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[Bug 2126553] Re: Update webkit2gtk to version 2.50.0

 

Just FYI, I came to this bug because during upgrade from 25.04 to 25.10,
I got this message:

===

Attualmente sono installati i seguenti pacchetti non ufficiali:

gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1Installed from: origine sconosciuta 
gir1.2-webkit2-4.1.......Installed from: origine sconosciuta 
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0Installed from: origine sconosciuta 
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0......Installed from: origine sconosciuta 

Si consiglia di installare le versioni supportate dall'archivio 
Ubuntu e riprovare l'aggiornamento. 

===

which translated says that those packages are from non official sources.
Indeed it looks like they are not from questing but the older versions
from plucky.

As I said, this is because the version in questing 2.48.6-... is lower
than the version in plucky 2.48.7-...

So, what @ahasenack wrote:
 - apply the security fix for questing's 2.48.6-1ubuntu2 and release it into questing-security
won't fix the issue I noticed, as the questing version should be greater than the version in plucky.

Note that on top of this the 2.48.7-... plucky version which remained
installed after the upgrade to questing, is also built with a different
libxml2 soname, and this is another problem.

So, make sure you end up with a questing version greater than the latest
version in plucky.

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Title:
  Update webkit2gtk to version 2.50.0

Status in webkit2gtk package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Impact
  ------
  New webkit2gtk releases usually include security fixes and are therefore handled similar to how new Firefox releases are handled. It would be helpful to get this built now for 25.10 before Final Freeze. Otherwise, it will just get updated later.

  This is the first release in the stable 2.50.x series and includes
  several other bug fixes also.

  https://webkitgtk.org/2025/09/17/webkitgtk2.50.0-released.html

  ================
  WebKitGTK 2.50.0
  ================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.50.0?

    - Fix rendering with software rasterization enabled.
    - Fix WebAudio issues after idling for a minute.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  =================
  WebKitGTK 2.49.90
  =================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.49.90?

    - Add support for font collection / fragment identifiers.
    - Fix web process deadlock on exit.
    - Fix stuttering when playing WebP animations
    - Fix CSS animations with cubic-bezier timing function.
    - Do not start the MemoryPressureMonitor if it's disabled
    - Translation updates: Polish, Slovenian.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  ================
  WebKitGTK 2.49.4
  ================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.49.4?

    - Enable CSS property font-variant-emoji is now enabled by default.
    - Improve emoji font selection.
    - Add SVT-AV1 encoder support to media backend.
    - Show device scale factor in webkit://gpu.
    - Fix font rendering of composed characters with certain fonts.
    - Fix handling of font synthesis properties (bold/italic).
    - Fix documentation of WebKitDeviceInfoPermissionRequest.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  ================
  WebKitGTK 2.49.3
  ================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.49.3?

    - Add new API to get the theme color of a WebKitWebView.
    - Fix rendering with GTK 3.
    - Notify automation session on abnormal disconnections.
    - Fix a crash by ensuring SkiaRecordingResult is destroyed on the main thread.
    - Fix build on s390x.
    - Fix the build with GTK 3.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  ================
  WebKitGTK 2.49.2
  ================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.49.2?

    - Enable damage propagation to the UI process by default.
    - Pass available input devices from UI process to web process for Interaction Media Features.
    - Always have a fallback when domain does not have known base.
    - Fix URL after HSTS upgrade in case of redirection.
    - Fix rendering when device scale factor change comes before the web view geometry update.
    - Ensure web view is focused on tap gesture.
    - Fix a crash when setting WEBKIT_SKIA_GPU_PAINTING_THREADS=0.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
    - Translation updates: Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish.

  ================
  WebKitGTK 2.49.1
  ================

  What's new in WebKitGTK 2.49.1?

    - Change threaded rendering implementation to use Skia API instead of WebCore display
      list that is not thread safe. This also allowed to improve performance by recording
      layers once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
    - Added hybrid rendering mode that tries to use the GPU worker threads, but if they
      are all busy the CPU worker threads are used if possible.
    - Add volume locking support to media player.
    - Add support for tracing counters with Sysprof.
    - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  Other Info
  ----------
  The last time we built this package, it took 5.7 days to do the riscv64 build.

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.48.6-1ubuntu2/+build/31299886

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