Fedora 43: qtwebkit Significant Optimization Enhancement 2025-892134hfed
fedora
October 3, 2025
Update to 2.50.0: Improved rendering performance by recording each layer once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads
Summary
WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the
GTK platform.
Update Information:
Update to 2.50.0: Improved rendering performance by recording each layer once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads. Enable damage propagation to the UI process by default. CSS property font-variant-emoji is now enabled by default. Font synthesis properties (bold/italic) are now properly handled. Ensure web view is focused on tap gesture. Added new API to get the theme color of a WebKitWebView.
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Change Log
* Thu Sep 18 2025 Michael Catanzaro
References
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2025-793513dcf7
2025-10-03 00:14:50.085786+00:00
Name : webkitgtk
Product : Fedora 43
Version : 2.50.0
Release : 2.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-2025-793513dcf7' 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: 2.50.0
Release: 2.fc43
Summary: GTK web content engine library
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