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Fedora 26: FEDORA-2017-dfaf0ca892 Moderate: WebKitGTK4 Update Improvements

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The Fedora 27 webkitgtk4 upgrade boosts efficiency through optimized graphics rendering and better memory management.
Highlights of the 2.16.0 release: * Hardware acceleration is now enabled on demand to drastically reduce memory consumption

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 of the 2.16.0 release: * Hardware acceleration is now enabled on demand to drastically reduce memory consumption. * CSS Grid Layout is enabled by default. * New WebKitSetting to set the hardware acceleration policy. * UI process API to configure network proxy settings. * Improved private browsing by adding new API to create ephemeral web views. * New API to handle website data. * Debug tools: memory sampler and resource usage overlay Translation updates: * Brazilian Portuguese * German * Polish ---- This update brings the following changes: * Show the context menu when triggered by the keyboard. * Fix web process deadlocks when destroying the media player. * Fix web process crashes when loading animated GIFs. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Translation updates: * Polish.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora memory consumption private browsing WebKitGTK update enhancements

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-dfaf0ca892 2017-04-01 16:46:19.661791
Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 2.16.0 Release : 1.fc26 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 "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade webkitgtk4' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: webkitgtk4
Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.16.0
Release: 1.fc26
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora memory consumption private browsing WebKitGTK update enhancements

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