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Fedora 23: FEDORA-2016-cb7a73c82e Moderate: WebkitGTK4 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 24, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Fedora Update Notice for webkitgtk4 emphasizes significant advancements in release 2.12.1, boosting both security measures and overall performance.
Highlights in 2.12.0: * Enable FTL by default in JavaScriptCore for x86_64

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:

Highlights in 2.12.0: * Enable FTL by default in JavaScriptCore for x86_64. * Network process is now used unconditionally. The shared secondary process model is now the same as using the multiple process model and setting a process limit of 1. * Switch to use overlay scrollbars like all other GTK+ widgets and ensure the behavior is consistent with GTK+ too. * Support for windowless NPAPI plugins with no UI in non X11 platforms. * Enable GSS-Negotiate support when available in libsoup. * Improved general performance by better handling glib main loop sources. * New API to save and restore a WebView session. Highlights in 2.12.1: * Fix spotify player. * Improve themed control elements rendering to better match GTK+ widgets. * Make remote web inspector work again. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues. * Fix several memory leaks. * Fix the build in Linux / PowerPC. * Fix detection of S390X and PPC64 architectures. * Fix the build in glibc-based BSD systems * Tran...

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora performance improvement webkitgtk4

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-cb7a73c82e 2016-04-24 01:34:43.161031
Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 23 Version : 2.12.1 Release : 1.fc23 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 .

Name: webkitgtk4
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 2.12.1
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora performance improvement webkitgtk4

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