News

Posts and newsletters from the Ladybird project.

2026

2026-02-23
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.

2026-01-31
This Month in Ladybird - January 2026

Shifting focus to real websites, Gmail performance, site compatibility, painting architecture, IPC hardening, HTTP caching, media streaming, and more.

2025

2025-12-31
This Month in Ladybird - December 2025

CSS features, media playback, JS performance, HTTP caching, GC leak fixes, and more.

2025-11-30
This Month in Ladybird - November 2025

WPT gains, rendering improvements, streaming fetch, media fixes, and more.

2025-10-31
This Month in Ladybird - October 2025

Progress across caching, media, Trusted Types, XPath, CSS, WebGL, and even first runs on Windows.

2025-09-30
This Month in Ladybird - September 2025

HTTP caching enabled by default, better CSS custom property handling, DevTools improvements, CSS Typed OM API advances, view transitions, and Trusted Types.

2025-08-31
This Month in Ladybird - August 2025

Google Sheets support, Gamepad API, Cookie Store API, CSS Typed OM progress, layout work in grid and inline formatting, and better grapheme cluster handling.

2025-07-31
This Month in Ladybird - July 2025

Google reCAPTCHA now passes, high refresh rate rendering, HTTP/3 support, Trusted Types progress, @property work and UTF-16 correctness fixes.

2025-06-30
This Month in Ladybird - June 2025

Notable WPT progress, CSS logical alias properties, counters on pseudo-elements, tech() in @font-face sources, Local Storage persistence, Geolocation, and progress on Windows support.

2025-05-31
This Month in Ladybird - May 2025

We’re officially tax-exempt, new JavaScript date parser, Clipboard APIs, Transferable Streams, and an in-house BigInt implementation with LibTomMath.

2025-04-30
This Month in Ladybird - April 2025

Big WPT gains alongside performance work, faster JavaScript function calls, Flexbox layout optimization, script-blocking style sheet handling, mix-blend-mode, and URLPattern.

2025-03-31
This Month in Ladybird - March 2025

Video fixes with very basic YouTube support, site isolation (process per origin), Settings UI refresh, background-blend-mode, and faster relayout from intrinsic size caching.

2025-02-28
This Month in Ladybird - February 2025

Block rendering until CSS is ready, OpenSSL and curl adoption continues, Firefox DevTools protocol support lands, and aarch64 Linux joins CI.

2025-01-31
This Month in Ladybird - January 2025

Major WPT progress, test262 (JS spec) improvements, early Google BotGuard support, new CSS properties, and better light/dark mode behavior.

2024

2024-12-31
This Month in Ladybird - December 2024

WebGL arrives, home-grown crypto replaced with OpenSSL, WebCrypto API improvements, Canvas2D filters, smarter calc(), Switch input, and CSS font-variant features.

2024-11-30
This Month in Ladybird - November 2024

Temporal rewrite, early Swift experiments, vertical text, Web Crypto API progress, CSS nesting and transform updates, color() improvements, and Editing API work.

2024-10-31
This Month in Ladybird - October 2024

Expanding our Board, stronger test infrastructure, WebAudio fixes, CSS filter support, nesting @media on the way, clip-path shapes, and our first pizza ordered with Ladybird.

2024-10-18
Mike Shaver joins the Ladybird Board

Bringing in a browser industry veteran to raise the bar.

2024-09-30
This Month in Ladybird - September 2024

Networking via curl, better audio through FFmpeg, improved emoji support, Skia font decoding, CSS Transitions and Cascade Layers, plus GPU-accelerated masks.

2024-09-19
Welcoming Tim Flynn to the Ladybird Board

Ensuring that the OSS community has a seat at the table.

2024-08-31
This Month in Ladybird - August 2024

HarfBuzz text shaping and RTL, Skia powering SVG and 2D canvas, sticky positioning, drag and drop, retained display lists for faster scrolling, and console.table().

2024-07-31
This Month in Ladybird - July 2024

Launching a nonprofit, Web Platform Tests, Wasm, image format libraries, and more!

2024-07-01
Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

Launching our 501(c)(3) non-profit.

2024-07-01
Why we need Ladybird

Co-founder Chris Wanstrath shares his thoughts.

2024-06-03
Ladybird forks from SerenityOS

Announcing the split, and what it means for both projects.