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 2.1.92

• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155515 Unquoted $ORIGDIR in autogen.sh
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155517 autogen.sh: fix removal of autom4te.cache
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155533 [WK2] [GTK] LayerTreeHostGtk: don't set m_isValid to false if glContext() returns null
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155677 download-requested arg should be WEBKIT_TYPE_DOWNLOAD not G_TYPE_OBJECT
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155757 and ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155772 [GTK] Fails to compile if the build directory is in a different partition
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155758 Uses gtk-doc tools even when --disable-gtk-doc passed
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155768 [GTK] WebKitGTK+ is linking against libxslt in too many places
• ​​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155778 Missing allow-none introspection annotation for DomDocument.evaluate method

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
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155245 [GTK] Bump the required Clang version to 3.2
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/154728 [GTK][WK2] Disable accelerated compositing under Wayland
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155125 [WK2] [GTK] Remove the test to disable AC under Wayland from WebKitWebViewGroup
• ​http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/155329 [GTK] ghost cursor when mouse hovers over an image file in a tab

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