Preparing for 2.28.0

WebKitGTK and WPE 2.28.0 will be the next release in the stable series (following 2.26.x). We should merge not overly intrusive patches that improve stability or performance, fix build issues, etc. We branched at r 255667 (04/02/2020).

When filing bugs (​http://bugs.webkit.org) against stable release, please prefix them with "[GTK] [Stable]" (or "[WPE] [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-2.28 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 2.27.92

• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/257292 PS-2019-006: [GTK] WebKit - AXObjectCache - m_deferredFocusedNodeChange - UaF
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/256706 [GStreamer] Build failure with Clang/libc++ due to missing WallTime→float for std::isnan()

Proposed merges for 2.27.91

• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/256703 [Geoclue] Avoid usage of provider in callbacks after it has been destroyed
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/256727 [WPE] Change the QML plugin install path
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/256612 [WPE] WPEQtView.h includes the uninstalled WPEQtViewBackend.h
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/257202 [GStreamer][WPE] Add GstGLMemoryEGL support for the video-plane-display
• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/256491 Multiple GCC 10 build failures in ANGLE

Proposed merges for 2.27.90

• ​https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/255790 [GStreamer] Client-side video rendering doesn't fallback to internal compositing

Changes on track

Previous versions

For changes in older stable branches see: 2.26.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-2.28 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-2.28 branch to there, add a new remote to .git/config:

[svn-remote "webkit-2.28"]
    url = https://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-2.28
    fetch = :refs/remotes/git-svn-webkit-2.28

and run the following commands:

git svn fetch webkit-2.28 -r 255667
git branch webkit-2.28 git-svn-webkit-2.28
git checkout webkit-2.28
git svn rebase