This Week In Servo 57

In the last week, we landed 108 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

We are pleased to announce that Bobby Holley (bholley), a long-time Gecko hacker, has become a reviewer! He will primarily be reviewing patches in the style system, especially those related to Gecko integration.

Notable Additions

• uk992 fixed a PATH-related issue that was vexing many Windows Servo users
• mbrubeck repaired the regression around failing to repaint when image loads completed
• larsberg updated Cargo, moved Servo off of hack scripts to instead use RUSTFLAGS and turned on hardfloat on ARM Android
• ajeffrey added a chaos mode to our pipelines, in order to test constellation resilience against randomly failing iframes
• sagar et al. implemented the initial pieces of form validation
• edunham started the work to make AArch64 not use the gold linker
• aneesh dramatically refactored the Android Salt builder rules
• manish added support for navigation keys
• pcwalton sped up display list transfer
• shinglyu implemented XMLHttpRequest.responseURL
• nox updated the Firefox developer tools integration to accommodate recent Firefox changes
• DDEFISHER et al. implemented the backend for an HTTP authentication cache
• ConnorGBrewstew corrected an issue with rendering after scrolling via named anchors
• pkondzior improved the memory reporting coverage of layout threads
• stspyder made the Blob constructor compatible with the File API specification
• schuster implemented missing parts of the HTMLAnchorElement interface

New Contributors

• Awal Garg
• Connor Brewster
• Jussi Räsänen
• Matthias Krüger
• Liam
• Per Lundberg
• Stjepan Glavina
• Emily Dunham
• Anthony

Get Involved

Interested in helping build a web browser? Take a look at our curated list of issues that are good for new contributors!

Screenshot

None this week.

Meetings

Last week, we discussed temporarily dropping GLES 2.0 support in WebRender, using Webrender as the default, and automating failure/intermittent reporting.