WPE WebKit

EXTRA, EXTRA! 🗞️ For this new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition, number 82, we have a mixed bag of updates: a libsoup release, improvements to subprocess spawning, deprecation of the libwpe-based APIs, and the usual trickle of work on the new SVG engine. Check it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Sometimes we post about a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition early in the week, sometimes later on; but there's always something juicy to read about. Go check number 82 today! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Some weeks see more activity reported, and some others less; but nevertheless a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition is always welcome! Here's number 81, which is mostly about fixes that bring incremental improvements nevertheless: 📜: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Looking forward to presenting the new WPEPlatform API at the #OSSummit, and showing how simple it is to write a #WPE launcher and migrate existing ones. I'll also try to do a live demo, so it might even be "fun" 😅. Feel free to join at 15:50 in South Hall 3 B! osselceu2026.sched.com/event/07a743...

Today at 15:50 CEST, our very own @mariospr.bsky.social presents a WPE 2.54 milestone: the new WPEPlatform API, now stable and the recommended way to use WPE in embedded products. Join us for a quick intro plus tips on building or migrating your apps to the new design! #OSSummit #EmbeddedLinux #WPE

We’ve had a great first day and many great conversations at Open Source Summit Europe! Make sure to stop by our table (2nd floor, booth 4) at any point during the conference to say hi and talk about OSS, our projects and work, or anything else. #OSSEU #OpenSourceSummitEU #OpenSource

Did anybody think that we would not have a #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition this week? Well, look behind you, we have made it to number 80! 🎉 This one comes with updates to the layer-based SVG engine, better filters, enabling a new WebCrypto backend, and more: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Claudio has published a new article in the WPE WebKit's website, providing a deep dive into WPE Platform and how it brings a much better (and simpler!) experience vs the now deprecated legacy libWPE API. Make sure you don't miss it! wpewebkit.org/blog/2026-10...

Álex is back this week, this time writing about WPE Skia's Deferred Display Lists. In his post, he explains how running WPE on Android allowed us to spot issues and improve the rendering architecture in WPE. Read it all at blogs.igalia.com/alex/2026/10...

Today we are highlighting Nikolas Zimmermann's blog post about bringing damage to WPE WebKit & WebKitGTK's new Skia compositor. This feature allows us to track which regions of the page view have changed since previous frames, avoiding unnecessary repaints. Check it out!

Our colleague Carlos has written about the recent changes that brought Skia-based compositing to WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK 2.54: among other things, we perform >30% better in the benchmarks we run, compared to the results TextureMapper previously achieved. More at blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/202...

Riding on the wave of the 2.54 release series, comes #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment number 78! 🏄 — blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... While stable and blog posts about it are good to have, development continues with more graphics work, and fixes for Sysprof mark collection 🛠️

The WebKit team at @igalia.com is happy to announce WPE WebKit 2.54! Read what's new in this release cycle in wpewebkit.org/blog/2026-09...

While waiting for the next stable release series, why not reading a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment? Number 77 comes with more graphics-related work, and a new article about running @wpewebkit.org on the Raspberry Pi with the new WPEPlatform API. 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Another week goes by, and installment 76 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is up! This one focused on ironing out graphics issues in preparation for the upcoming 2.54.x release series. Did we say release? There was another set of packaged release candidates, too! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

It's time again for #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals! #WIP issue 75 is out: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... The team has been moving full steam ahead with the Layer-Based SVG Engine, and graphics improvements; but we also had other news such as SDK updates, a new WebsitePolicies API, and more.

New #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition packed with graphics, multimedia, and tooling updates. Which sure has something to do with release candidates being published for 2.54.x. Also, do not miss the new stable release being published with fixes for security issues! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Following an extra packed periodical, this week we get back to a more regular pace with two nice bugfixes, and a new tool to analyze WebKit performance on Linux! #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals issue #73 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

In this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals: improvements to both the new Skia-based compositor and a fix for the classic TextureMapper one, blog posts on the new SVG engine and WPE's new API, and other assorted improvements. Read it while it's hot out of the presses: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... 📯

My colleague Loïc Le Page just published a blog post on migrating to the new WPE Platform API for devices with various I/O backends. blogs.igalia.com/llepage/the-... #WPEWebKit @igalia.com

It's time for another #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals post! The summer continues with many updates to the new SVG engine (LBSE), improvements to the new Skia-based compositor, some small API additions, and ever-important stable releases with security fixes. 👉 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Happy to have WPE teaming up with Wind River Linux to provide a rock-solid platform for Web-based products!

This week the @webengineshackfest.org is in full force, and it included a WPE track for the first time! The amount of patches has gone done a bit as a result. Nevertherless there has been work on Close Watchers, moveBefore, and input methods ⌨️ Check them out at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Day 2 of the Web Engines Hackfest wrapped up with the first-ever WPE track! 🎉 Recordings are coming in the next few days, but in the meantime you can already browse the slides in the @webengineshackfest.org 's issue tracker: github.com/Igalia/weben... Day 3 is about to begin. Stay tuned!

The WPE track at the @webengineshackfest.org is ongoing already! You can check the schedule and join remotely from github.com/Igalia/weben...

Another week, another great #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition: new compositor improvements, a blog post about finding memory leaks, multimedia fixes, and more. 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

This week there have been new development and stable releases. The latter including security fixes—go and update now! But there's more in this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment: work on Web platform features, spell checking for the WPE port, and more! 📜 blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

For this week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment we have a neat collection of news: `dialog.requestClose()` improvements, rendering fixes, improvements to the container SDK, and the new Skia-based compositor getting enabled by default. Read it all at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... 📜

This year we have something new: a dedicated track for @wpewebkit.org happening on Tuesday June 16th. We already have some sessions lined up, but new proposals are welcome. webengineshackfest.org#wpe-track

Some news about the Web Engines Hackfest 2026. We have over 120 people registered, it's going to be a great event! 🎉 You are still in time to register for onsite participation at webengineshackfest.org

I'll be speaking at Open Source Summit NA in Minneapolis next Monday with my talk "Engineering Quality in a Fast-Moving Open Source Project: WPE WebKit". Feel free to DM me to meet up if you're around! Details: osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQqg #WPEWebKit #OSSummit #OpenSource /cc @wpewebkit.org

As the development cycle continues, more unstable releases hit the shelves, along with juicer updates... and one more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment, making it to number 64 → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

Did we say weekly? Well, not quite, but a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is now live: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This one covers three weeks, and features really many releases, tricky threading tuning, Web APIs work, and more.

One more week, one more #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals edition. Number 62 includes notes on support for iOS dialog light dismiss, a new API to obtain page icons, WebKit nightly builds for Epiphany Canary produced by GNOME GitLab, and multimedia improvements. blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

A new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals entry appears... → blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This week comes with a mixed bag of new features, incremental improvements, and a new release with the ever important security issue fixes. Also: more blog posts!

The WebKit team at @igalia.com is happy to announce WPE WebKit 2.52! Read what's new in this release cycle in wpewebkit.org/blog/2026-03...

WebXR on WPE WebKit is here! Igalia’s Sergio Villar breaks down the architecture, OpenXR backend, hand input, AR modes, and the road ahead. blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post...

Busy and great first day at the #igalia booth yesterday, with lots of visitors and interesting discussions about our projects and demos. We also got some great feedback on @wpewebkit.org from some of our happy users who are already trying out the next version. Come and visit us at booth 4-443! #ew26

Some pictures from Marga's talk yesterday, on using best practices when working with yocto to build embedded systems. Nice talk and nice discussion afterward during the Q&A panel. #igalia #ew26

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals covers a handful of news: rumble support for gamepads, configurable video decoding limits, a text rendering tweak, and one more release candidate for @wpewebkit.org and @webkitgtk.org Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

On my way to Nuremberg for the Embedded World Conference. I'll present a talk "Web Engines for Embedded Devices: An Introduction to WPE WebKit" on Thursday, and I will also be around in our booth at 4-443 with some cool demos to show. Feel free to come around and say hi! #wpe #webkit #igalia #ew26

This week's #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals covers added support for vendor-specific hardware media codecs, using texture atlases to image uploads together, and one more release candidate published for @webkitgtk.org and @wpewebkit.org 📜 Read it at blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/...

We've been quiet, but here's a new #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals installment: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... In this week we multimedia work, a fix for a rendering regression, and a fix for a font selection issue. Also notable we had a new WPE Android release, and the libsoup 3.6.6 release.