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New blog post: IPC multiplexing prototype goes public

@servo I'd still like an update on the decisions about using AI in code submissions. Can someone respond to that please?

#AI #servo

🎉 Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs • Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-May-2025-Animated-GIFs

#servo #gif #opensource

(Linux news in original post)

FOSS NEWS

Mozilla discontinues Fakespot Deep Fake Detector:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/mozilla-deepfake-ai-detector-closing-down

Organic Maps gets option to save planned routes and other improvements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/organic-maps-adds-planned-route-saving-recording-track-information-and-new-map-objects/

CoMaps 2025.06.10 is now available on F-Droid with new UI and updated maps:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/comaps-android-2025-06-10-now-on-f-ddroid-with-new-ui-and-updated-maps/

Proton Mail and Calendar gets option for adding notes when replying to event invitations:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/proton-mail-and-calendar-introduce-notes-for-event-invitations/

ONLYOFFICE 9.0 released with new themes, redesigned start screen, new Diagram Viewer tool, new supported formats (Markdown, OpenDocument Graphics, Excel binary workbook files) etc.:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/onlyoffice-9-0-desktop-new-features-ai

Immich 1.135 released with iOS home screen widgets, Google Cast support and album descriptions in mobile apps, opt-in Google Cast integration and new onboarding flow on web, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/immich-1-135-released-with-ios-widgets-google-cast-support-new-onboarding-flow-and-more/

ReactOS gets better support for fullscreen programs:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Fullscreen-Apps

Calibre 8.5 released with improved Kobo driver, new button in the Manage Data Files dialog to cancel remaining e-books when managing multiple ones, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-5-open-source-e-book-manager-improves-the-kobo-driver

Zed gets new multi-language debugger tool, supporting Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript and C/C++:
https://news.itsfoss.com/zed-debugger-support/

Git 2.50 released with multi-pack reachability, improved multiple cruft packs, ORT merge engine, etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/git-2-50-adds-multi-pack-reachability-improved-multiple-cruft-packs-and-ort-merge-engine/

Servo gets animated GIF support, support for SVG images via HTML "img" tag, input type="color" support, better layout and CSS support, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-May-2025-Animated-GIFs

Zen Browser 1.13b released with spaces for tabs instead of workspaces, updated Firefox base, Google Safe Browsing support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/zen-browser-1-13b-introduces-spaces-for-tabs-and-various-fixes-and-updates/

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #Mozilla #Fakespot #OrganicMaps #CoMaps #Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonCalendar #ONLYOFFICE #Immich #ReactOS #Calibre #Zed #Git #Servo #ZenBrowser #WebBrowser #Browser #Development #Dev #Programming #Coding #OfficeSuite #Maps #OperatingSystem #OS #EbookReader #CodeEditor #WebEngine #BrowserEngine #VersionControl #Ebook #FosseryTech

This month in Servo: color inputs, SVG, embedder JS, and more!

https://programming.dev/post/32439779

@gemlog @mpjgregoire To add in a fresh review by my entirely subjective personal marking scheme, I can say that #Servo fails pretty horribly:

〰️ Theme is ugly as sin, DPI scaling ignored, but it does actually use my window borders, so petulantly I'm giving it the same marks as Firefox here ;)
❌ Couldn't test downloading/uploading dialogue window
❌ Couldn't test results of downloading
❌ The best I could get was some sites it would give the website title in the titlebar. Every website however showed an unchanging white blank page. Zero websites were usable!
✔️ Best browser tried yet actually, it goes to valid .lan, .local, and .blah.internal addresses when I type them in sans protocol identifier and press enter
❌ I mean I just assume they don't work but obviously couldn't try
❌ The cert for the internal CA at work is in my trusted certs on this system, but Servo doesn't care, throws a certificate error (which I know because the one thing that works, the KDE-supplied window borders, shows a changing title that says "Certificate error" lol)

I'm going to give it a few extra marks for getting test 5 so right, so I'll say it gets 1.9 stars out of 5 ;)

Wait, I just tried to close it, and it is not responding to me clicking the X in the titlebar, I had to resort to killall servo, knocking it down to 1.7.

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New blog post: Multiplexing over IPC channels: subchannel lifecycle

https://underlap.org/multiplexing-over-ipc-channels-subchannel-lifecycle

#Servo #IpcChannel #SoftwareDesign #FormalMethods

is there a list of things Servo supports compared to other browser engines? :repost_ok:

#servo #rust #webdev #browsers

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1/3
On my way home from the @nluug #vj2025. Met a lot of cool people, and had some great #discussions. Loved the #Ladybird presentation, but I was already quite interested in both Ladybird and #Servo. Also some nice discussions about my topic of not using #BigTech.

(Linux news in previous posts)

FOSS NEWS

Servo browser engine can now render more complex websites like Gmail and Google Chat, supports single-valued "select" elements, shadow DOM is enabled by default, "servoshell" example browser now supports iframes etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Gmail-Now-Works

Firefox gets experimental custom new tab image feature (can be enabled in Mozilla Labs):
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/firefox-now-lets-you-set-a-custom-new-tab-background-image

Shotcut 25.05 released with Alpha Strobe video filter, Freeze Frame tool, option to adjust track header width, “Add Generator” button in the timeline toolbar, 1080p preview scaling, DeckLink Gamma modes for SDR and HLG HDR etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/shotcut-25-05-adds-alpha-strobe-video-filter-freeze-frame-tool-integration-and-more/

Inkscape 1.4.2 released with new splash screen, initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files, improved importing of Affinity Designer (.afdesign) files, improved DXF12 export, improved PDF importing, other improvements and bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-2-adds-initial-support-for-importing-vectornator-linearity-curve-files

FFmpeg developers aren't satisfied with the new Rust-based rav1d decoder, say that "Rust is so good you can get paid $20k to make it as fast as C":
https://news.itsfoss.com/ffmpeg-swipe-at-rust/
(This beef sounds like the ones Linus Torvalds says. Maybe he's also an FFmpeg dev? lol)

Canonical, Zerodha, Posit, Sanity, Tideways and other companies join the Open Source Pledge to fund FOSS projects:
https://news.itsfoss.com/major-boost-open-source-2025/
(Canonical and a random Indian financial company funding FOSS projects? Is it just me who has some bad feelings about this? 🤔️)
(Why would a bunch of for profit corporations support FOSS projects, if not because they want something out of them?)

#WeeklyNews #News #FOSS #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #Servo #Inkscape #Firefox #FFmpeg #Shotcut #ContentCreation #Browser #WebBrowser #FosseryTech

Alrighty, It's not published on pypi yet, but I'm mostly done with pyservo42c. It's a python UART interface to the MKS Servo42C closed-loop stepper. No external dependencies, good test coverage.

These are great little widgets that provide easy step/dir/en and UART control of a stepper motor.

https://github.com/tjhowse/pyservo42c

All that remains is writing a little wrapper to interface directly to a com port, and then pypi publication.

#python #servo #mks #mechatronics #engineering #diy #maker

A photo of a NEMA17 stepper motor clamped to a benchtop. There is a flag of blue tape attached to the stepper shaft. Behind the stepper is a tangle of multicoloured wires.

#Servo forbids the AI driven contributions, and its actually the first project I know to do so. Do you know more project with such rule in Contribution guideline?

https://book.servo.org/contributing.html#ai-contributions

#FLOSS #OSS

Quelloffene #BrowserEngine: #Servo rendert Gmail ohne Abhängigkeit von Google | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Unabhaengig-von-Google-Freie-Browser-Engine-Servo-rendert-Gmail-und-Google-Chat-10380071.html #OpenSource #Mozilla

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2025/05/14/12394/servo-%e7%9a%84%e4%b8%80%e4%ba%9b%e9%80%b2%e5%b1%95/

Servo 的一些進展

#browser #css #engine #mozilla #servo

#TIL about #Servo;

"... is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications."

https://servo.org/

Also #Verso, an experimental browser built on Servo;

https://wusyong.github.io/posts/verso-0-1/

#web #WebBrowser #Rust

The #Servo browser connects to YouTube on startup due to the default start page servo.org managing to connect to YouTube and Google's ad network without even having a video on it.

And people wonder why I have trust issues and refuse to take many projects that claim to bring us a private and independent web seriously.

#servo

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