This is the first development release towards WebKitGTK+ 2.2 series

Jun 6, 2013 07:58 GMT  ·  By

The WebKitGTK+ developers announced a few days ago that a new development version of the WebKit-based open source web engine that uses GTK+ as its user-facing front-end is available for download and testing.

WebKitGTK+ 2.1.1 adds the webkit_uri_scheme_request_finish_error function to the WebKit2 GTK+ API, a setting to WebKit2, useful for sending console log messages to stdout, and a setting to enable or disable the accelerated 2D canvas in WebKit2.

EGL is now always used to create the GL context when running on the Wayland display server, support for video accelerated compositing and audio/speex MIME type has been added to the GStreamer backend, and several bugs have been fixed. More details can be found in the official release announcement.

Download WebKitGTK+ 2.1.1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.