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Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #39

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · 15d

The big news this week is that we have released version 2.50.0, the first one in a new stable series! 🙌

But this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals has also updates on WebXR testing, WebExtensions progress, and fixing multimedia memory leaks. Read more about it at
blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #38

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · 23d

For this week's installment of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals the JavaScriptCore implementation of Temporal continues to be polished, as does SVGAElement, and WPE and WebKitGTK accessibility tests can now run (but they are not passing yet).

Read more at WIP #38 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #36

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Sep 1

Like most Mondays, here's a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, number 36 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

The topics for this installment include WebXR, Android, multimedia, and standards compliance 🙋

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #35

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Aug 26

For this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals we have issue number 35, covering the continued work in the WebXR front, support for the CSS “math” generic font family for, improvements in the graphics stack, and an Igalia Chats episode!

Get it while it's fresh! blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #34

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Igalia @igalia.com · Aug 25

We are ready for ##OSSummit in Amsterdam. We will be showcasing multiple demos in our booth, from our latest developments in the embedded world, a new kernel scheduler, latest developments in graphics drivers, new Skia backend in WPEWebKit, among others.

The Igalia booth, with 3 smiling igalians standing behind a lot of devices and demos

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Aug 19

Here's one more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, making it to number 34: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...
Featuring updates on WebXR support, improved changing of audio outputs, enabling of GLib API with the JSCOnly port, improvements to damaging propagation, WPEPlatform enhancements, and more!

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #33

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Aug 11

One more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, although this one covers two weeks rather than the usual one → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This one covers recent releases, both stable and development snapshots; plus graphics work, mainly around #WebXR.

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #32

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jul 29

WIP issue number 32 has been published → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...
This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals report included graphics work and improvements to WPEPlatform.

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and wor...

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mariospr.bsky.social @mariospr.bsky.social · Jul 23

Quick PSA on that my colleagues Patrick and Georges from @igalia.com will present 2 talks tomorrow (July 24th) on the first day of #GUADEC:

* "GNOME Live Streaming & Outreach: 6 Years Later": 9:40 AM CEST

* "State of libsoup": 12:30 PM CEST

See events.gnome.org/event/259/ti... for details

GUADEC 2025

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jul 21

Some multimedia bits here, some packaging bobs there... It's a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment! 🔩
This week: improvements to the GStreamer-based WebRTC backend, internal resource loading, make SQLite reclaim free space, and some packaging changes.
WIP #31 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #31

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and wor...

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mariospr.bsky.social @mariospr.bsky.social · Jul 17

Just one week to go for #GUADEC, where my colleagues Patrick and Georges from our #WebKit team, along with people from other teams at @igalia.com, will present some talks and lead a couple of BoFs related to their work on #GNOME.

See events.gnome.org/event/259/ti... for more details and stay tuned!

GUADEC 2025

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jul 14

Most Mondays there is a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment. As is the case today! 📣

This week saw a fix for IPv6 scope-ids in DNS responses, frame pointers re-enabled in JSC developer builds, and a significant improvement to emoji fonts selection.

WIP #30 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #30

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #29

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jul 7

Look behind you, a three-headed monkey^W^W new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment!

This one includes improvements to Sysprof, WebKit's usage of mpark::variant, major WebXR overhauling, and support for the logd service on Android.

WIP #29 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #28

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jul 1

Did another week just go by? Yes it did, as can be inferred from another #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment being published! 🗞️
WIP #28 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #27

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jun 23

Tune in for the latest #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment 📻

This week saw a variety of fixes on multimedia, including GStreamer, a fix for JSC, and the addition of analog gamepad buttons support for WPE.

WIP #27 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #26

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · Jun 16

After a short hiatus coinciding with this year's edition of the Web Engines Hackfest, #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals issue number 26 covers a mixed bag of new API features, releases, multimedia, and graphics work.

Check it out while it's fresh! blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

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WPE WebKit @wpewebkit.org · Jun 3

The Multimedia in WebKit breakout session with @base-art.net at the @webengineshackfest.org is about to start! You can join the session in jitsi here: meet.jit.si/WEH2025-Mult...

Phil about to start his breakout session during the Web Engines Hackfest.

2025 Web Engines Hackfest

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 30

All talks will be live streamed and a Jitsi Meet link will be available for those interested in participating remotely. You can find all the details at webengineshackfest.org, and for further updates, don't forget to follow @webengineshackfest.org !

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on spe...

webengineshackfest.org

Web Engines Hackfest. Contribute to Igalia/webengineshackfest development by creating an account on GitHub.

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 30

There are many more interesting talks and sessions, for the full schedule, check github.com/Igalia/weben....

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Multimedia in WebKit · Issue #58 · Igalia/webengineshackfest

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 30

“Multimedia in WebKit”, by Philippe Normand (Tuesday 3rd at 12:00 CEST), will focus on the current status and future plans for the multimedia stack in WebKit: github.com/Igalia/weben...

Logistics Date & Time: Tuesday 3rd June at 12:00 CEST (local time) URL: https://meet.jit.si/WEH2025-Multimedia Notes: https://hackmd.io/@rego/WEH2025-Multimedia/edit Room: CSS Facilitator(s) @philn...

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2025 Web Engines Hackfest

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 30

“Jumping Over the Garden Wall - WPE WebKit on Android”, by Adrián Pérez (Monday 2nd at 16:00 CEST) with a status update about the effort to bring WebKit into Android via WPE: webengineshackfest.org#wpe-android

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on spe...

webengineshackfest.org

Web Engines Hackfest. Contribute to Igalia/webengineshackfest development by creating an account on GitHub.

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 30

The @webengineshackfest.org 2025 is kicking off next Monday in A Coruña and among all the interesting talks and sessions about different engines, there are a few that can be interesting to people involved one way or another with WebKitGTK.

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WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 26

This #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals covers updates on the Android version of WPE, the introduction of a new mechanism to support memory-mappable buffers which can lead to better performance, a new gamepad API to WPE, and other improvements.

WIP #25 is now available at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #25

Igalia WebKit Team | WebKit Igalia Periodical #24

WebKitGTK @webkitgtk.org · May 19

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals features infrastructure improvements, new releases that include security fixes, and external projects that use the GTK and WPE ports.

WIP #24 is now available to read at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...