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Iain Lane (laney) wrote : [SRU] New stable release 2.40.1

[ Description ]

We should track the stable releases of webkitgtk to get upstream bug fixes

What’s new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.4.1 release?

    Add CORS support for media elements to GStreamer media backend.
    Fix wrong flags used in fcntl call that failed in FreeBSD.
    Correctly handle HTTP authentication for cross-origin requests.
    Correctly handle cookies for cross-origin requests.
    Fix a crash in the plugin process with some plugins that redefine NPN functions.
    Fix acceletared video when the video format has an alpha component.
    Fix sites using geolocation after reloading when using Geoclue2.
    Append Safari version to UserAgent to fix redirections in www.globalforestwatch.org.

[ Development release ]

Identical (modulo changelog) package uploaded to U already.

[ QA ]

Test many reverse dependencies and verify they still work as before.

[ Regression Potential ]

One of the upstream fixes could introduce a bug. I'll be subscribed to the package so hopefully will notice.