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Fedora 43: WebKitGTK Update 2.50.1 - Performance Enhancements and Fixes

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WebKitGTK 2.50.1 update improves rendering and fixes several issues found in Fedora 43.
Update to WebKitGTK 2.50.1: Improve text rendering performance

Summary

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

GTK platform.

Update Information:

Update to WebKitGTK 2.50.1: Improve text rendering performance. Fix audio playback broken on instagram. Fix rendering of layers with fractional transforms. Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Fix CVE-2025-43343

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Change Log

* Fri Oct 10 2025 Michael Catanzaro - 2.50.1-1 - Update to 2.50.1 * Mon Sep 29 2025 Tom Stellard - 2.50.0-3 - Backport upstream patch to fix build with clang-22

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-452a101260 2025-11-07 00:54:39.974741+00:00 Name : webkitgtk Product : Fedora 43 Version : 2.50.1 Release : 1.fc43 URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/ Summary : GTK web content engine library Description : WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the GTK platform.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-452a101260' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: webkitgtk
Product: Fedora 43
Version: 2.50.1
Release: 1.fc43
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK web content engine library

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