This Week In Servo 117

2018-10-29 What's up with Servo for the weeks of 22 October 2018 - 29 October 2018

In the past week, we merged 49 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.

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

This week’s status updates are here.

jdm and manishearth are exploring gstreamer’s WebRTC support for inclusion in the media backend
ajeffrey is extending the Magic Leap support to make the browser application usable.
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.

cybai implemented the unhandledrejection event for unhandled Promise rejections.
pyfisch made the display list building code easier to understand.
ferjm added seeking support to the media implementation.
ajeffrey ported Servo to the Magic Leap headset.
cybai fixed a crash that could occur when closing Servo.
ferjm made the Android application open external URLs correctly.
pyfisch improved the efficiency of building display lists.

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