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+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.3.3
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.3?
+
+ - Fixes to compile with latest GTK+ 2.90.x.
+ - Add support for dropping content in WebKitWebViews.
+ - Many other bugfixes.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.3.2
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.2?
+
+*** This release is an ABI break ***
+
+The library has been renamed to libwebkitgtk, so you'll need to
+recompile your applications when upgrading to 1.3.2.
+
+ - Add support for GTK+ 3.x. A new configure flag, --with-gtk, has
+ been added, which allows to control which GTK+ version you want to
+ build against. The default value is '2.0', for GTK+ 2.x
+ support. With '3.0' the library will be compiled against GTK+ 3.x
+ (2.90.4 or newer required). In the 3.x mode the .pc file has been
+ renamed from webkit-X.X.pc to webkitgtk-X.X.pc, so you'll need to
+ update your autotools setup accordingly.
+ - Many fixes for the DOM bindings, including support to dispatch
+ events to any Node through webkit_event_target_dispatch_event.
+ - Added a 'inner-node' property to WebKitHitTestResult, carrying the
+ DOM node where the hit test happened.
+ - Many DnD fixes, including a fix for the infamous hang-of-death
+ while dragging the mouse.
+ - Support for <input type="range">.
+ - Many other bugfixes.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.3.1
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.3.1?
+
+ - Initial support for GObject DOM bindings. Present in this release
+ is a substantial subset of the basic DOM APIs (Document, HTML
+ elements, Node, etc) including access to the DOM events through
+ GObject signals. Keep in mind that all the APIs are still
+ unstable, and will probably be subject to changes before the next
+ stable release.
+ - Add webkit_web_back_forward_list_clear, to completely clear the
+ BackForward list.
+ - Lots of improvements in DOM clipboard and drag-drop access.
+ - Add support for GTK+ key themes.
+ - Significant improvements in a11y, including improved role support
+ and many bugfixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90?
+
+ - Display server side messages during HTTP auth, since they
+ sometimes contain important information for the authentication
+ process.
+ - Reduce creation time for WebKitWebView widgets by reusing
+ dictionary structs used for spell-checking instead of creating a
+ new one for each instance.
+ - Implement WebKitWebView::geolocation-policy-decision-requested,
+ emitted when a frame inside the WebView wants to get its position
+ through geolocation.
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-spatial-navigation to control
+ whether Spatial Navigation is enabled or not. Spatial Navigation
+ allows the user to move through the elements in a page using only
+ the keyboard; this is similar to caret browsing, but with less
+ focus on accessibility since instead of presenting the exact
+ layout of the page to the user a more "logical" way of browsing
+ through its contents is allowed. A specification of this feature
+ can be seen at
+ http://www.w3.org/TR/WICD/#current-focus-point-algorithm
+ - Add a new build option, --enable-fast-mobile-scrolling. At the
+ moment this only disables fixed backgrounds when there are no
+ other fixed elements in a page, since they generally make
+ scrolling very slow and thus are a big burden in some mobile
+ environments.
+ - GTK+ Input Method support has received a big overhaul, and most of
+ them should work pretty well now.
+ - All known redraw issues in the plugin support (especially with the
+ Java plugin) have been fixed.
+ - Various fixes to the MediaPlayer code to improve responsiveness
+ and avoid lagging on position reporting.
+ - Lots of bugfixes and other improvements.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.22
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.22?
+
+ - Preliminary support for Java plugins. Basic functionality is
+ there, but there are still a few rough edges. Also newly
+ introduced is a new WebKitWebSetting, 'enable-java-applet', which
+ controls whether WebKit will recognize the non-standard <applet>
+ tag.
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::auto-resize-window; when enabled, WebKit
+ will act upon the DOM methods that change the size and/or position
+ of the window containing a WebView (window.{moveTo, resizeTo,
+ moveBy, resizeBy}).
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-file-access-from-file-uris; when
+ enabled, each file:// URI will be assigned its own security
+ domain.
+ - Lots of bugfixes, especially in the PageCache support.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.21
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.21?
+
+ - New custom-made GStreamer source element that uses the WebCore
+ network layer to download media data; this makes sure any headers
+ and cookies will automatically get added when making requests.
+ - WebKit will now let libsoup know who the first party for a given
+ message is, making it possible to implement accept/deny policies in
+ Soup.
+ - The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20?
+
+ - Fixes to the HTML5 Media Player infrastructure to satisfy sites
+ that require cookies, and Referer to be sent; this makes
+ WebKitGTK+ able to support the new HTML5 support added to Youtube,
+ and Vimeo, for instance.
+ - Windowless plugin support is finally here, making it possible to
+ get plugins to behave on various web pages.
+ - The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.19
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.19?
+
+ - Improvements to AtkText implementation
+ - RGBA colormap support has been added
+ - Improvements to the HTML5 media player
+ - Crashes related to clipboard handling, which were hitting many
+ users and seemed to be random have been fixed
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.18
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.18?
+
+ - Add methods to set and get a cache model in WebKitGTK+. We offer
+ two possibilites: document viewer (no caches are used) and browser
+ (similar to the previous defaults).
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-page-cache. Controls whether the
+ Page Cache is enabled or not. For details about what the page
+ cache is and does see
+ http://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/
+ The page cache is disabled by default, since the gtk+ port still
+ presents some small bugs when it's enabled.
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-site-specific-quirks. Controls
+ whether a series of page-specific workarounds are used by WebKit.
+ - Use Content-Encoding support available in libsoup 2.28.2 and
+ newer.
+ - Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-default-context-menu. Controls
+ whether webkitgtk+ will show a default context menu on right click
+ in the view. Note that even with the property set to FALSE right
+ clicks can be handled by the page, either by actions or by
+ ad-hoc in-page context menus.
+ - Make the WebKitWebView::icon-loaded signal carry a string with the
+ favicon's URI. This is an API break, but the signal already had a
+ broken signature and was useless anyway, so it's extremely
+ unlikely that anybody was using it. Also, add the 'icon-uri'
+ property to the view, holding the URI for its current favicon.
+ - Respect Content-Disposition header in downloads (fixes downloads
+ in gmail).
+ - Various accessibility improvements.
+ - Many bugfixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.17
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.17?
+
+ - New APIs to show and close the web inspector and to inspect an
+ element at the given coordinates.
+ - New property, WebKitWebSettings::tab-key-cycles-through-elements,
+ controls whether TAB is simply interpreted as another keystroke or
+ is used to cycle through the elements in a page.
+ - Many a11y improvements.
+ - The usual amount of random bugfixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.16
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.16?
+
+ - Add optional support to generate the gobject-introspection
+ gir/typelib files. Enable with --enable-introspection, it's off by
+ default.
+ - Add a new load status value, WEBKIT_LOAD_FAILED, emitted when
+ there's an error during the load process. This is the natural
+ companion to WEBKIT_LOAD_FINISHED, which is only emitted when the
+ load finished succesfuly.
+ - Ensure that keyboard events filtered by GtkIMContext still create
+ the proper DOM events.
+ - Many a11y improvements: caret browsing fixes, expose heading
+ levels, more accessible roles supported, more work in correctly
+ showing the element's ancestry list, improved support for lists,
+ etc.
+ - Many improvements to our media support.
+ - Add a new setting to control DOM pastes
+ (document.execCommand("Paste"))
+ - Many, many bugfixes all over the place.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15?
+
+ - New API to get the subresources from a WebKitWebDataSource. This
+ provides a way of accessing all the resources that compose the
+ view to which the data source is attached.
+ - A new function, webkit_web_view_get_hit_test_result, which allows
+ to do a 'hit test' on the coordinates specified by a mouse
+ event. A hit test provides context information about that point in
+ the document, like whether it's an image, a link, an input box,
+ etc.
+ - Our DumpRenderTree implementation now supports eventSender, which
+ allows us to run many more LayoutTests and make WebKitGTK+ more
+ stable and feature-complete.
+ - JSNES runs 6x faster: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/48573
+ - The usual small improvements and bugfixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.14
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.14?
+
+ - New API has been added to WebKitWebFrame to allow applying
+ scrollbars policy as requested by web applications to the main
+ frame; if the parent of the WebKitWebView widget is a
+ GtkScrolledWindow, policy is applied by the default handler.
+ - A new API has been added to help dealing with the various
+ resources that are downloaded to compose the final rendering; you
+ can now obtain the source code for a page that is loaded, for
+ instance.
+ - A new property has been added to WebKitWebView to allow setting it
+ to "View Source" mode.
+ - HTML5 database has gained API to manage the individual databases,
+ including usage and quota.
+ - A new signal `resource-request-starting' has been added to the
+ WebKitWebView to allow modification of outgoing requests for every
+ resource.
+ - Connection limit has been increased to 60 total connections, 6
+ per-host, matching other browsers more closely; this seems to have
+ improved loading time of some sites.
+ - Undo/redo support has been added to editable texts.
+ - The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.13
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.13?
+
+ - GNOME Keyring support was removed in favor of the new Password
+ Manager soup feature; to get exactly the same behavior,
+ applications should use SoupPasswordManagerGNOME. This requires
+ libsoup 2.27.91 or newer.
+ - Several accessibility improvements, including support for testing
+ the a11y infrastructure in our layout tests.
+ - You can now enable/disable HTML5 offline application cache using a
+ new setting added to WebKitWebSettings.
+ - Drag support has landed, meaning you can start playing with HTML5
+ drag and drop support; drop support is still missing.
+ - A crash with scripts closing windows has been fixed.
+ - Image cursors support has been added.
+ - The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.12
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.12?
+
+ - Fix WebKitSoupAuthDialog to only save passwords in gnome-keyring
+ (if enabled) when authentication succeeds.
+ - Implement a proper size_request method for WebKitWebView. The
+ widget will request the size of the whole page as its size
+ requisition.
+ - Many a11y improvements.
+ - The usual amount of other misc fixes.
+ - WEBKIT_DEBUG variable now accepts channel names in any case
+ again.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.11
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.11?
+
+ - WebKit has got a new feature - a XSS auditor, that should improve
+ security; this feature is still experimental, and disabled by
+ default, but applications can enable it using the setting.
+ - The hackish content sniffing code that was beig used to avoid
+ pages requesting downloads instead of displaying content has been
+ replaced by usage of a new Soup feature, which implements proper
+ content sniffing.
+ - More accessibility work, including fixes for problems which were
+ critical for a possible GNOME 2.28 release.
+ - Pasting rich text from other browsers should now work as expected.
+ - The usual amount of misc fixes.
+
+=================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.10
+=================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.10?
+
+ - WebKitNetworkRequest has now GObject properties for its URI and
+ the SoupMessage that backs it up.
+ - Fix AtkText methods get_selection and get_n_selections to not use
+ the global selection but only the selection that belongs to the
+ object being used.
+ - Fix a crasher when emitting the a11y signal 'text-caret-moved' in
+ some situations with debug builds.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.9
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.9?
+
+ - Scrolling once again received a lot of love, and many subtle
+ problems and bugs were killed, and we now get correct behavior in
+ acid2; a number of smaller improvements are in the queue.
+ - Accessibility keeps gaining better support. On this release a lot
+ of work was done on the AtkText interface implementation.
+ - WebKitNetworkRequest now carries with it all the information
+ regarding the request, not only the URI. This means you will no
+ longer miss headers such as Referer when passing NetworkRequest
+ objects from a callback to webkit_web_frame_load_request.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8?
+
+ - We found out that WebKitWebHistoryItems were being kept with a
+ reference count of 2 instead of 1 as they should; nobody should be
+ relying on that, but if you hit reference counting problems with
+ items you were creating yourself, this is for you.
+ - You can now copy images from the web page to the clipboard.
+ - Improvements were made to the Plugin handling code.
+ - Scroll events will now be correctly reported to web applications.
+ - You can now embed arbitrary widgets as if it was a plugin, with
+ the new "create-plugin-widget" signal.
+ - The atk_text_get_text_{at,after,before}_offset methods are now
+ implemented for all boundary types except LINE_AFTER and
+ LINE_BEFORE.
+ - The usual stream of minor fixes and improvements, as always.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.7
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.7?
+
+ - This release includes a security fix:
+ SVGList::insertItemBefore would not perform a bounds check on the
+ index it was provided, potentially leading to a buffer overflow.
+ - New frame loading properties supersede various load-* signals, and
+ are also accessible in the WebView, for convenience, making this
+ API saner.
+ - JIT is now supported for X86-64 on Linux, and enabled by default!
+ - A regression on webkit_web_view_load_string has been fixed, making
+ it work correctly again when the document uses encodings which may
+ use more than 1 byte per character.
+ - Yet more work has been done to the ATK support, caret browsing
+ support improvements in particular.
+ - Filenames suggested by the Download functionality now correctly
+ use the filename given by the host, if available.
+ - Build fixes for IA64, and AMD64
+ - gtk-doc support has also improved, and you should now be able to
+ cd WebKit/gtk/docs and type make docs, if you --enable-gtk-doc on
+ configure, as long as you build with srcdir == builddir.
+ - More crashes and other bugs fixed, and small improvements made
+ under the hood.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.6
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.6?
+
+ - Several ATK support additions and fixes got landed, with many
+ roles being now implemented, providing better accessibility.
+ - Caret browsing is now available.
+ - Spelling check has been implemented using Enchant; the API is
+ still lacking, and some of the functionality still needs to be
+ improved, though.
+ - Error reporting is now available, with default error pages, and
+ API that allows the application to override the default behavior;
+ localization of those pages is still not supported, but planned.
+ - More crashes and other bugs fixed.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.5
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.5?
+
+ - Added gtk-doc support to the build system. It is not fully
+ integrated yet, so some manual tweaking is still needed.
+ - Minimum required GTK+ version is now 2.10.
+ - Added l10n support with gettext. Translations are stored in
+ WebKit/gtk/po/.
+ - Many improvements to the ATK support. It's good enough to provide
+ a basic user experience with Accerciser now, but we'll keep
+ improving it in further releases.
+ - New printing API that allows applications to control and monitor
+ the printing process, when requested by javascript or started by
+ the user.
+ - Many bugfixes.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.4
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.4?
+
+ - WebKitWebView gained uri and title properties, deprecating the
+ usage of the title-changed signal.
+ - Basic functionality for HTML5 media tags has been achieved; there
+ are many unimplented methods, and rough edges still, though.
+ - Font rendering received quite some love, with layouting, and
+ memory handling fixes, and at least one less crash.
+ - A new signal, new-window-policy-decision-requested, has been added
+ to WebKitWebView, that makes it possible for the application to
+ correctly decide what to do when new windows are requested.
+ - A bug that made tooltips for consecutive links not update their
+ location was fixed.
+ - Several improvements were made to the HTTP backend, including
+ making it more robust when talking to servers which send bad
+ Content-Type headers.
+ - WebKitWebView now uses the GtkBinding system to handle key events,
+ which means that the user is now able to customize the keys used
+ for various operations, and that many subtle bugs have been fixed.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.3
+================
+
+The 1.1.3 release was just a quick bug fix release, because we made a
+mistake in library versioning.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.2
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.2?
+
+ - Added support for downloads: a new signal, 'download-requested',
+ will be emitted by WebKit when a dowload is requested. On top of
+ that, the download process has been encapsulated in a new object,
+ WebKitDownload, which allows the user to control it or to start
+ new downloads from the client side.
+ - Added webkit_web_view_get_encoding to get the automatic encoding
+ of the current page.
+ - Added GObject properties for 'encoding' and 'custom-encoding'.
+ - Added 'javascript-profiling-enabled' property to the WebInspector,
+ which allows to enable and disable the profiling functionality.
+ - Added API to create and add history items to WebKit's history.
+ - Improved debugging support with WEBKIT_DEBUG environment
+ variable. Most of the settings will only give useful output for
+ debug builds, but WEBKIT_DEBUG=Network will log all HTTP traffic
+ form libsoup to console. See WebCore/platform/gtk/LoggingGtk.cpp
+ for all the options available.
+ - Lots of bugfixes.
+
+================
+WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1
+================
+
+What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1?
+
+ - ABI compatibility with 1.0.3 was broken, so you will need to
+ recompile your application against 1.1.1
+ - Support for the CURL backend was dropped, libsoup is the only HTTP
+ backend now.
+ - webkit_get_default_session, to get the SoupSession used internally
+ by WebKit.
+ - 'create-web-view' signal, emitted when the creation of a new
+ window is requested.
+ - 'navigation-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted when a
+ navigation to another page is requested.
+ - 'mime-type-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted each time
+ WebKit is about to show a URI with a given MIME type.
+ - Support for the Web Inspector
+ (see http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/)
+ - HTTP authentication support, with optional gnome-keyring storage.
+ - New load functions: webkit_web_view_open, webkit_web_view_load_uri
+ and webkit_web_view_load_request. The old
+ webkit_web_view_load_string and webkit_web_view_load_html_string
+ are now deprecated.
+ - webkit_web_view_reload_bypass_cache
+ - webkit_web_view_{get,set}_custom_encoding, to override the
+ encoding of the current page.
+ - Improved stability and lots of bugfixes.
+