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Fedora 30 Update: WebKitGTK 2.28.1 Security Fixes and Improvements

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora's WebKitGTK 2.28.1 update brings significant improvements in rendering, stability, and performance for Wayland, ensuring a more reliable browsing experience
Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.1: * Fix position of default option element popup windows under Wayland

Summary

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the

GTK platform.

This package contains WebKit2 based WebKitGTK for GTK 3.

Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.1: * Fix position of default option element popup

windows under Wayland. * Fix rendering after a cross site navigation with PSON

enabled and hardware acceleration forced. * Fix a crash in nested wayland

compositor when closing a tab with PSON enabled. * Update Chrome and Firefox

versions in user agent quirks. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues. *

Security fixes: CVE-2020-11793

* Fri Apr 17 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.1-3

- Fix popup menus in X11.

* Mon Apr 13 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.1-1

- Update to 2.28.1. Reenable PSON.

* Thu Apr 9 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-9.1

- Fix attempt to disable PSON (WebKit #210287)

* Thu Apr 9 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-9

- Second attempt to fix ppc64le

- Forcibly disable PSON (WebKit #210287)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-11b0f45883' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 30
Version: 2.28.1
Release: 3.fc30
Summary: GTK Web content engine library

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