Fedora 24: webkitgtk4 Security Update
Summary
WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK+ platform.
This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.
Update Information:
Update WebKitGTK+ package to 2.14.1. Major changes in 2.14.0: * Threaded
compositor is enabled by default in both X11 and Wayland. * Accelerated
compositing is now supported in Wayland. * Clipboard works in Wayland too. *
Memory pressure handler always works even when cgroups is not present or not
configured. * The HTTP disk cache implements speculative revalidation of
resources. * DRI3 is no longer a problem when using the modesetting intel
driver. * The amount of file descriptors that are kept open has been drastically
reduced. Fixes from 2.14.1: * MiniBrowser and jsc binaries are now installed
in pkglibexecdir instead of bindir. * Improve performance when resizing a window
with multiple web views in X11. * Check whether GDK can use GL before using
gdk_cairo_draw_from_gl() in Wayland. * Updated default UserAgent string or
better compatibility. * Fix a crash on github.com in
IntlDateTimeFormat::resolvedOptions when using the C locale. * Fix BadDamage X
errors when closing the web view in X11. * Fix UIProcess crash when using
Japanese input method. * Fix build with clang due to missing header includes. *
Fix the build with USE_REDIRECTED_XCOMPOSITE_WINDOW disabled. * Fix several
crashes and rendering issues. * Translation updates: German. Update Epiphany to
be compatible with the new WebKitGTK+ package.
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-f4b5897686 2016-10-18 11:22:09.730738 Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 24 Version : 2.14.1 Release : 1.fc24 URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/ Summary : GTK+ Web content engine library Description : WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ platform. This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update webkitgtk4' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .