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Servo 0.0.1 released! (servo.org)
submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Today, the Servo team has released new versions of the servoshell binaries for all our supported platforms, tagged v0.0.1. These binaries are essentially the same nightly builds that were already available from the download page with additional manual testing, now tagging them explicitly as releases for future reference.

We plan to publish such a tagged release every month. For now, we are adopting a simple release process where we will use a recent nightly build and perform additional manual testing to identify issues and regressions before tagging and publishing the binaries.

There are currently no plans to publish these releases on crates.io or platform-specific app stores. The goal is just to publish tagged releases on GitHub.

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[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

I think some of the downvotes might be annoyance at not knowing what servo is.

Everyone in the web and rust communities would know that it is the original rust application that the rust language was made to create: a new web browser built with memory safety and safe parallel execution as first concerns.

Parts of it ended up in Firefox then servo died when Mozilla fired a whole swath of their own devs.

It was stuck in limbo for a few years but has seen a revival under Igalia who have a history of fixing bugs and supporting/adding features to the existing browsers which the big players don't have the resources or the will to work on.

I do think every project needs a non-marketing-speak description of what it does on every major page that a user might visit (e.g. Homepage, project readme, releases/downloads page), but I wouldn't really call version 0.0.1 a proper release.