WebKitGTK 2.51.1 is available for download at: https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.51.1.tar.xz (44.1MB) md5sum: 856bd095738adab6ba21bbec43d409a5 sha1sum: 8f97456840e1de08b174bb0b226d671dd59c8bfb sha256sum: 01d0aa6375a60188b5835d91e75daf8f5f734d2ff906f37e89c4a632123c3fe9
This is the first development release leading toward 2.52 series.
What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.51.1 release?
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- Use the GPU process for WebGL by default.
- Add initial API for web extensions.
- Add API to handle WebXR permission requests.
- Add new API to query the immersive session status.
- Improve text rendering performance
- Compute the layers tile size, using a different strategy depending on
whether
GPU rendering is enabled.
- Add support for run loop observers that are now used to replace the layer
flush
timer and properly implement the opportunistic task scheduler.
- Fix rendering fo gradients with hue interpolation method.
- Fix rendering of layers with fractional transforms.
- Fix pasting image data (like image/png) from the clipboard.
- Remove support for building with libsoup2.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Slovenian, Swedish.
What is WebKitGTK?
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WebKitGTK is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine.
Offering WebKit's full functionality through a set of GObject-based
APIs, it is suitable for projects requiring any kind of web
integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web
browsers.
More information
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If you want to know more about the project or get in touch with us
you may:
- Visit our website at https://www.webkitgtk.org or the upstream
site at https://www.webkit.org - people interested in contributing
should read: https://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html.
- Browse the bug list at https://bugs.webkit.org
WebKitGTK bugs are typically prefixed by "[GTK]." A bug report with
a minimal, reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch.
- Join the #webkitgtk:matrix.org Matrix channel.
- Subscribe to the WebKitGTK mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk or the
WebKit development mailing list,
https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Thanks
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Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release, they
are far too many to list!
The WebKitGTK team,
October 24, 2025
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Carlos Garcia Campos
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