This Week In Servo 109

2018-03-26 What's up with Servo for the weeks of 19 March 2018 - 26 March 2018

In the last week, we merged 94 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

We also got Servo running under the hood of Firefox Focus on Android as a proof of concept. More details on that soon!

Planning and Status

Our roadmap is available online, including the overall plans for 2018.

This week’s status updates are here.

Notable Additions

  • nical fixed an issue with disappearing 2d transforms in WebRender.
  • christianpoveda implemented the typed array-based send API for WebSockets.
  • nox implemented the WebGL getAttachedShaders API.
  • kwonoj added support for retrieving typed arrays from Fetch bodies.
  • nox added support for obtaining data URLs from WebGL canvases.
  • Xanewok removed a source of unsafety from the JS handle APIs.
  • Xanewok replaced hand-written typed array support in WebGL APIs with automatically generated code.
  • jdm worked around a frequent OOM crash on Android.
  • glennw made automatic mipmap generation for WebRender images opt-in.
  • glennw simplified various parts of the WebRender pipeline for line decorations.
  • christianpoveda added support for typed arrays as blob sources.
  • alexrs made the command parsing portion of homu testable.
  • lsalzman reduced the amount of memory that is consumed by glyph caches in WebRender.
  • glennw made text shadows draw in screen space in WebRender.
  • jdm increased the configurability of homu’s list of repositories.
  • Moggers exposed the WebRender debugger through a cargo feature for downstream projects.
  • gootorov implemented the getFrameBufferAttachmentParameter WebGL API.
  • paulrouget redesigned the way that Servo’s embedding APIs are structured.
  • nakul02 added time spent waiting on synchronous recv() operations to Servo’s profiler.

New Contributors

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