Re: webkitgtk6.0 soname bump season
On Thu, Feb 23 2023 at 03:13:28 PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro
<mcatanzaro(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Quick update here. We are approaching the end of soname bump season!
\o/ There will be one or (less likely) two additional soname bumps
within the next three weeks, and then when WebKitGTK 2.40.0 is
released alongside GNOME 44 the soname bumps will stop and the GTK 4
API will be stable.
I've just now pushed the final soname bump to rawhide. It will be
hitting F38 real soon now. The webkitgtk-6.0 API (WebKitGTK for GTK 4)
is now stable and safe to start depending on.
I'll be updating F37 as well in roughly one week from now, after
WebKitGTK 2.40.0 is released. It's unusual to push an incompatible
update to a stable Fedora, but remember (a) it affects very few GTK 4
applications, and (b) I'll handle the rebuilds, and (c) it's the same
source package as WebKitGTK for GTK 3, so we really have to update or
the widely-used GTK 3 version will stop receiving security fixes. In my
opinion, the risk caused by the API transition for GTK 4 is lower than
the usual risk caused by updating to a new major release of WebKitGTK
every six months anyway.
Michael