WebKitGTK

WebKitGTK+ 2.6.0 released!

This is the first stable release in the 2.6 series.

WebKit1 API has been removed.
Switch to CMake build system.
Binary version bump to make WebKit1 and WebKit2 parallel installable.
Several API changes.
The DOM bindings API has been split into stable and unstable parts.
Support for browser plugins using GTK+3, leaving the GTK+2 dependency optional for building a plugin process with support for GTK+2 plugins.
HighDPI support for non-accelerated compositing contents.
Dynamic user agent string depending on the site.
User scripts API.

For more details about all the changes included in WebKitGTK+ 2.6 see the NEWS file that is included in the tarball.

For more information about the API changes see:

For more information about the GTK+3 plugins see:

Thanks to all the contributors who made possible this release.

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