Servo Report for Week 30 - Implemented text-decoration-thickness improving CSS text decoration fidelity - Implemented Animation.effect, AnimationEffect.getTiming(), getComputedTiming(), and updateTiming() making significant progress on the Web Animations API

June in Servo… 🫴👷‍♀️ SharedWorker now stable 🎨🛠️ more powerful ‘attr()’ and ‘calc()’ 📏📐 new @‌media query features 🏜️🥾 real world compat improvements 🙏📰 `@‌servo-highfive monthly update` servo.org/blog/2026/07...

Servo Report for Week 29 - Implemented font-language-override which supports correct language-specific glyph shaping for multilingual text - Implemented font-variant-alternates and @font-feature-values, unlocking stylistic alternates, swashes, and ornaments via OpenType

Servo now passes 100% of WPT tests for the WebCrypto API, all 73,292 subtests, covering 25 cryptographic algorithms 🎉 A complete, spec-correct cryptography implementation in an independent Rust-powered browser engine is a big milestone!

Servo Report for Week 28 - Implement deriveBits and generateKey operations of X448 - Add support for font in <text> in svg - Add support for box-decoration-break - Add ability to incrementally update accessibility tree based on DOM changes

Servo Report for Week 27 - Continued adding Ed448 support to WebCrypto API implementation - Aligned <label> element with specification - Fixed <select> element issue where the value specified via Javascript wasn't applied - Upgrade Stylo version implementing the height & orientation media features.

Servo Report for Week 26 Highlights from the week: - Add aspect-ratio feature to stylo - Continued work switching to Compose UI in Android app module - Enable device-width/device-height media queries - Add support for devtools inspector to copy as inner/outer html

May in Servo… 🐢🎬 better compat with mp4 files ☢️🏥 Sanitizer now experimental 🎨📝 more on execCommand() 🙈📜 “Ignore source” in DevTools ⏩🪾 faster DOM and layout servo.org/blog/2026/06...

Servo Report for Week 25 Highlights from last week: - Add support for CSS gradient color interpolation method - Implemented pointer and hover media features - Enabled loading of servo: URLs from command line and location bar in servoshell - Enabled SharedWorker support

Welcome our new Outreachy intern, Niya! 🎉 She's published her first blog post, sharing her motivation for joining the Servo project and what she's been working on: text.tchncs.de/niya/beginni...

Beginning and Motivation of a Servo Intern in Outreachy

I am Niya (she/her). I am a programmer and a FOSS enthusiast. Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust. I find Servo exciting, I t...

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Servo Report for Week 24 Highlights from last week: - Added a horizontal scroll area for tabs in servoshell - Began implementation of Web Animation API - Continued migrating the Android app from Java to Kotlin. - Implement basic form of copyExternalImageToTexture in WebGPU API

Thank you everyone who joined the Servo sessions at @webengineshackfest.org this year. See you next year!

Servo Report for Week 23 Highlights from last week: - Added support in servoshell for dragging files on the window to open them - Implemented the pointer capture API - Fix selection of options in multiple select - Implemented loop count for animated image

Next week at @webengineshackfest.org is a great time to find out more about Servo! There will be a number of project contributors attending and 3 different breakout sessions on various aspects of Servo. You can tune in remotely if not attending in person. webengineshackfest.org#breakout-ses...

2026 Web Engines Hackfest

Web Platform community event for people working on the different engines (Chromium/Blink/V8, Safari/WebKit/JSC, Firefox/Gecko/SpiderMonkey, Servo, Ladybird), on the testing side (WPT, Test262), on spe...

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Servo Report for Week 22 2026 - Implement font-variant-position & font-feature-settings - Make Blob.stream() supports readable byte streams - Implement Window.screenLeft and Window.screenTop - Support event handler content attributes on SVG elements - Continued work on DevTools & accessibility

🔦 #rustconf 2026 Speaker Spotlight "Servo Devtools: Where Rust Meets JavaScript" by Rakhi Sharma (Engineer at Igalia) ➡️ On the schedule: rustconf2026.sched.com/event/2KHtq 🎟️ Book before prices rise: bit.ly/4u55YAD #rustconf26 #rustlang

We are glad to announce that Julius Tens is a Servo bronze sponsor, thanks for your support! servo.org#sponsors

April in Servo… 📱🤖 revamped Android UI ☢️🗃️ IndexedDB now experimental 🌏✍️ better CJK text support ⏩🪾 faster DOM tree mutations 🔬🪆 Scopes panel in DevTools servo.org/blog/2026/05...

Highlights from last week: - Implement setHTML() - Support font-variant-east-asian - Add ontransitionstart event handler - Progress on IndexedDB and SharedWorker - More work on accessibility and performance

Highlights from last week: - Support font-variant-ligatures and font-variant-numeric - Implement Document.parseHTML() - Layout performance improvements - More work on accessibility and DevTools

RustWeek 2026 is happening in Utrecht, Netherlands, this week. Several Servo maintainers and TSC members are attending the event. Today is Day 2 of RustWeek, and Josh Bowman-Matthews is speaking about “Tracking Down Undefined Behaviour in Servo.” Make sure to catch the talk if you are there.

If you are attending RustWeek, don't miss Josh Bowman-Matthews' talk "Tracking down undefined behaviour in Servo" on Wednesday at 16:20 CEST. Several Servo contributors will be there too, come say hi! 👋 @rustnl.bsky.social

** Speaker announcement ** Catch Josh Bowman-Matthews' talk 'Tracking down undefined behaviour in Servo' at RustWeek 2026! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/josh/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! #rustweek2026 #rustlang

Highlights from last week: - Add support for focus navigation scopes - Improve API for DiagnosticsLogging configuration - Reuse shaping results between box tree layouts - More progress on accessibilty and DevTools

I’ll be giving a lightning talk about @servo.org

Zed@zed.dev · 3mo ago

Rust friends in the Bay, come hang with us on May 20th! 🦀 We're co-hosting the Bay Area Rust meetup at the Root VC office with talks from Servo, Atuin, and Zed. Link in comments to RSVP.

Highlights from last week: - Implement Style Editor tab in DevTools - Enable sequential focus navigation - Use client storage in IndexedDB - More contenteditable commands: backColor, foreColor, subscript, superscript - Continue progress on Accessibility and Sanitizer API

March in Servo… ➡️⌨️ tab and accesskey navigation 🔬🐞 see live values in the debugger 📝✅ better carets and form fields 📜📦 JS modules in web workers 😈🔱 Servo now runs on FreeBSD! servo.org/blog/2026/04...

Highlights from last week: - Improve SVG rendering - Initial implementation of the "focus update steps" - Implement StorageManager API - Support underline, strikethrough, italic, bold and fontname commands for contenteditable - More work on a11y, DevTools, Sanitizer API

Highlights from last week: - IndexedDB is now an experimental feature - Performance: Reuse abspos fragments when they didn't change - Add initial implementation of underline command - Implement Screen Wake Lock API - Progress on accessibility, DevTools, IntersectionObserver and Sanitizer API

Servo on Android just got a big refresh: - Material 3 design - A dedicated tablet layout - A new browsing history view github.com/servo/servo/...