These Weeks In Servo 115

In the past three weeks, we merged 181 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

Our Windows nightlies have been broken for several months for a number of reasons, and we have now fixed all of the known breakage. If you’re a Windows user, give our latest builds a try! You can visit arbitrary URLs by pressing Ctr+L.

The Android Components project added a component to use Servo in any Android app.

We have a branch that allows Servo to build and run on Magic Leap devices:

Planning and Status

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

This week’s status updates are here.

Exciting Work in Progress

• paulrouget is integrating Servo into Firefox Reality.
• pyfisch is rewriting keyboard input to better reflect the web’s input model.
• gterzian is creating a hang reporter that will provide better insight when Servo is performing poorly.
• eijebong is updating hyper from 0.10 to 0.12, enabling Servo to make use of async I/O in the future

Notable Additions

• ceyusa implemented support for <video> and <audio> element playback.
• pyfisch extended our border image implementation to support thickness and gradients.
• ferjm made some WebAudio nodes match the specification a bit better.
• pyfisch and jdm updated the version of WebRender in use.
• ferjm enabled the Android backend for media playback.
• SimonSapin redesigned the Taskcluster CI setup.
• jdm corrected the flickering of WebGL content on Android builds.
• codehag updated several parts of the devtools implmentation to work with modern versions of Firefox.
• jdm made stdout redirect to Android’s logcat by default.
• ferjm hardened the media backend against errors.
• jdm made it easier to debug JS exceptions and WebGL errors.
• nox reduced the unnecessary duplication of work performed by the putImageData API.
• paulrouget harded the JNI integration layer.
• nox consolidated the various byte-swapping and premultiplication operations.
• ferjm made it possible to reuse AudioBuffer objects.
• jdm fixed some graphical glitches on Oculus Go devices that affected images without alpha channels.
• emilio improved the CSS animation and transitions implementation.
• jdm prevented reloading a page from hiding all previously loaded images.

New Contributors

• Derek Guenther
• Martin Stransky
• Ryan Hunt
• Sebastian Kaspari
• Simon Pieters
• Víctor Manuel Jáquez Leal
• codehag
• sumit0190

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