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/... 📯

Our colleague Nikolas Zimmermann has a two-part series on our work bringing SVG onto the same rendering machinery as HTML/CSS in WebKit: the Layer-Based SVG Engine (LBSE). Part 1, on reducing layer overhead by creating RenderLayers only when needed: blogs.igalia.com/nzimmermann/...

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!

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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!

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Logistics Date & Time: Tuesday 16th June at 10:00 CEST (local time) URL: https://meet.jit.si/WEH2026-wpe-track Notes: https://hackmd.io/@rego/WEH2026-wpe-track/edit Room: HTML Room (rooms 9 + 10) F...

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

Less than a week to go before the Web Engines Hackfest (@webengineshackfest.org) kicks off! This year the event features a dedicated WPE track on Tuesday, June 16th, with talks about embedding and integration, graphics, performance, QA and more! webengineshackfest.org#wpe-track #WPE

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Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on spe...

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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

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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/...

Join us at the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis next week, where @mariospr.bsky.social will be presenting a talk about WPE WebKit #WebKit #WPE #OSSummit #EmbeddedLinux

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...

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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...

Implementing WebXR in WebKit for WPE

Since 2022, my main focus has been working on the Wolvic browser, still the only open source WebXR-capable browser for Android/AOSP devices (Meta, Pico, Huawei, Lenovo, Lynx, HTC…) out there. That’s a...

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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

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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.

New week, new WIP! Number 56 of #WebKitIgaliaPeriodicals is live: blogs.igalia.com/webkit/blog/... This week: @fosdem.org had presentations about WebKit; we got new stable and development releases, asynchronous scrolling work, OpenGL logging, cleanups, and improving the inspector for the WPE work.