The Internationalization Working Group has updated the Candidate Recommendation of Encoding. For new protocols and formats, as well as existing formats deployed in new contexts, this specification requires the utf-8 encoding. It also defines a limited set of other legacy encodings so that user agents can convert to and from utf-8 in a standardized and therefore interoperable way.

The Geolocation Working Group has published a W3C Edited Recommendation of Geolocation API Specification 2nd Edition. This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device. The Edited Recommendation incorporates changes made against the 2013 Recommendation that resolve all the errata.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Content Security Policy Level 2. This document defines a policy language used to declare a set of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the policy is enforced. Comments are welcome through 9 December 2016.