# July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more!

DevFeed: [July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/july-in-servo-more-platforms-faster-canvas-web-fonts-in-svg-and-more-3547.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://servo.org/blog/2026/08/31/july-in-servo/>)

Author: The Servo Project Developers

Published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Servo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/servo-blog.md>)

Topics: [servo engine](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/servo-engine.md>), [modern web development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-web-development.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>)

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## AI overview

Servo 0.5.0 is a July release with Linux aarch64 binaries, visible DOM text selections, web-platform features, and additional DOM APIs. It also addresses vulnerabilities in quick-xml and crossbeam-epoch and updates ANGLE.

## Source excerpt

Servo 0.5.0 contains all of the changes we landed in July, which came out to 488 commits, and we now publish binaries for Linux aarch64 (@mukilan, #46760)! DOM text selections are now visible (@mrobinson, @SimonSapin, #46698, #46864, #46742, #46889, #46126). Interactive selection is coming soon! For security fixes, see § Security. We've shipped several new web platform features: 'Cache-Control: stale-while-revalidate' (@arayaryoma, #46060) 'text-decoration-thickness' (@nicoburns, #46592) 'box-decoration-break', for the most part (@Psychpsyo, #45492) '@font-feature-values', for the most part (@simonwuelker, #45308) 'font-language-override', for the most part (@simonwuelker, #46618) 'font-variant-alternates', for the most part (@simonwuelker, #45308) Plus a bunch of new DOM APIs: Ed448, X448, and KMAC algorithms in SubtleCrypto (@kkoyung, #46402, #46141, #46180, #46583, #46606, #46622, #46334, #46376) 'insertHorizontalRule', 'insertImage', 'insertText', and 'forwardDelete' commands in document.execCommand() (@Psychpsyo, #46608, #46597, #46538, #46838) AnimationEffect (@simonwuelker, #46677) new Touch() (@yezhizhen, #46741) duplex property on Request (@Taym95, #46858) effect property on Animation (@simonwuelker, #46677) getKeyframes() and setKeyframes() on KeyframeEffect (@simonwuelker, #46118) id property on LargestContentfulPaint (@shubhamg13, #46828) read-only CSSFontFeatureValuesRule (@simonwuelker, #46728) This is another big update, so here's an outline: You can help! Security Real world compat Work in progress Embedding API For users and developers More on the web platform Performance and stability New contributors You can help! If you're working on a pull request that you think might be interesting for the next monthly update, even if you're not 100% sure, tell us about it by following the steps below: You add the monthly update label to your pull request, or comment @servo-highfive monthly update Highfive posts a comment asking you some questi