Update to 2.8 and new 4.0 webkit API. From Leonardo Taccari in pkgsrc-wip.

2.8.1

What’s new in the WebKitGTK+ 2.8.1 release?

    Handle keep-alive connections in GStreamer HTTP source element.
    Fix a crash in DOMObjectCache when a wrapped object owned by the cache is unreffed by the user.
    Fix rendering of drag and drop icon.
    Fix the build with REDIRECTED_XCOMPOSITE_WINDOW disabled in X11 platform.
    Fix the build with Wayland target enabled.
    Fix the build for HPPA.


2.8

Highlights of the WebKitGTK+ 2.8.0 release

    Initial gestures support.
    HTML5 notifications.
    User script messages.
    HTML5 color input.
    APNG support.
    Performance improvements.
    Playing audio notification signal.
    Web view background colors.

and lots of changes in the 2.6 series; major changes in 2.6 were:

Highlights of the WebKitGTK+ 2.6.0 release

    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.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/www/webkit-gtk/DESCR b/www/webkit-gtk/DESCR
index 77db505d006..8f5106660f5 100644
--- a/www/webkit-gtk/DESCR
+++ b/www/webkit-gtk/DESCR
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML
 and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries
 from KDE.
 
-This is the GTK2+ port of the engine.
+This is the GTK port of the engine.