WebKitGTK 2.51.3 is available for download at: https://webkitgtk.org/releases/webkitgtk-2.51.3.tar.xz (61.6MB) md5sum: cd431b9764ca9f061ff05d1c9c5bd929 sha1sum: 878fe8b3b75b8bc9888d8a39abb11410976792f9 sha256sum: fdf6767ebcbb88b5c36f687529ac5a138f9cd9d290f54f1d2416efbbbd31fbca
This is a development release leading toward 2.52 series.
What's new in the WebKitGTK 2.51.3 release?
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- Improve composition scheduling to avoid blocking waiting for tile painting.
- Enable Pointer Events for touch input.
- Building with Enchant 1.x is no longer supported, Enchant 2.x is now always
used for spell checking.
- Moved WebRTC network access to the NetworkProcess, when using GstWebRTC.
This requires librice, and building with the CMake USE_LIBRICE option. When
enabled, it is still possible to choose the older libnice-based
implementation
at runtime by setting WEBKIT_GST_DISABLE_WEBRTC_NETWORK_SANDBOX=1 in the
environment.
- Add support the XR_ANDROID_raycast OpenXR extension for WebXR Hit Testing.
- Add support to use super-tiled graphics buffers when running on Vivante
GPUs.
Currently setting WEBKIT_SKIA_USE_VIVANTE_SUPER_TILED_TILE_TEXTURES=1 in the
environment is needed to opt-in into using those.
- Ensure that GStreamer is properly initialized before applying any multimedia
handling quirks.
- Fix PointerEvent behaviour for mouse events synthesized from touch inputs.
- Fix drag-and-drop when dropping folders from a file manager into a web view.
- Fix seeking and looping of media elements that set the "loop" property.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
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,
December 09, 2025
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