This Week In Servo 4

In the last week, we landed 54 PRs.

Notable additions

• Keegan updated the version of Rust we use, bringing us to 4d2af38611cdeeb804659b5e0695ad2c251db51a
• Chris implemented TreeWalker, finishing up the Traversal parts of the DOM spec
• Cameron partially removed instances of the redundant &JSRef (JSRef itself is a smart pointer)
• Manish added a lint that guards against usage of unrooted JS-managed values on the stack. This augments the memory safety the type system provides as explained here
• Simon added support for relative font-size
• Glenn added support for min-width and max-width in images
• Patrick fixed handling of generated display:block content
• Josh integrated remote Firefox developer tool support.

New contributors

• Andreas Tolfsen
• Prasoon Shukla
• Jeongeun Kim

Meeting

Stuff discussed in the meeting:

• Build infra changes: We will be moving back from Travis to bors. (At the time of writing, this change has already happened)
• HTTP library: hyper looks promising. A list of our requirements for an HTTP library can be found here
• Adapting to the removal of libgreen
• html5ever is ready for review.
• Cargo issues were discussed. Cargo no longer hides output from dependencies, which is great!
• The removal of &JSRef was discussed. It would be nice if methods could be defined with JSRef<self> (or any other smart pointers).