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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!
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.
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!
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.
