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Chrome 155 ships a new Rust-based JPEG XL decoder in Blink, four years after Google pulled the format from Chromium. Here's the performance case for JXL and how to start testing it without breaking your existing AVIF/WebP pipeline.
An out-of-band Next.js patch fixes a critical remote code execution bug in the Node.js ImageResponse API, traced to how the Satori SVG renderer escapes dynamic input. A second, larger release addressing nine more vulnerabilities ships September 30.
Safari 26.4 shipped the finalized display: grid-lanes syntax for native CSS masonry, with Chrome and Firefox updating their flagged implementations to match. Here's how to adopt it today without breaking keyboard navigation in browsers that don't support it yet.
The one window each year where a working developer gets direct input into what Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge prioritise closes on September 23. Here is what makes a proposal survive selection, and what does not.
React 19.3 shipped on September 9 and made Fragment Refs stable. You can now attach event listeners, observers and focus management to a group of siblings without adding a DOM node — or modifying the components you don't own.
Firefox 154 shipped sibling-index() and sibling-count() on August 18, making both Baseline Newly available. An element can now read its own position in CSS — which quietly retires the Sass @for loop and the style={{'--i': i}} prop.
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