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EXTRA, EXTRA! 🗞️ For this new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition, number 82, we have a mixed bag of updates: a libsoup release, improvements to subprocess spawning, deprecation of the libwpe-based APIs, and the usual trickle of work on the new SVG engine. Check it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Sometimes we post about a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition early in the week, sometimes later on; but there's always something juicy to read about. Go check number 82 today! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Some weeks see more activity reported, and some others less; but nevertheless a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition is always welcome! Here's number 81, which is mostly about fixes that bring incremental improvements nevertheless: 📜: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Did anybody think that we would not have a #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition this week? Well, look behind you, we have made it to number 80! 🎉 This one comes with updates to the layer-based SVG engine, better filters, enabling a new WebCrypto backend, and more: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Claudio has published a new article in the WPE WebKit's website, providing a deep dive into WPE Platform and how it brings a much better (and simpler!) experience vs the now deprecated legacy libWPE API. Make sure you don't miss it! wpewebkit.org/blog/2026-10...

Álex is back this week, this time writing about WPE Skia's Deferred Display Lists. In his post, he explains how running WPE on Android allowed us to spot issues and improve the rendering architecture in WPE. Read it all at blogs.igalia.com/alex/2026/10...

Today we are highlighting Nikolas Zimmermann's blog post about bringing damage to WPE WebKit & WebKitGTK's new Skia compositor. This feature allows us to track which regions of the page view have changed since previous frames, avoiding unnecessary repaints. Check it out!

Our colleague Carlos has written about the recent changes that brought Skia-based compositing to WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK 2.54: among other things, we perform >30% better in the benchmarks we run, compared to the results TextureMapper previously achieved. More at blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/202...

Riding on the wave of the 2.54 release series, comes #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment number 78! 🏄 — blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... While stable and blog posts about it are good to have, development continues with more graphics work, and fixes for Sysprof mark collection 🛠️

WebKitGTK 2.54.0 has been released! The WebKit team at @igalia.com is happy to announce this new series, which comes with lots of improvements. Read the details at webkitgtk.org/2026/09/16/w...

While waiting for the next stable release series, why not reading a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment? Number 77 comes with more graphics-related work, and a new article about running @wpewebkit.org on the Raspberry Pi with the new WPEPlatform API. 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Another week goes by, and installment 76 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is up! This one focused on ironing out graphics issues in preparation for the upcoming 2.54.x release series. Did we say release? There was another set of packaged release candidates, too! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

It's time again for #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals! #WIP issue 75 is out: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... The team has been moving full steam ahead with the Layer-Based SVG Engine, and graphics improvements; but we also had other news such as SDK updates, a new WebsitePolicies API, and more.

New #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition packed with graphics, multimedia, and tooling updates. Which sure has something to do with release candidates being published for 2.54.x. Also, do not miss the new stable release being published with fixes for security issues! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Following an extra packed periodical, this week we get back to a more regular pace with two nice bugfixes, and a new tool to analyze WebKit performance on Linux! #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals issue #73 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

In this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals: improvements to both the new Skia-based compositor and a fix for the classic TextureMapper one, blog posts on the new SVG engine and WPE's new API, and other assorted improvements. Read it while it's hot out of the presses: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... 📯

It's time for another #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals post! The summer continues with many updates to the new SVG engine (LBSE), improvements to the new Skia-based compositor, some small API additions, and ever-important stable releases with security fixes. 👉 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This week the @webengineshackfest.org is in full force, and the amount of patches has gone done a bit as a result. Nevertherless there has been work on Close Watchers, moveBefore, and input methods ⌨️ Check them out at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Another week, another great #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition: new compositor improvements, a blog post about finding memory leaks, multimedia fixes, and more. 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This week there have been new development and stable releases. The latter including security fixes—go and update now! But there's more in this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment: work on Web platform features, spell checking for the WPE port, and more! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

For this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment we have a neat collection of news: `dialog.requestClose()` improvements, rendering fixes, improvements to the container SDK, and the new Skia-based compositor getting enabled by default. Read it all at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

As the development cycle continues, more unstable releases hit the shelves, along with juicer updates... and one more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, making it to number 64 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Did we say weekly? Well, not quite, but a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is now live: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This one covers three weeks, and features really many releases, tricky threading tuning, Web APIs work, and more.

One more week, one more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition. Number 62 includes notes on support for iOS dialog light dismiss, a new API to obtain page icons, WebKit nightly builds for Epiphany Canary produced by GNOME GitLab, and multimedia improvements. blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

A new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals entry appears... → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This week comes with a mixed bag of new features, incremental improvements, and a new release with the ever important security issue fixes. Also: more blog posts!

The WebKit team at @igalia.com is happy to announce the release of WebKitGTK 2.52! Read the details about this release at webkitgtk.org/2026/03/18/w...

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals covers a handful of news: rumble support for gamepads, configurable video decoding limits, a text rendering tweak, and one more release candidate for @wpewebkit.org and @webkitgtk.org Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals covers added support for vendor-specific hardware media codecs, using texture atlases to image uploads together, and one more release candidate published for @webkitgtk.org and @wpewebkit.org 📜 Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

We've been quiet, but here's a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... In this week we multimedia work, a fix for a rendering regression, and a fix for a font selection issue. Also notable we had a new WPE Android release, and the libsoup 3.6.6 release.

New week, new WIP! Number 56 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is live: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This week: @fosdem.org had presentations about WebKit; we got new stable and development releases, asynchronous scrolling work, OpenGL logging, cleanups, and improving the inspector for the WPE work.

Just arrived in Brussels for the 2026 edition of #FOSDEM! Happy to be back after 6 years and looking forward to be talking about the current status and plans for @webkitgtk.org and @wpewebkit.org, tomorrow at 13:30 in the "Browser and Web Platform" devroom. See you there! fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

In this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals: the creation of a branch for stable versions, plus the first release candidate from it; WPE gets hyphenation and ability to notify of graphics buffer changes; and both ports get graphics fixes and new Web features. Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

We're back! The first #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment of 2026 brings you performance optimizations, improvements to the memory footprint calculation, new APIs, the removal of the legacy Qt5 WPE backend, and as always, progress on JSC's Temporal implementation → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

It's the holiday season 🎄, and here's the last #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment of the year! It comes packed with new releases, a couple of functions added to the public API, cleanups, better timer handling, and improvements to MathML and WebXR support. blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

In this end-of-year special 🎄 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals we have a new GMallocString helper that makes management of malloc-based strings more efficient, development releases, and a handful of advancements on the #JavaScriptCore implementation of Temporal. blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Today #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals reaches number 50 🙌 This week we continued fleshing out the Temporal implementation, added support for super-tiled buffers when running on Vivante GPUs, and cleaned up WPEPlatform a little more. blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

The main highlights for this week's installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals are the completion of “PlainMonthDay” in Temporal, moving networking access for GstWebRTC to the WebProcess, and Xbox Cloud Gaming now working in WebKitGTK and WPE—and more! Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... 📝

Highlights of the 2.50 release series! webkitgtk.org/2025/11/26/w...

This week we have enabled the Web view snapshot API for @wpewebkit.org, progress continued on Temporal and Trusted Types, and version 2.50.2 has been released. Find out in the latest installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals at 👉 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals update includes a new “CStringView” internal API, more MathML progress with the implementation of the “scriptlevel” attribute, the removal of the Flatpak-based SDK, and a maintenance update of WPEBackend-fdo. Read it all at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

For the latest installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals we have a hodgepodge of fixes in Temporal and multimedia, an addition to the public API in preparation for future work, plus advances in WebExtensions, WebXR, and Android support. Here's happened this week: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

A calmer week this time! In this #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment we cover the “RunLoopObserver” infrastructure, more information in “webkit://gpu”, and on the Trusted Types front the timing of check was changed to align with spec changes. Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

About to present our usual "Igalia and WebKit: Status Update and Plans" (2025 edition) talk in a couple of hours at the #WebKit Contributors Meeting. Lots of updates covering the work of several teams at @igalia.com, I hope it will be interesting and that we'll get some good feedback and questions!

New week, new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment! → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This week we got WebXR feature work, graphics performance improvements, MathML additions, a fix for hue interpolation, a fix for WebDriver screenshots, development releases and a blog post about memory profiling.

This week was calmer than previous week but we still had some meaningful updates. Check the last #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, number 43, at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

#WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals issue #42 is available → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... Including Temporal updates, the testing infrastructure now runs WebXR API tests; WebKitGTK fixes Web Inspector resize, drops support for libsoup2; and releases of both the WPE and GTK ports including a security fix.

Another exciting weekful of updates, covering many fronts: MathML, Trusted Types, WebExtensions, multimedia, graphics... Issue #41 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals has it all! blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

The big news this week is that we have released version 2.50.0, the first one in a new stable series! 🙌 But this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals has also updates on WebXR testing, WebExtensions progress, and fixing multimedia memory leaks. Read more about it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

For this week's installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals the JavaScriptCore implementation of Temporal continues to be polished, as does SVGAElement, and WPE and WebKitGTK accessibility tests can now run (but they are not passing yet). Read more at WIP #38 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Like most Mondays, here's a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, number 36 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... The topics for this installment include WebXR, Android, multimedia, and standards compliance 🙋