Release: WPE WebKit 2.48.0

Author: aperezdc

release/2025-03-15-wpewebkit-2.48.0.md

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+layout: post
+title: "WPE WebKit 2.48.0 released"
+tags: [release, stable]
+package: wpewebkit
+version: 2.48.0
+permalink: /release/wpewebkit-2.48.0.html
+---
+
+This is the first stable release in the 2.48 series.
+
+### Highlights of the WPE WebKit 2.48.0 release
+
+- Move tile rendering to worker threads when rendering with the GPU.
+- Fix intersection and filter rendering for scenes with CSS `transform-tyle: preserve-3d`.
+- Add new function for creating `Promise` objects to the JavaScriptCore GLib API.
+- The `MediaRecorder` backend gained WebM support (requires at least GStreamer 1.24.9)
+  and audio bitrate configuration support.
+- Fix invalid DPI-aware font size conversion.
+- Bring back support for OpenType-SVG fonts using the Skia SVG module.
+- Propagate the font's computed locale to HarfBuzz.
+- The GPU process build is now enabled for WebGL, but the web process is still used by default.
+  The runtime flag `UseGPUProcessForWebGL` can be used to use the GPU process for WebGL.
+- Add new `WPESettings` API in WPEPlatform for system settings.
+- Add experimental support for speech synthesis using `libspiel`, which may be enabled at
+  build time instead of Flite (with `USE_SPIEL=ON` and `USE_FLITE=OFF`).
+- Add support for building Skia when targeting Android.
+- Enable WebGL support when targeting Android.
+- Web Inspector resources are now shipped in a `GResource` bundle file, instead of the
+  `libWPEInspectorResources` shared library. This should be friendlier to packagers.
+- Improve graphics buffers handling, mainly around DMA-BUF usage, and avoid copying
+  or transforming pixel data in some of situations.
+- Remove support for GLib versions older than 2.70.
+
+#### Checksums
+
+<pre>
+wpewebkit-2.48.0.tar.xz (40.2 MiB)
+   md5sum: a7eadfc0faf25ecc28ecffcdd30a8ccc
+   sha1sum: b23ffa65381a38a0afeb10eb56e3a0525c1f5386
+   sha256sum: 25bc557fd62f06ac8393a6f638ffceff3d9f367d6d35195315fa459c82f80850
+</pre>