stability or performance, fix build issues, etc. We branched at r154665 (08/27/13).

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-2.2

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 2.1.91

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155104 [Qt][WK1] REGRESSION(r154988): compositing/video/video-with-invalid-source.html
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155049 REGRESSION(r154977): Do not urlencode soup message on ResourceRequest::toSoupMessage()
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155024 [GStreamer] cannot play live streams
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154988 [GStreamer] Don't set state to NULL until element is destroyed
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154977 [gstreamer] Disable HTTP request "Accept-Encoding:" header field on gstreamer source element to avoid receiving the wrong size when retrieving data
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154841 [GTK] Should enable WebGL by default on MiniBrowser
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154683 [gstreamer] Make sure gstreamer source element is thread-safe
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155066 [WK2][GTK] ASSERTION in WebKit::LayerTreeHostGtk::invalidate
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154970 [GStreamer] Video player sets system volume to 100%
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154944 Volume slider value should be 0 when audio is muted
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155039 Color of input button's text broken with recent gnome-themes-standard
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155032 [GTK] Add support for the Wayland build target
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155193 [GTK] GlibUtilities: getCurrentExecutablePath() does not compile on GNU/Hurd
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155210 GTest: add support for FreeBSD and Hurd

Changes on track

Previous versions

For changes in older stable branches see: 2.0.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-2.2 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-2.2 branch to there, add a new remote to .git/config:

[svn-remote "webkit-2.2"]
    url = http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-2.2
    fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-webkit-2.2

and run the following commands:

git svn fetch webkit-2.2 -r 154665
git branch --track webkit-2.2 git-svn-webkit-2.2
git checkout webkit-2.2
git svn rebase