Flutter Notable Commits - 2026

For years, Flutter's Framework team has been reviewing "notable commits" in our weekly staff meeting at Google. The notable commits are a lightly curated list of the pull requests that have landed in the previous week. The goal is to celebrate our progress and the developers who have contributed to that progress. Unfortunately, many of those developers have not been in the weekly staff meeting's conference room, they come from other teams within Google and the wider Flutter community.

Each list typically covers about one week and is not comprehensive. Its focus is on commits to Flutter's framework "flutter/flutter" repo that involved the Framework team as pull-request authors or reviewers. That's not strictly true however, we all contribute to many repos - not the least of which is "flutter/packages" - and you'll find evidence of that here. And not all of the commits listed here necessarily involved someone from the Framework or Engine team. One final observation about the participants in the list below is the large number of contributions that have come from the Flutter community. We are blessed with a an active and generous developer community. Each week's notable commits list is a tribute to everyone who has helped advance Flutter, not just Google's Framework team.

Prior Notable Commits

January 01, 2026 to January 23, 2026

Details

Happy New Year! 🎆 The Flutter team and community have kicked off 2026 with a bang, landing 390 commits in the first few weeks of the year. This report highlights significant improvements in the Cupertino library, new widget capabilities like customizable Hero transitions, and expanded tooling support. We are also incredibly excited to welcome 12 new contributors who have made their first mark on the project!

Framework & Material

#180100 Customizable Hero Transitions
The Hero widget now supports customizable animation curves, allowing for more expressive and unique shared element transitions.\
- Authored by aaazlkm and reviewed by Chun-Heng Tai, Justin McCandless, Victor Sanni.
#181320, #180273 Expansible Widget Enhancements
Added a toggle method to ExpansibleController and introduced comprehensive API samples and documentation for the Expansible widget, making it easier to use.
- Authored by Kostia Sokolovskyi and GowsikRaja, reviewed by Victor Sanni, Chun-Heng Tai.
#177337, #180724 Cupertino Refinements
CupertinoSheetRoute now supports native-like scrolling and dragging. Additionally, CupertinoFocusHalo now supports superellipse shapes, matching Apple's design language more closely. 🍏
- Authored by Mitchell Goodwin and Onnimanni Hannonen, reviewed by Kate Lovett, Chun-Heng Tai, Tong Mu.
#181074 DropdownMenu Flexibility
Reverted a breaking change to allow DropdownMenu to support non-nullable types more gracefully, restoring flexibility for developers.
- Authored by August and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, Justin McCandless.
#180577 BottomNavigationBar Accessibility
Added semantics labels to BottomNavigationBar items, improving the experience for users with screen readers. ♿
- Authored by Lilian Cadiou and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Hannah Jin.
#180667 CarouselView Control
Introduced leadingIndex to CarouselController and an onItemChanged callback to CarouselView, giving developers precise control over carousel state.
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Qun Cheng.
#177678, #180722 RawTooltip
Added RawTooltip, a lower-level widget with a smaller API surface, providing a foundation for building custom tooltips without the opinionated defaults of the material Tooltip.
- Authored by Victor Sanni and Mohellebi abdessalem, reviewed by Chun-Heng Tai, Tong Mu, Justin McCandless, Huy.

Engine & Platform

#179219 Android Display Corner Radii
Added support for querying display corner radii on Android, enabling UI adaptations for rounded screen corners.
- Authored by Kostia Sokolovskyi and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Matt Boetger, Mouad Debbar.
#180041 Reduced Motion on Web
Implemented support for prefers-reduced-motion on the web, automatically disabling animations when the user requests it.
- Authored by David Iglesias and reviewed by Mouad Debbar.
#175805 Web Template Variables
Added a --web-define flag to inject template variables into index.html during build time, simplifying environment configuration for web apps. 🌐
- Authored by 🧙‍♂️ O Mago do Flutter 🪄 and reviewed by Kevin Moore.

Tooling & Ecosystem

#180140 Widget Preview IDs
Registered DTD streams and services now include a UUID, improving the reliability of the Widget Preview feature in IDEs.
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by Danny Tuppeny, Jessy Yameogo.
#177888 Auto-Generated ExportOptions
The Flutter tool now auto-generates ExportOptions.plist for manual iOS code signing, streamlining the build process for iOS developers.
- Authored by Nour and reviewed by Jenn Magder.
#180689 Feature Flags Manifest Logic
Fixed logic to correctly locate the project root when searching for the FeatureFlags manifest, improving robustness of the tool.
- Authored by Albert Wolszon and reviewed by Andrew Marshall.

First-time Contributors

A massive welcome to our 12 new contributors! 🚀 Your contributions are vital to the health of the project.

Augusto César Perin, for #180824, fixing a crash in RawAutocomplete.
David Bebawy, for #180419, improving defensive programming in Windows embedding.
Emmanuel, for #180074, adding RenderSliver.getMaxPaintRect.
GowsikRaja, for #180273, creating docs and samples for the Expansible widget.
Ikramul Hasan, for #181050, fixing ink highlight clipping in NavigationDrawer.
Jon Mountjoy, for #178643, adding RouteSettings to showCupertinoSheet.
Kishimoto, for #180172, fixing a documentation typo.
Lilian Cadiou, for #180577, enhancing BottomNavigationBar accessibility.
Marijua, for #181398, modernizing Typography code with Dart 3 features.
Muhammad Saqib Javed, for #180355, fixing iOS extended attribute removal.
Nhan Nguyen, for #180326, fixing a docstring in the Drawer widget.
🧙‍♂️ O Mago do Flutter 🪄, for #175805, adding web build template variable support.

January 24, 2026 to February 06, 2026

Details

This week, 12 new contributors joined us for a total of 214 changes. We are marching towards 3.41.0 with significant macOS improvements, new Cupertino widgets, and better tooling!

Framework & Widgets

#174695 Cupertino apps get a native-style menu system with the new CupertinoMenuAnchor widget. 🍎
- Authored by davidhicks980 and reviewed by Tong Mu.
#176494 MenuAnchor now supports Material Design 3 animations, making menus feel more responsive. ✨
- Authored by davidhicks980 and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Tong Mu.
#181455 AnimatedCrossFade gains an onEnd callback, perfect for chaining animations.
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by Victor Sanni, Loïc Sharma.
#177895 SizeTransition now supports an alignment property, giving you more control over the animation origin.
- Authored by Ivone Djaja and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Tong Mu, Valentin Vignal, Victor Sanni.
#177220 Designers will love the new RoundedSuperellipseInputBorder for smoother, more organic shapes. 🟢
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by Tong Mu, Justin McCandless.
#181373 DropdownMenuFormField now exposes more customization options like leading/trailing icons and focus nodes.
- Authored by August and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Tong Mu.
#181475 ThemeMode now has cleaner isDark, isLight, and isSystem getters.
- Authored by Dmytro Turskyi and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Victor Sanni.
#180752 Easily clear form errors without resetting values using the new clearError API on FormFieldState.
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Kate Lovett.

Platform (macOS & Android)

#181769 macOS apps now support the Display P3 wide color gamut, ensuring vibrant and accurate colors. 🎨
- Authored by nmarci89 and reviewed by gaaclarke, Matej Knopp.
#180895 Native tooltip windows are now implemented on macOS.
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek, Loïc Sharma.
#181124 FlutterFragment now supports Android's predictive back gesture. 🔙
- Authored by moko256 and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Gray Mackall.
#180287 Fixed a macOS issue where old windows would persist after a hot restart.
- Authored by yim and reviewed by Matej Knopp.

Tooling & Ecosystem

#180531 The minimum required Xcode version is now 15, with Xcode 16 recommended. 🛠️
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by Jenn Magder, Victoria Ashworth.
#181533 Debug symbols are now split into separate .dsym files for native assets on macOS and iOS, reducing app size.
- Authored by Daco Harkes and reviewed by Ben Konyi, Victoria Ashworth.
#181884 The web hot reload flag is deprecated as it is now enabled by default.
- Authored by Nicholas Shahan and reviewed by Mouad Debbar.

First-time Contributors

We welcome 12 new contributors this week!

Anish Tiwari, for #180367, which fixed widget state handling in radio and switch list tiles.
Ashok Narayan, for #180469, which improved accessibility contrast for pre-test messages.
Christoph Prenissl, for #181082, which fixed a range slider issue.
Dmytro Turskyi, for #181475, which added convenience getters to ThemeMode.
Eren Gun, for #181657, which cleaned up test dependencies.
Giancarlo Cante, for #180944, which renamed a parameter in WidgetTesterCallback for clarity.
Ivone Djaja, for #177895, which added an alignment property to SizeTransition.
jingweicai, for #181440, which optimized web font loading.
Jonathan Reimer, for #175587, which added the Linux Foundation Health Score badge.
nmarci89, for #181720, which fixed P3 color conversion logic.
Nurda, for #181807, which cleaned up cross imports.
Patrick Billingsley, for #181579, which propagated MediaQueryData to OverlayPortal.

February 07, 2026 to February 20, 2026

Details

A total of 211 changes were merged to the framework, engine, and packages since the last report.

Framework

#180389 Expose TabBarScrollController for custom TabBar behavior. Developers can now pass a TabBarScrollController to the TabBar widget, allowing for more granular control over tab scrolling and programmatic synchronization with other scrollable components. 🖱️
- Authored by Navaron Bracke and reviewed by Tong Mu and Kate Lovett.
#180257 Customizable padding for Stepper widget. The Stepper widget now supports headerPadding and contentPadding properties, enabling developers to fine-tune the layout and spacing of their stepped processes for better visual alignment. 📏
- Authored by Safwan Mamji and reviewed by Tong Mu and Victor Sanni.
#182527 Add RawTooltip.ignorePointer for hit-test control. A new ignorePointer property has been added to RawTooltip, giving developers the ability to control whether tooltips should be transparent to hit testing, which is particularly useful for overlay management. 🎯
- Authored by Victor Sanni and reviewed by Tong Mu, chunhtai, and Navaron Bracke.
#181092 Introduce ScrollCacheExtent and fix shrinkwrap crashes. This change introduces the ScrollCacheExtent class to modernize how cache extents are specified and fixes a critical bug where shrinkWrap: true could cause applications to crash due to invalid cache calculations. 🛠️
- Authored by chunhtai and reviewed by Kate Lovett.
#182391 Reliable status bar tap to scroll on iOS. This reland ensures that only the foreground Scaffold handles status bar tap events on iOS by performing a hit-test before scrolling, fixing a potential crash when multiple scaffolds are present. 📱
- Authored by LongCatIsLooong and reviewed by chunhtai.
#181882 Clearer error messages for color/decoration conflicts. Developers will now receive a much clearer and more helpful error message when providing both a color and decoration to a widget, explaining that one is a shorthand for the other and how to fix the conflict. 💡
- Authored by Tong Mu and reviewed by Kate Lovett.

Web

#182079 Fix web-define flag in web builds. The --web-define flag is now correctly respected during flutter build web, ensuring that custom environment variables are properly substituted in index.html and flutter_bootstrap.js. 🌐
- Authored by Michał Kucharski and reviewed by Mouad Debbar and Ben Konyi.
#180556 Improved accessibility for web form validation. Form validation errors on the web are now passed to screen readers using aria-description, ensuring that users of assistive technologies receive immediate feedback when form fields contain errors. ♿
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by chunhtai and Mouad Debbar.

Tool

#182392 Guided errors for SwiftPM and CocoaPods conflicts. The Flutter tool now provides specific, actionable instructions when a plugin conflict occurs between Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods, helping developers navigate the migration to SwiftPM. 📦
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by stuartmorgan-g.
#181224 New command for Swift Package Add-to-App. An experimental flutter build swift-package command has been introduced to help developers create a Swift package for embedding Flutter apps into native iOS/macOS applications, simplifying the "Add-to-App" workflow. 🚀
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by stuartmorgan-g.
#180098 Discover running apps via the CLI. A new flutter running-apps command uses mDNS to discover and list all currently running Flutter applications on the network, making it easier to manage multiple debug sessions. 🔍
- Authored by Jaime Wren and reviewed by Ben Konyi.
#181515 Warnings for legacy iOS UIScene lifecycle. The tool now monitors iOS device logs for UIScene warnings and provides a guided message to help developers migrate their applications to the modern iOS lifecycle. ⚠️
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by Ben Konyi.

Platform

#182113 Support for new Android CheckState APIs. Accessibility support on Android has been updated to use the latest CheckState APIs introduced in Android API 36, ensuring accurate state reporting for checkboxes and switches. 🤖
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai.
#181251 Default SwiftPM support in new plugins. Newly created iOS and macOS plugins will now include support for both Swift Package Manager and CocoaPods by default, future-proofing new packages from the start. 🍏
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by Victoria Ashworth.

Engine

#182117 Extended uniform matrix support for Impeller. The Impeller rendering engine now supports getUniformMatX and getUniformMatXArray on desktop and mobile platforms, enabling more complex custom shaders and visual effects. 🎨
- Authored by walley892 and reviewed by gaaclarke.

First-time Contributors

Welcome to 13 new first-time contributors!

Akhil George, for #181658, which fixes an issue where DateRangePicker ignored DatePickerTheme.dayShape.
Akshat.Shukla, for #182461, which fixed grammar in the animation library documentation.
Divyansh Shah, for #182051, which improved testing documentation.
Dominique Martinet, for #181984, which fixed binary stripping in certain build targets.
EricApostal, for #182273, which improved robustness of web define variable handling.
Hameed Habeeblahi Gbolahan, for #182211, which removed Material dependencies from semantics tests.
Ilyosbek Ibrokhimov, for #181721, which removed Material dependencies from radio button tests.
lllgm, for #180386, which added a null check for textInputPlugin in FlutterView.
Noaman Monther, for #180814, which improved AlignmentGeometry support in ExpansionTile.
qian, for #182057, which fixed build failures for Wayland-only platforms.
Ricky van den berg, for #181966, which fixed a memory leak in Impeller's Vulkan backend.
Safwan Mamji, for #180257, which added customizable padding to the Stepper widget.
Michał Kucharski, for #182079, which fixed the --web-define flag in web builds.

February 21, 2026 to February 27, 2026

Details

This week saw 182 changes land in the Flutter repository, including several highly requested features and developer experience improvements that are expected to be part of the upcoming 3.34.0 release. We are especially excited to welcome 11 first-time contributors to the project!

Framework

#181795 Fix Text.semanticsIdentifier being absorbed by ancestor nodes
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by Chun-Heng Tai.
- Ensures Text widgets with a semanticsIdentifier create their own semantic element instead of being absorbed by ancestors like Dialog, improving accessibility auditing.
#182731 New SizedBox.square() constructor
- Authored by Nate Wilson and reviewed by Loïc Sharma, Victor Sanni.
- Adds a convenient SizedBox.square() constructor for creating square boxes with a single dimension parameter. 📐
#182499 Fix StretchingOverscrollIndicator crash
- Authored by Ahmed Mohamed Sameh and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Victor Sanni.
- Prevents a crash in StretchingOverscrollIndicator when it is disposed or used in a zero-size environment.

Material

#182785 Fix RawAutocomplete crash
- Authored by Bruno Corona and reviewed by Victor Sanni.
- Fixes an assertion crash in RawAutocomplete that occurred when attempting to hide an options view that was already hidden.
#180975 MenuAnchor software keyboard awareness
- Authored by Patrick Billingsley and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, Victor Sanni.
- Updates MenuAnchor to respect software keyboard constraints, ensuring menus are not obscured by the keyboard. ⌨️
#181238 ExpansionTile WidgetStatesController support
- Authored by Vikash Tiwari and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Justin McCandless.
- Adds WidgetStatesController support to ExpansionTile, allowing developers to listen to and control its interactive states.
#181403 AnimationStyle support in ModalBottomSheet
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Chun-Heng Tai, Tong Mu, Victor Sanni.
- Allows customizing ModalBottomSheet entrance and exit animations using AnimationStyle.
#182475 Carousel migration to CustomScrollView
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Qun Cheng.
- Migrates the Material CarouselView to use CustomScrollView under the hood, enabling better integration with other slivers.

Impeller & Graphics

#182847 Adds float32 output to Image.toByteData()
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by b-luk, Jim Graham.
- Adds support for exporting image data as float32 in Image.toByteData(), enabling higher precision image processing.
#182224 [Impeller] Bilinear filtering for non-uniformly scaled text
- Authored by Serhat Güler and reviewed by gaaclarke, John "codefu" McDole.
- Improves text quality in Impeller by using bilinear filtering for text with non-uniform scales, eliminating jagged edges. ✨
#181206 Paint paragraphs as a single image in Impeller
- Authored by Rusino and reviewed by Mouad Debbar.
- Optimizes text rendering in Impeller by painting paragraphs as a single image where appropriate, improving performance. 🚀

Tooling & Platforms

#182786 Improved Impeller shader compilation error reporting
- Authored by b-luk and reviewed by Jim Graham, John "codefu" McDole.
- Truncates long shader compilation errors in the console and saves the full output to a file, making it easier to debug complex shader issues.
#182913 Xcode 26 compatibility improvements
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.
- Adds warnings and excludes arm64 if dependencies require it when using Xcode 26, ensuring smoother builds on the latest Apple tools.
#182301 Fix future warnings in async try-catch blocks
- Authored by b-luk and reviewed by Jim Graham.
- Resolves a lint warning when awaiting Future returns inside async bodies within try blocks.
#180692 Improved web key event synthesis
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by Mouad Debbar.
- Fixes an issue where the web embedder was synthesizing key-up events too eagerly, leading to inconsistent keyboard behavior.
#182362 Fix delegate copy on plugins initialization
- Authored by eMxPi and reviewed by LouiseHsu, Victoria Ashworth.
- Ensures plugin initialization correctly handles delegate copying, preventing potential crashes or misbehavior during app startup.
#182924 New Linux view sizing API
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.
- Introduces fl_view_new_sized_to_content() for Linux, allowing views to automatically size themselves based on Flutter's content.
#181808 Progress indicator for artifact downloads
- Authored by Felipe Peter and reviewed by Ben Konyi, John "codefu" McDole.
- Adds a helpful progress indicator to flutter precache, showing exactly what's being downloaded and how much is left. 📦

First-time Contributors

A big welcome to our newest contributors!

Alexander Dmitriev, for #182093, which clarifies the positionInlineChildren assertion.
Aditya Rathore, for #182584, which fixes typos in method names.
Bruno Corona, for #182785, which fixes a RawAutocomplete crash.
Emma Twersky, for #182798, which updates the 2026 roadmap.
eMxPi, for #182362, which fixes delegate copy on plugins initialization.
Jhonathan C. Queiroz, for #182684, which renames a minification flag for clarity.
Maik Wild, for #181716, which fixes a textscaler clamp assertion error.
serbandin, for #181931, which fixes a Huawei ImageReader issue.
Serhat Güler, for #182224, which improves text rendering in Impeller.
Vikash Tiwari, for #181238, which adds WidgetStatesController support to ExpansionTile.
xiaowei guan, for #181656, which fixes a Linux rendering issue in Impeller.

February 27, 2026 to March 06, 2026

Details

This week saw 116 commits land in the Flutter repository. Highlights include major performance improvements for large pinned tables, native desktop windowing for dialogs, and the activation of Swift Package Manager by default on master and beta channels. We also welcomed five first-time contributors to the project!

Framework

#181861 Native desktop windowing for dialogs
A new useWindowing flag in MaterialApp enables showDialog to open content in a separate, native desktop window on supported platforms, providing a more platform-integrated experience. 🪟
- Authored by Matthew Kosarek and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Loïc Sharma.
#180563 Performance boost for large pinned tables
Scrolling in TableView with pinned rows or columns is now significantly smoother thanks to an optimized layout logic that only processes visible children. ⚡
- Authored by SakuraMomoko and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Renzo Olivares.
#181326 Display corner radii support for predictive back
Predictive back transitions on Android 12+ now respect the device's actual display corner radii, ensuring a seamless and modern feel during navigation. 📱
- Authored by Kostia Sokolovskyi and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Navaron Bracke.
#180753 Improved focus highlight mode on Android
Flutter now correctly identifies key events from Android software keyboards, preventing them from incorrectly triggering traditional focus highlights and preserving the touch-first UX. ⌨️
- Authored by romain.gyh and reviewed by Renzo Olivares, Loïc Sharma.
#181795 Fixed semantics identifier absorption
Text.semanticsIdentifier is now correctly isolated in its own semantic node, preventing it from being absorbed by ancestor nodes and improving the reliability of accessibility testing. 🔍
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by chunhtai.
#182331 Optimized Scaffold FAB animations
A targeted refactor in Scaffold reduces unnecessary work during Floating Action Button transitions, improving performance during common layout animations. 🚀
- Authored by Nate Wilson and reviewed by Tong Mu, Justin McCandless.

API & Architecture

#182934 Mixed color space support in Color.lerp
Interpolating between colors in different spaces (like sRGB and Display P3) now automatically converts to the wider gamut, ensuring accurate and vibrant color transitions. 🎨
- Authored by Lukas Klingsbo and reviewed by gaaclarke, Tong Mu.
#182791 New VM services for accessibility evaluation
Added new VM service extensions that allow developers to trigger automated accessibility audits, paving the way for better integrated A11y testing tools. ♿
- Authored by chunhtai and reviewed by Ben Konyi.
#182847 Float32 support for Image.toByteData
High-precision image data can now be exported in float32 format in the Impeller backend, enabling advanced rendering and compute workflows that require high dynamic range. 🖼️
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by b-luk, Jim Graham.

Platform & Tooling

#165323 Stylus support on Windows
Windows applications now correctly identify and handle stylus input as a distinct device kind, supporting pressure sensitivity and other stylus-specific data. 🖊️
- Authored by CodeDoctor and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek, Loïc Sharma.
#182923 SwiftPM enabled by default
Swift Package Manager is now the default dependency manager for iOS and macOS projects on the master and beta channels, simplifying the plugin ecosystem. 📦
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by stuartmorgan-g.
#182506, #182394, #182375 Enhanced SwiftPM migration guidance
New warnings and detailed diagnostic messages provide clear, actionable steps for developers when plugins or projects require migration to Swift Package Manager. 🛠️
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth, Nour and reviewed by hellohuanlin, Elijah Okoroh.
#182826 UIScene migration warnings for iOS plugins
The engine now warns developers when iOS plugins have not yet migrated to the modern UIScene lifecycle, ensuring better long-term platform compatibility. 🍎
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by hellohuanlin.
#183187 Fixed perspective shadows in Impeller
Convex path shadows now render correctly under perspective transformations in the Impeller backend, fixing long-standing visual artifacts. ✨
- Authored by Jim Graham and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#181402 New diagnostic for invisible ink splashes
A new debug-mode assertion warns developers when a ListTile is wrapped in a way that would hide its background or ink splash effects, preventing silent UI issues. ⚠️
- Authored by Qun Cheng and reviewed by Tong Mu.

First-time Contributors

Welcome to the Flutter community! We’re thrilled to have your first contributions land this week:

GyuBin Hwang, for #183070, which unifies maskValue for TextDecoration and makes the class final.
Ishaq Hassan, for #183081, which ensures double quotes are used in the settings.gradle.kts template for better compatibility.
SakuraMomoko, for #180563, which fixes a significant performance jank in TableView when using pinned rows or columns.
CodeDoctor, for #165323, which introduces native stylus support for Windows applications.
Nick Fisher, for #182999, which cleans up documentation headers for Linux texture management.

March 06, 2026 to March 12, 2026

Details

This week in Flutter, we saw 105+ commits landing in the repository, with a major focus on accessibility and foundational work for advanced window management. We are also excited to welcome one new contributor!

Accessibility

#183606 Improved accessibility for check state changes on Android 16
This change adds support for a new accessibility event in Android 16, ensuring that checkboxes and switches announce their state changes (checked, partially checked, or unchecked) more accurately for users of screen readers. ♿️📱
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by Chun-Heng Tai.

Framework & Core

#182903 New SatelliteWindowController interface for advanced window management
Introduces the SatelliteWindowController and SatelliteWindow widget, laying the foundation for sophisticated multi-window support and advanced desktop windowing capabilities in Flutter. 🛰️🪟
- Authored by Matthew Kosarek and reviewed by Justin McCandless, Loïc Sharma.
#180411 New scrollCacheExtent property for PageView
Allows developers to specify a cache extent for PageView, enabling pre-rendering of off-screen pages to ensure smoother swiping and transitions. 🏎️📄
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- Authored by Koji Wakamiya and reviewed by Piinks, Chun-Heng Tai.
#180375 Optimized semantics calculation with geometry dirty nodes
Improves performance by tracking "geometry dirty nodes," allowing Flutter to recalculate only the necessary parts of the semantics tree when layouts change, rather than clearing the entire geometry from the updated node to the nearest boundary. ⚡️🔍
- Authored by Chun-Heng Tai and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, Justin McCandless.

Tooling & Platform UX

#181889 Shader support for asset transformers
Brings shader compilation closer to the existing asset model by allowing transformers to be declared for shader entries in pubspec.yaml. This ensures that transformed shader sources are consistently used during builds and hot reloads. 🛠️✨
- Authored by Laurie-Lin and reviewed by Ben Konyi, Lau Ching Jun.
#182661 Fixed keyboard flicker when switching focus on iOS
Addresses a long-standing issue where the keyboard would briefly dismiss and reappear when switching focus between multiple text fields on iOS, providing a much smoother user experience. ⌨️🍎
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- Authored by Koji Wakamiya and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, Loïc Sharma.
#183593 Fix for macOS plugin relative paths in Xcode
Fixes a build-time regression where relative paths for macOS plugins in Xcode were incorrectly calculated, ensuring more reliable builds for macOS desktop applications. 🏗️🖥️
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by Stuart Morgan.
#182643 Superellipse clipping support for backdrop filters
Implements ClipRSuperellipse for backdrop filters on platform views, allowing developers to use modern, smooth rounded corners (superellipses) in their designs. 🎨📐
- Authored by Hari-07 and reviewed by hellohuanlin.

Material Design

#182932 Positioned menus now animate from the user's pointer
Ensures that context menus and other positioned menus begin their opening animation directly from where the user clicked, rather than from a fixed anchor point, resulting in a more natural and responsive feel. 🖱️📍
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- Authored by David Hicks and reviewed by dkwingsmt.

Engine & Performance

#180072 GLES3 shader support for Impeller Linux and custom embedders
Enables the use of GLES3 shaders in the Impeller engine for Linux and other custom embedders, improving rendering capabilities and performance on supported hardware. 🚂🐧
- Authored by Andrew Marshall and reviewed by Gordon Hayes, Jason Simmons.
#182963 Fix for Android plugin auto-registration race condition
Corrects a timing issue in FlutterFragmentActivity where plugins could incorrectly attempt auto-registration during activity recreation, leading to more stable plugin lifecycles on Android. 🤖🩹
- Authored by littleGnAl and reviewed by Camille Simon, Michael Boetger.

Documentation & Policy

#183326 New contribution guidelines for AI-generated code
Adds clear expectations and documentation regarding the use of AI tools when contributing to the Flutter repository, ensuring high standards for code quality and ownership. 📝🤖
- Authored by Stuart Morgan and reviewed by John "codefu" McDole.

First-time Contributors

We are thrilled to welcome a new contributor this week!

Laurie-Lin, for #181889, which adds shader support for asset transformers in the Flutter tool. Welcome to the community!

March 14, 2026 to March 20, 2026

Details

This week, the Flutter community landed 129 changes, moving us toward the upcoming 3.44.0 release. We are thrilled to welcome 7 first-time contributors! This week's highlights include significant accessibility improvements, more flexible desktop windowing, and a smoother developer experience across all platforms.

Framework & Widgets

#183302 Improved web scrolling reliability
Web scrolling is now more reliable and less likely to "swallow" events, ensuring that pointer signals are only handled when necessary and allowing the browser to perform default actions. 🖱️
- Authored by Onnimanni Hannonen and reviewed by Kate Lovett, Mohellebi Abdessalem.
#183074 Enhanced code consistency with const BorderRadius
App performance and code consistency get a boost by favoring const BorderRadius.all over BorderRadius.circular, enabling more widespread use of constant constructors. 📐
- Authored by Alexander Dmitriev and reviewed by Tong Mu, Kate Lovett.
#183303 Smoother bottom sheet animations
Bottom sheets now animate more smoothly even when interrupted by user interaction, fixing a visual glitch during transitions. 📉
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Victor Sanni, Tong Mu.
#183514 Flexible NavigationRail alignment
NavigationRail is now more flexible on large screens, allowing developers to customize how destinations are distributed vertically using standard MainAxisAlignment. 📏
- Authored by Bruno Corona and reviewed by Kate Lovett.

Accessibility

#183569 Non-text color contrast evaluation
Developers can now automatically verify that non-text controls, like icons and buttons, meet accessibility color contrast standards with a new evaluation tool. 🎨
- Authored by Qun Cheng and reviewed by chunhtai.
#183475 Accurate semantics for popup and dropdown menus
Accessibility for screen reader users is improved by ensuring that the "expanded" state of popup and dropdown menus is correctly updated and announced. 🔊
- Authored by Ahmed Elsayed and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Hannah Jin.

Tooling & Platform

#179859 Undecorated desktop windows
Desktop developers can now create undecorated windows, enabling more flexible and custom UI designs where Flutter renders all window decorations. 🖼️
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.
#180789 Widget Inspector safe area respect
The Widget Inspector now correctly respects system safe area insets, ensuring that control buttons remain accessible and visible on devices with notches or gesture navigation. 🛡️
- Authored by Gautam Tirkha and reviewed by Kate Lovett.
#183856 & #183849 Modern Android Gradle Plugin DSL migration
Android builds are more future-proof as the Flutter tool has migrated profile build type creation and ProGuard configuration to the modern Android Gradle Plugin DSL. 🤖
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by Reid Baker.
#182246 Swift Package Manager compatibility prompts
Plugin authors will now receive helpful prompts to ensure their plugins are compatible with Swift Package Manager, streamlining dependency management for iOS and macOS. 📦
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by Victoria Ashworth.
#182753 Inter-plugin communication on Android and iOS
Native plugin development is now more powerful as plugins can now easily communicate and access registered instances of other plugins on both Android and iOS. 🔗
- Authored by Jeff Ward and reviewed by Gray Mackall, Reid Baker.
#183399 Automatic codesign for iOS XCFrameworks
Integrating Flutter into existing iOS apps is now easier and more secure with automatic code-signing for XCFrameworks, meeting modern Apple privacy requirements. 🔐
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by stuartmorgan-g.
#183274 Improved AdMob stability on iOS 18.2
iOS developers using AdMob will see improved scrolling performance and stability in lists on iOS 18.2 thanks to refined WebView detection. 📱
- Authored by hellohuanlin and reviewed by Victoria Ashworth.
#183715 Dedicated platform OpenGL context for Linux
Multi-window support on Linux is now more robust with the addition of a dedicated platform OpenGL context, preventing shader compilation failures. 🐧
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.

Engine & Graphics

#183807 Web MSAA support in Impeller
Graphics on the web take a leap forward with new MSAA (Multi-Sample Anti-Aliasing) support in Impeller, resulting in smoother edges and reduced aliasing. ✨
- Authored by Jackson Gardner and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#182326 Android content sizing stability
Android users will experience fewer visual glitches and better stability thanks to a fix for a race condition during surface resizing and viewport metric updates. 🏎️
- Authored by Matt Boetger and reviewed by Gray Mackall.

First-time Contributors

Welcome to our newest contributors! We're excited to have you as part of the Flutter community.

algor, for #183680, which fixed the URL for the Flutter System Overview diagram.
Gautam Tirkha, for #180789, which improved the Widget Inspector control layout to respect system safe area insets.
Mayank Sharma, for #183351, which reduced cross-library coupling in the test suite.
Naman Goyal, for #183375, which improved the developer experience for flutter downgrade.
Sanket Patil, for #183061, which enhanced the clarity and formatting of issue templates.
Eyas, for #176881, which improved integration test reliability on Windows hosts.
Kevin Lamenzo, for #182778, which added valuable guidance for community code reviewers.

March 21, 2026 to March 27, 2026

Details

Another productive week for Flutter, featuring improved desktop startup smoothness, expanded Windows ARM64 support, significant tooling enhancements for artifact downloads and web development, and important accessibility fixes for both Web and Android. This week saw a total of 106 commits from 37 contributors.

Framework & Widgets

#183454 Show windows only after the first frame is ready
Ensures Flutter windows on desktop only become visible after the first frame is fully rendered, preventing a flash of uninitialized content during app startup. 🖼️
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by Robert Ancell.
#183963 Migrate Material examples to use dot shorthand syntax
Updates many framework examples to utilize Dart's new dot shorthand syntax for improved readability and more concise code. ✨
- Authored by Loïc Sharma and reviewed by Justin McCandless.
#184078 Pipe ScrollCacheExtent through more scroll views
Exposes the cacheExtent property on additional scrollable widgets like ListView.custom and GridView.custom, enabling more consistent performance tuning across the framework. 🏎️
- Authored by chunhtai and reviewed by Loïc Sharma.
#184083 Ensure SelectableRegion passes constraints to children unmodified
Fixes a bug where SelectableRegion on the web would cause children to shrink by incorrectly loosening layout constraints, ensuring consistent layout across platforms. 🕸️
- Authored by Renzo Olivares and reviewed by navaronbracke.
#183109 Add scrollPadding property to DropdownMenu
Adds scrollPadding to DropdownMenu to match TextField behavior, allowing developers to control the spacing around the menu when it scrolls into view, such as when the on-screen keyboard appears. ⌨️
- Authored by Ishaq Hassan and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Tong Mu.
#182991 Correctly dismiss Slider value indicators
Fixes a bug where custom Slider value indicators would remain visible after an interaction was completed. 🎚️
- Authored by Tong Mu and reviewed by Qun Cheng, navaronbracke.
#181345 Mark IconData as final and mustBeConst
Enhances type safety and enables more effective icon tree shaking by enforcing that IconData instances are immutable and defined as constants. 🛡️
- Authored by Daco Harkes and reviewed by Kate Lovett.

Engine & Performance

#184096 Optimize simple shape path logic in Impeller
Improves Impeller performance by moving simple shape path optimization logic earlier into the display list builder, reducing overhead during rendering. ⚡
- Authored by b-luk and reviewed by gaaclarke, flar.
#184037 Fix Gaussian blur clipping with negative scales in Impeller
Resolves a rendering issue where Gaussian blurs could be incorrectly clipped when applying a negative scale (such as during a mirroring transformation). 🌫️
- Authored by walley892 and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#184131 Use atomic writes for engine stamps
Prevents potential race conditions during the Flutter build process by ensuring engine stamps are written atomically to the file system. 🏗️
- Authored by b055man and reviewed by Ben Konyi, John "codefu" McDole.

Tooling & Platform

#183724 Filter out extension processes during LLDB attachment on iOS 17+
Fixes an issue where flutter run on iOS 17+ could hang by attempting to attach the debugger to an embedded extension (like WidgetKit) instead of the main application process. 📱
- Authored by Silfalion and reviewed by hellohuanlin, Elijah Okoroh.
#176385 Restore Windows ARM64 support on beta and stable
Re-enables Windows ARM64 engine builds for the beta and stable channels, now that full ARM64 support is available in the stable Dart SDK. 💻
- Authored by August and reviewed by Jason Simmons, John "codefu" McDole.
#182709 Add base-href support to flutter run for web
Simplifies development for web applications hosted in subfolders by bringing the --base-href flag to the flutter run command, matching the existing functionality in flutter build web. 🌐
- Authored by Samuel Abada and reviewed by Ben Konyi, Mouad Debbar.
#182836 Add visual progress bar to artifact downloads
Introduces a much-requested visual progress bar, including download speed and ETA, when the Flutter tool downloads engine artifacts and other dependencies. 📥
- Authored by Felipe Peter and reviewed by Ben Konyi, John "codefu" McDole.

Accessibility

#183897 Correctly report ProgressBar class on Android
Ensures that Flutter's progress indicators are correctly identified as progress bars by Android TalkBack, providing a more accurate experience for users of assistive technology. ♿
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai.

First-time Contributors

Welcome to our newest contributor!

Silfalion, for #183724, which ensures the debugger correctly attaches to the main app process on iOS 17+ when app extensions are present.

March 28, 2026 to April 03, 2026

Details

The Flutter repository has been busy this week with 141 changes from 37 contributors. We are excited to welcome 4 new contributors this week!

Framework and Widgets

#182009 Add alwaysSizeToContent argument to Overlay.
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.
- Added a new alwaysSizeToContent option to Overlay, providing more flexibility for sizing overlays based on their content even within finite constraints. 🖼️
#175710 feat: add infinite carousel support
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by Qun Cheng, Hannah Jin.
- A new feature that adds support for infinite carousels, allowing for seamless looping of content in lists and galleries. 🎠
#184421 Fix line breaks being lost when copying after selection gesture in SelectableRegion
- Authored by Renzo Olivares and reviewed by chunhtai, Loïc Sharma.
- Improved text selection accuracy in SelectableRegion by ensuring line height calculations include newline character regions, fixing issues where copying text lost line breaks. 📋

Desktop and Platforms

#182348 Implement tooltip windows on Linux
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by Matthew Kosarek.
- Linux desktop applications now support native-style tooltip windows using popup windows. 🐧
#182371 Implement popup windows for macOS
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by Loïc Sharma, Matthew Kosarek.
- Enhanced macOS desktop support with the implementation of popup windows, enabling richer UI components like tooltips and menus. 💻
#175406 [Windows] Restore and enable IAccessibleEx implementation
- Authored by Loïc PÉRON and reviewed by Loïc Sharma, Matthew Kosarek.
- Restored advanced accessibility features on Windows by enabling IAccessibleEx, allowing UI automation tools to better identify and interact with Flutter widgets. ♿️
#183072 [Android] Use EdgeToEdge.enable/WindowCompat for edge-to-edge mode instead of deprecated View flags
- Authored by David Bebawy and reviewed by Matt Boetger, Reid Baker.
- Modernizes Android edge-to-edge support by migrating to AndroidX APIs, fixing deprecation warnings and improving compatibility with Android 15. 📱
#183650 [ios] Add opt-in inline prediction text input support
- Authored by Nikhil Bansal and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, Loïc Sharma.
- Adds opt-in support for iOS 17's inline predictive text, giving developers explicit control over how predictive text behaves in their apps. ✍️

Web

#182024 [web] Fix autofill in iOS 26 Safari
- Authored by Mouad Debbar and reviewed by Loïc Sharma.
- Resolved autofill issues in iOS Safari by reusing forms and correctly re-establishing connections after focus changes. 🌐

Tooling and DX

#184518 [ Widget Preview ] Handle collections and records in custom preview annotations
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by Jessy Yameogo.
- Widget Preview now correctly handles collections and records as annotation arguments, preventing crashes when these types are used in @Preview annotations. 🚀
#184473 [ Widget Preview ] Use analysis server for widget preview detection
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by Jessy Yameogo.
- The widget previewer now utilizes the Dart Analysis Server for detecting previews, significantly reducing memory consumption and improving performance when used in IDEs. ⚡️
#183785 [ Tool ] Migrate flutter analyze to use LSP
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by Brian Wilkerson.
- The flutter analyze command has been migrated to use the Language Server Protocol (LSP), ensuring more consistent and efficient analysis. 🔍
#183668 Add plugin version to SwiftPM package symlink directory
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by stuartmorgan-g.
- Ensures Xcode correctly re-caches SwiftPM manifests when plugin versions change by including the version in the symlink directory name. 🍎
#184495 Enable SPM by default on Stable
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by Victoria Ashworth.
- Swift Package Manager (SPM) is now enabled by default for all users on the stable channel, simplifying dependency management for iOS and macOS. 📦
#183747 Warn about slow SwiftPM downloads and centralize SwiftPM cache
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by Ben Konyi.
- Improved developer experience for SwiftPM users with progress indicators during slow downloads and a centralized cache to speed up builds. 🏎️
#184219 Improve error message when dart-define content are not base64 encoded and add more test cases
- Authored by Mohellebi Abdessalem and reviewed by Ben Konyi.
- Developers will now receive much clearer and more helpful error messages when dart-define values are incorrectly formatted. 🛠️

Engine and Rendering

#184090 Adds uber sdf shader gradients with blend
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by Jim Graham, walley892.
- Advanced gradient rendering support in the new Impeller SDF renderer, enabling multi-pass gradient blending for complex shapes. 🎨

First-time Contributors

Welcome to our newest contributors!

Sana Ullah, for #184193, which cleans up cross-imports in sliver tests.
saurabh-mirajkar, for #184104, which clarifies TabBar documentation.
xfce0, for #184517, which removes cross-imports from text input tests.
Nikhil Bansal, for #183650, which adds opt-in inline prediction text input support on iOS.

August 08, 2026 to August 14, 2026

This week, 158 commits landed in the Flutter repository.
A special welcome to our newest contributor!
Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#190888 Fix accessibility_inspector service extensions map mutability
Fixes map mutability issues in the accessibility inspector service extension, preventing runtime modification errors when inspecting semantics trees during debugging sessions. 🔍♿
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai and elliette.

Framework & Core Libraries

#190889 RawTooltip respects AnimationStyle updates and reverseCurve
Enables RawTooltip to dynamically respond to AnimationStyle updates and properly apply reverseCurve animations during dismissal, providing smoother and more customizable tooltip transitions. 🎨✨
- Authored by Victor Sanni and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares.
#190857 Toggleable reaction duration respects overrides
Ensures Toggleable widgets (such as Checkbox, Radio, and Switch components) respect custom reaction animation durations and curves, giving developers finer control over interaction timing and feedback. 🔘⚡
- Authored by Victor Sanni and reviewed by navaronbracke.
#190596 Fixes popuntilwithresult drops results
Resolves a critical routing bug where popping multiple routes using popUntilWithResult would unintentionally discard the returned result, ensuring navigation results are reliably passed back to caller routes. 🧭📦
- Authored by chunhtai and reviewed by justinmc and navaronbracke.

Engine & Performance

#189118 Add ClipPath optimizations to backdrop clips as well
Extends ClipPath geometry optimizations to backdrop filter clips, reducing unnecessary render rasterization and compositor workload when applying blur or filter effects to custom clipped shapes. ⚡✂️
- Authored by Hari07 and reviewed by hellohuanlin.

Web Platform

#185080 Fix: activateSystemCursor should set cursor on all views
Ensures system mouse cursor updates apply across all active web views in multi-view web applications rather than just the primary view, eliminating frozen or unresponsive mouse cursor styling across secondary windows and embeds. 🖱️🌐
- Authored by Arpit Gandhi and reviewed by yjbanov and mdebbar.
#189500 Wait for web rendering before first-frame event
Synchronizes the flutter-first-frame browser event with completion of web scene rasterization, preventing premature HTML splash removal and eliminating blank frame flashes on startup under SkWasm and CanvasKit. 🌐🎬
- Authored by Yusuf İhsan Görgel and reviewed by flutter-zl and harryterkelsen.
#190314 [web] Unify MaskFilter and ColorFilter primitives across CanvasKit and Skwasm
Unifies underlying MaskFilter and ColorFilter graphical primitives into shared Web engine abstractions, ensuring identical shader and blur behavior across CanvasKit and Skwasm renderers. 🎨🌐
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by navaronbracke and mdebbar.

Android Platform

#190972 Catch NoSuchFieldError when reading bold text setting on non-compliant vendor runtimes
Safely catches NoSuchFieldError exceptions when querying system bold text accessibility settings on modified or non-compliant Android vendor ROMs, preventing app startup crashes. 🤖🛡️
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger.
#189823 Offload blocking work in ProcessTextPlugin to the background
Offloads package manager querying and APK label resolution in ProcessTextPlugin to a background TaskQueue, preventing main-thread binder stalls and Android ANRs when opening text selection menus. 🤖⚡
- Authored by Kenneth Koh and reviewed by gmackall, jiahaog, and mboetger.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#191023 Reland "Make Xcode workspace cleaning optional during flutter clean"
Introduces the --[no-]xcode-clean option to flutter clean, allowing developers to skip slow Xcode DerivedData workspace purging for significantly faster daily cleaning cycles. 🍎🧹
- Authored by Elijah Okoroh and reviewed by vashworth.
#189993 Warn when unable to find iOS Device Support Symbols
Adds actionable warnings and diagnostic guidance when Flutter tooling cannot locate iOS device support symbols in Xcode, speeding up troubleshooting for physical device debugging. 📱🔍
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by okorohelijah and cbracken.
#190677 Override deployment target in CocoaPod dependencies when they're less than Xcode's minimum
Automatically raises legacy CocoaPod pod deployment targets to match Xcode's minimum supported deployment version during iOS/macOS builds, preventing build failures on newer Xcode toolchains. 🛠️🍏
- Authored by Victoria Ashworth and reviewed by okorohelijah.
#190878 [flutter_tools] Add --preset option to flutter test
Adds the --preset option to flutter test, allowing developers and CI pipelines to execute predefined test configurations declared in dart_test.yaml. 🧪📋
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by chingjun.
#190905 [icon_tree_shaker] Tree-shake material and cupertino with 0 icons
Updates icon_tree_shaker to completely eliminate Material and Cupertino font assets when an application uses zero icons from those families, further reducing output app bundle sizes. 🌲📦
- Authored by Daco Harkes and reviewed by bkonyi.
#191022 [analysis] Reland "Added initial implementation of the flutter_analyzer_plugin ([ Analysis ] Added initial implementation of the flutter_analyzer_plugin #175679)"
Lands the new flutter_analyzer_plugin foundation, enabling custom Dart analysis server rules and specialized diagnostics directly tailored for Flutter projects. 🔎🚀
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by srawlins.
#190931 [flutter_tools] Fix deadlock in debug adapters when process exits early
Fixes a thread deadlock in Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) handlers when a debuggee process exits prematurely, ensuring IDE debugging sessions terminate cleanly without hanging. 🐞⚡
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by DanTup.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributor this week! Thank you for your impactful contribution:

Kenneth Koh, for #189823, which resolved: Offload blocking work in ProcessTextPlugin to the background.

@sawirricardo

August 14, 2026 to August 21, 2026

This week, 109 commits landed in the Flutter repository.
A special welcome to our new contributors: @sawirricardo, @Boulea7!
Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Framework & Core Libraries

#184549 Add useLogicalPixels to ResizeImage for logical pixel cache sizing
Adds a convenient useLogicalPixels option to ResizeImage, allowing developers to easily size image caches in logical pixels without worrying about device pixel ratio math. 🖼️📐
- Authored by Koji Wakamiya and reviewed by justinmc and victorsanni.
#187254 Improve error reporting for dumpsys meminfo
Provides precise, structured error states when dumpsys meminfo fails, giving developers clearer guidance when investigating memory usage on Android devices. 🧠💡
- Authored by Matt Boetger and reviewed by jesswrd.
#190637 Add numeric-password variation to TextInputType.numberWithOptions
Native support for the numeric-password input variation across platforms, making simple PIN code input fields a breeze! 🔢🔑
- Authored by Alex Li and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares.

Engine & Performance

#191102 Impeller: Fix for stroked circles with stroke half-width > radius, tessellation scaling
Resolves rendering artifacts when drawing heavily-stroked circles in Impeller, improving our vector tessellation quality. ⭕️🔧
- Authored by Chris Bracken and reviewed by flar.

Web Platform

#184961 Fix rendering custom element size
Resolves HTML custom element sizing bugs where Web platform elements wouldn't respect layout constraints, ensuring a robust integration layout. 🌐📏
- Authored by holzgeist and reviewed by navaronbracke, harryterkelsen, and mdebbar.
#191030 [web] Fix WebParagraph subpixel text stretching and letter jittering
Eliminates letter jittering and unwanted subpixel text stretching on the Web platform, significantly boosting typography crispness! 📝✨
- Authored by Mouad Debbar and reviewed by Rusino.

Android Platform

#190311 [Android] Fix 1px edge clipping on Platform Views by preserving floating-point precision where possible and rounding otherwise instead of truncating
Completely eliminates the pesky 1-pixel edge clipping rounding error in Android Platform Views. 📱🎯
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger and jesswrd.
#191321 [Android] Fix respecting--enable-software-rendering in the embedding
The software rendering flag is now fully respected by the Android embedding, resolving unexpected behaviors on devices requiring GPU fallbacks. 🤖⚙️
- Authored by Camille Simon and reviewed by mboetger and chingjun.

Desktop Platforms

#188005 [linux] Read heading text through the AtkText interface
Improves accessibility on the Linux desktop environment by ensuring heading syntax is properly parsed by the AtkText interface for screen readers. 💻♿
- Authored by Ricardo Sawir and reviewed by mattkae and robert-ancell.
#189994 Improve initial size and placement logic for popups and tooltips on Linux
Smooths out size constraints and placement offsets for Linux popups, letting them gracefully fit all system viewpoints. 💬🐧
- Authored by Matthew Kosarek and reviewed by robert-ancell.
#189476 [Linux] Make glBlitFramebuffer optional in the OpenGL compositor
Softens Linux compositor requirements so aging GPU hardware without precise framebuffer blitting extensions can still power a Flutter interface. 🖥️🎨
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by loic-sharma.
#191238 macOS: Fix macOS 27 os_log compile errors, improve TRACE_VSYNC
Preemptively adapts code to appease macOS 15.4 compiler constraints and tightens VSYNC tracing metrics. 🍎🛠️
- Authored by Chris Bracken and reviewed by jmagman.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#190956 [gen_l10n] Preserve script locale inheritance for regional subclasses
Ensures that script-based locales (like zh-Hant) correctly preserve translation inheritance, saving developers from copying fallback translations multiple times! 🌍🔄
- Authored by Langning Zhang and reviewed by chingjun and bkonyi.
#191183 [flutter_tools] Handle all DartDevelopmentServiceExceptions gracefully in resident web runner
The Web resident runner now gracefully catches unexpected toolchain port closures, instead of crashing the process abruptly. 🏃‍♂️🛡️
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by chingjun.
#191215 [flutter_tools] Catch exceptions when starting Chrome to launch DevTools
Polishes the debugging workflow by handling errors defensively when Chrome spawns, meaning smoother DevTools launches. 🔎🐛
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by chingjun.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Ricardo Sawir, for #188005, which resolved: [linux] Read heading text through the AtkText interface.
Langning Zhang, for #190956, which resolved: [gen_l10n] Preserve script locale inheritance for regional subclasses.

@shawnridgeway-google

August 21, 2026 to August 28, 2026

This week, 150 commits landed in the Flutter repository.
A special welcome to our new contributors: @shawnridgeway-google!
Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Framework & Core Libraries

#191329 Use leading scroll offset instead of infinite offset to reveal pinned slivers
This fixes a scrolling issue where revealing pinned slivers could jump or calculate positions incorrectly. Now, pinned elements reveal with smoother, more natural calculations using the leading scroll offset instead of defaulting to infinity. 📌✨
- Authored by Victor Sanni and reviewed by Piinks.
#189664 Make ScrollPhysics reactive by introducing shouldUpdate
ScrollPhysics is now fully reactive! By introducing shouldUpdate, the framework smartly determines when physics need to be rebuilt, reducing unnecessary rebuilds and making scroll behaviors much more responsive to state changes. ⚙️⚡️
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by Piinks and victorsanni.
#191741 Add prompt_suggestion icon to list of RTL mirroring icons.
The prompt_suggestion icon now properly mirrors itself for users in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. This ensures accessibility and proper layout are maintained for international users! 🌐⏪
- Authored by shawnridgeway-google and reviewed by guidezpl and QuncCccccc.
#188148 Fix Navigator.pushNamed<T>() type checking
Type safety for named routes has been improved! The Navigator.pushNamed<T>() method now accurately performs type checking, preventing runtime mismatches when working with returned route arguments. 🛡️🧭
- Authored by Nate Wilson and reviewed by justinmc and victorsanni.
#191767 Handle the case where a window doesn't have a title set
Resolved an issue where a missing window title could cause unexpected behavior on windowing environments. Flutter now gracefully handles these cases, ensuring stable window rendering under all configurations! 🪟🔧
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by mattkae.
#191186 Lerp HSVColor and HSLColor hue along the shortest arc
Animations between HSV and HSL colors are now visually seamless! The interpolation logic has been updated to traverse the shortest angular path on the color wheel, eliminating awkward, long-way-around color transitions. 🎨🌈
- Authored by GlitchFL and reviewed by justinmc and victorsanni.

Engine & Performance

#191615 Fixes translated bounded blurs
A rendering fix for complex visual effects—bounded blurs that are translated no longer produce visual artifacts or clipping! Shadows and blurs now render accurately even when moved. 🌫️✨

Before	After

Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by dkwingsmt.

Desktop Platforms

#191780 macOS: Fix crash on out-of-bounds text input ranges
Fixed a critical crash on macOS caused by invalid text input ranges during IME tracking. Text input on desktop is now more stable and resilient. 📝💥
- Authored by Chris Bracken and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong.
#191516 Switches windows to opengles 3
Windows has officially been transitioned to use OpenGL ES 3! This paves the way for better graphics support and performance improvements on Windows desktop targets. 🖥️🎮
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by loic-sharma and b-luk.
#191379 Fixes MSAA on the linux embedder.
Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) is back and working correctly on the Linux embedder! Your desktop apps will look crisp and have smooth edges once again. 🐧📐
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by robert-ancell.
#191389 Add FlViewRendererSubsurface
Introduced a new subsurface view renderer variant (FlViewRendererSubsurface) for Linux. This gives embedders more robust control over window surfaces, improving layering and rendering pipelines on desktop! 🖼️🔧
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by mattkae.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#191912 [flutter_tools] Gracefully handle Windows Application Control and security policy execution blocks
Running Flutter tools on highly-secured Windows environments just got easier. The tooling now detects and gracefully handles scripts or executables blocked by Windows Application Control policies. 🛡️💻
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by loic-sharma.
#187252 Support --[no-]adb-log-filtering CLI option
You can now bypass the default ADB log filtering when running apps on Android! Passing --no-adb-log-filtering ensures that you'll see every granular log message on your device, a huge win for deep debugging. 📱🔎
- Authored by Matt Boetger and reviewed by vashworth and camsim99.
#191360 [engine] Support UTF-8 paths in Windows filesystem and path APIs
Internationalizing paths on Windows is now fully supported. By wiring up UTF-8 processing in filesystem APIs, Flutter now gracefully handles paths with non-ASCII characters directly at the engine level! 📂🌐
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#191579 [flutter_tools] Add --force flag to flutter channel
Switching channels when you have local modifications is now a breeze! You can use flutter channel <name> --force to instantly discard uncommitted changes and forcefully change your Flutter SDK channel. 🔄🔥
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by dcharkes.
devtools/9968 Adds WebSocket support to the Network panel in Flutter's developer tools
No more opaque "SOCKET" connections in the Network panel. Now WebSockets are fully supported and give all the details you'd expect.
- Authored by Victowolf as part of Google Summer of Code and reviewed by srawlins and hannah-hyj. Congrats on a successful project, Yash!

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

shawnridgeway-google, for #191741, which resolved: Add prompt_suggestion icon to list of RTL mirroring icons..

@ibrahimcetin

August 28, 2026 to September 04, 2026

This week, 118 commits landed in the Flutter repository. A special welcome to our new contributors: @ibrahimcetin, @AllinGaming, @papmodern, @anazr9, @AfzalivE, @ik020! Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Framework & Core Libraries

#191528 feat: Add placeholder to DecorationImage
Introduces a placeholder feature for DecorationImage for smoother loading states. 🖼️⏳
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by justinmc and victorsanni.
#186246 Add FadeInImageTransition.fadeInOver to fade the image in over the placeholder
Adds a new transition option to cross-fade images seamlessly over their placeholders. 🌅✨
- Authored by Anas Saifi and reviewed by Piinks and victorsanni.
#185750 Add mouseCursor to RawScrollbar
Custom mouse cursors are now supported on RawScrollbar for better hover feedback. 🖱️🎨
- Authored by Soroush Yousefpour and reviewed by Piinks, dkwingsmt, and navaronbracke.

Engine & Performance

#190514 Fix DeleteSurrounding splitting UTF-16 surrogate pairs
Corrects text deletion logic so it no longer splits emojis and other UTF-16 surrogate pairs. 📝✂️
- Authored by Bui Anh Viet and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and LongCatIsLooong.
#192136 Fix issue where shapes rendered with gradient+blur+rotation end up incorrectly cut off
Resolves rendering artifacts where styled shapes would get abruptly clipped when rotated and blurred. 🎨✨
- Authored by b-luk and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#191838 Makes backdrop groups operate on the union.
Optimizes backdrop grouping to operate on their union, improving rendering performance and accuracy. 🖼️🏎️
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by b-luk.

Web Platform

#188820 [web] Fix VoiceOver child focus direction
Improves Web accessibility by ensuring VoiceOver correctly navigates child focus directions. 🌐🗣️
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by chunhtai and mdebbar.
#190486 [web] Anchor flt-semantics-host at 0,0 to fix WebKit semantics offset
Fixes subtle semantics offset issues in WebKit browsers by properly resetting the anchor. 🍏🔗
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by mdebbar.

Android Platform

#191204 [Android] Do not schedule engine frames on a detached FlutterJNI
Prevents the engine from scheduling frames after detachment, improving app lifecycle stability on Android. 🤖🛑
- Authored by Hamed and reviewed by gmackall and mboetger.

iOS Platform

#191062 [iOS] TextField should support typing accented words with external keyboard
Enhances iOS text entry by correctly supporting accented characters typed from external hardware keyboards. ⌨️🍏
- Authored by İbrahim Çetin and reviewed by justinmc and LongCatIsLooong.
#192139 Fixes OverlayPortal semantics bounds corruption
Resolves corrupted bounds for semantics within OverlayPortal, enhancing screen reader accuracy. 🗺️🗣️
- Authored by LouiseHsu and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong.

Desktop Platforms

#191479 [windows] Fix null-deref in HostWindowPopup::UpdatePosition (Fixes [Windows] Null pointer crash in HostWindowPopup::UpdatePosition (regression in 3.47.0) #191478)
Fixes a potential null-dereference crash when updating popup positions on Windows desktops. 🪟💥
- Authored by Kiran Ryali and reviewed by loic-sharma and mattkae.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#191990 [flutter_tools] Pause web server requests until initial compilation finishes
Improves the web developer experience by holding server requests during the initial compile, preventing premature load failures. 🌐⏳
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by nshahan.
#191554 Fix Android license detection for cmdline-tools 23.0+
Fixes the flutter doctor Android SDK license verification for newer cmdline-tools versions. ⚕️✅
- Authored by Irfan Khalid and reviewed by gmackall and mboetger.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

İbrahim Çetin, for #191062, which resolved: [iOS] TextField should support typing accented words with external keyboard.
Uros Radulovic, for #191130, which resolved: Fix nested scroll view fling crash.
Hamed, for #191204, which resolved: [Android] Do not schedule engine frames on a detached FlutterJNI.
Anas Saifi, for #186246, which resolved: Add FadeInImageTransition.fadeInOver to fade the image in over the placeholder.
Afzal Najam, for #189686, which resolved: [iOS] Preserve semantics parents after reparenting.
Irfan Khalid, for #191554, which resolved: Fix Android license detection for cmdline-tools 23.0+.

@Shawn-Yu-Dev

September 04, 2026 to September 11, 2026

This week, 98 commits landed in the Flutter repository toward the upcoming Flutter 3.48 release. A special welcome to our new contributors: @Shawn-Yu-Dev and @serhii-k! Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#192328 [web] Stop iOS auto-zoom by sizing semantic inputs at 16px
Sized semantic <input> and <textarea> elements to 16px to prevent iOS Safari from automatically zooming into the page when focused text fields are tapped. 📱✨
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by mdebbar.
#192266 Remove the accessibility evaluations feature flag
Removed the temporary isAccessibilityEvaluationsEnabled runtime flag and tool option now that accessibility evaluations are supported outside of debug mode by default. ♿🎉
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai.

Framework & Core Libraries

#191157 Add itemExtentBuilder support to ListView.separated
Added itemExtentBuilder support to ListView.separated, enabling dynamic, index-based item extent calculation alongside separators for optimized scrolling performance. 📜⚡
- Authored by Mairramer and reviewed by victorsanni.
#192356 [Linux] Add window rendering and drag controls
Introduced Linux-specific window controls enabling custom decorations, background coloring, transparent surfaces, and programmatic dragging and resizing. 🐧🪟
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by mattkae.
#191435 Add precacheTestImage to flutter_test and unskip web image tests
Introduced precacheTestImage in flutter_test to safely resolve image providers outside the FakeAsync zone and eliminate test hangs in web environments. 🖼️🧪
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.

Web Platform

#192516 [web] Keep ImageSource alive until Picture disposal
Retained ImageSource references until canvas picture disposal in CanvasKit and Skwasm, preventing premature DOM texture closure and black rendering artifacts. 🌐🎨
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.

Android Platform

#192502 [android] Isolate API-34 high contrast listener in AccessibilityBridge behind Api34Impl
Encapsulated Android 14 (API 34) contrast change listeners within an isolated static helper to prevent class verification warnings and crashes on older Android versions. 🤖🛡️
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger.

iOS Platform

#192465 ios: Return NO from run calls on a running/terminated engine*
Updated iOS FlutterEngine.run* methods to return NO and safely no-op when invoked on already running or terminated engine instances. 🍏🛑
- Authored by Chris Bracken and reviewed by knopp and gaaclarke.

Desktop Platforms

#185256 [macOS] Implement size to content regular and dialog windows
Added support for auto-sizing regular and dialog windows to their content on macOS and delayed window presentation until initial frame rendering. 💻✨
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by gaaclarke, loic-sharma, and mattkae.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#191573 fix: stop flutter create --platforms from dropping existing platforms
Fixed an issue where running flutter create --platforms on an existing project overwrote configured platforms in .metadata instead of appending new ones. 🛠️📦
- Authored by Shawn-Yu-Dev and reviewed by Gustl22, chingjun, and bkonyi.
#190153 feat(web): support --web-content-hash for entrypoint files
Added the --web-content-hash flag to flutter build web, generating content-hashed filenames for entrypoint scripts to enable seamless browser cache busting. 🌐🚀
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by mdebbar.
#191386 [web] Support local golden testing in flutter test
Enabled local golden file testing for Flutter Web within flutter test, downloading Skia Gold baselines and performing tolerance-aware pixel comparisons locally. 🏆🧪
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.
#192434 [flutter_tools] validate placeholder type in gen-l10n
Added validation for placeholder type strings in .arb files to catch invalid Dart type identifiers early and provide actionable error messages. 🌍🔍
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by dcharkes.
#192431 [flutter_tools] Gracefully handle EROFS and write-protected file system errors
Improved Flutter CLI resilience by catching and reporting clear, actionable error messages when encountering read-only file systems or sandbox permission restrictions. 🛡️💾
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by dcharkes.
#192483 [flutter_tools] Keep web loading bar visible until app starts
Ensured the web loading indicator remains visible until the Flutter application is actually compiled and running, rather than hiding prematurely upon debug client connection. ⏳🌐
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by goderbauer.
#191964 [native assets] Bump minimum iOS version from 13 to 15
Raised the minimum iOS deployment target for Dart Native Assets to iOS 15 in alignment with modern platform requirements. 📱⚙️
- Authored by serhii-k and reviewed by jmagman and okorohelijah.
#190786 Fix Wasm build cache mismatch in ResidentWebRunner and browser 404 fallbacks
Fixed unnecessary Wasm rebuilds during flutter run caused by compiler option mismatches, and added proper HTTP 404 responses for missing web assets. ⚡🌐
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by mdebbar.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Shawn-Yu-Dev, for #191573, which prevented flutter create --platforms from dropping existing platforms in .metadata.
serhii-k, for #191964, which updated the minimum iOS deployment target for Native Assets to iOS 15.

@artemkulyk

September 11, 2026 to September 18, 2026

I generated this whole report and forgot to post it last week. Here it is a week late. A special welcome to our new contributor @artemkulyk. Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Framework & Core Libraries

#192601 Wrap routing in FocusScope in WidgetsApp.router
Router-based apps (MaterialApp.router, CupertinoApp.router) were missing the Navigator focus scope that imperative-routing apps get, which broke focus and semantics for overlays like Autocomplete on the web. Focus behavior is now consistent no matter which routing API you use. 🎯
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by chunhtai.
#192954 Deprecate decoupled localizations, add dart fixes
The Material and Cupertino localization classes in flutter_localizations are now deprecated in favor of package:material_ui and package:cupertino_ui, with dart fix migrations included so the move is a one-command upgrade. A key step in the Material/Cupertino decoupling effort. 🧭
- Authored by Kate Lovett and reviewed by QuncCccccc and justinmc.

Cupertino (iOS-style)

#187568 Add dedicated rubber band spring for overscroll recovery in BouncingScrollPhysics
Overscroll snap-back now uses a dedicated rubber band spring, making bounce-back feel much closer to native iOS instead of the old, slower settle. Scrolling just got noticeably more polished. 🍎✨
- Authored by TtangKong and reviewed by dkwingsmt and victorsanni.

Engine & Performance

#191096 Fix square corner issue
Rounded clips (such as CupertinoSheetRoute) could render with square corners when combined with intermediate ink features and backdrop content. Corners stay round again, fixing a visible glitch in sheet-based UI. 🔵
- Authored by Andy Wolff and reviewed by b-luk and gaaclarke.
#192679 [Impeller] Avoid heap-allocating std::function captures per draw
UberSDF and circle contents were heap-allocating a callback capture on every single draw. Switching to capture-by-reference removes those per-draw allocations, trimming raster-thread overhead for free. ⚡
- Authored by artemkulyk and reviewed by b-luk and gaaclarke.

Web Platform

#191736 [WebParagraph] Fix text pixelation, glyph clipping, and snapping offsets to avoid subpixel raster caching
Web text now snaps to whole device pixels and gets antialiasing padding, eliminating blurry text and clipped descenders on CanvasKit while keeping raster caching effective. Crisper type on the web. 🔤
- Authored by Rusino and reviewed by mdebbar.
#190942 Reland "[web] Keep the keyboard up during an iOS caret drag"
On iOS 27, long-press-dragging the caret in a web text field would dismiss the keyboard mid-gesture. Text selection on mobile web now behaves the way users expect. ⌨️
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares.
#189506 Apply reversed axis flip by macOS on Web when scrolling with modifier keys
Shift-scrolling on macOS browsers was double-flipping the scroll axis, so web apps behaved differently from native macOS. Modifier-key scrolling is now consistent across platforms. 🖱️
- Authored by August and reviewed by mdebbar and flutter-zl.

Android Platform

#192259 Request unbuffered dispatch for platform view motion events after _PlatformViewGestureRecognizer rejects gesture
Platform views now ask Android for the unbuffered touch stream once the gesture arena hands the gesture back to Flutter, greatly improving the smoothness of scrolling over embedded native views — with no API change. 🏎️
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger.
#187251 Support activity-alias in Android launcher activity detection
Apps that expose their launcher through an activity-alias (common for dynamic app icons) are now detected and launched correctly by the tool, closing a long-standing issue from 2019. 🚀
- Authored by Matt Boetger and reviewed by gmackall.

iOS Platform

#189878 [iOS] Add Translate API support to Engine
Lands the engine-side plumbing for Apple's Translate API, paving the way for system translation of selected text in Flutter iOS apps. 🌍
- Authored by LouiseHsu and reviewed by hellohuanlin and cbracken.

Desktop Platforms

#192910 Fix black tooltips and popups on Wayland
Tooltips and popups rendered as black boxes on Wayland, and resizing a popup could even crash the compositor. Both the stale-buffer and destroyed-surface bugs are fixed, so Linux desktop apps look right again. 🐧
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by mattkae.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#192649 Bump Dart to 3.13, reformat, re-enable formatting check
The repo now builds against Dart 3.13 and the CI formatting check is back on after a repo-wide reformat, keeping the tree consistently formatted going forward. 🧹
- Authored by Kate Lovett and reviewed by chunhtai, jtmcdole, kenzieschmoll, and chingjun.
#192650 [tool] Defer app.restart until the app has finished starting
An app.restart arriving right after app.start could crash frontend_server and leave the app unable to launch. IDE-driven restarts now wait for startup to complete, removing a frustrating race. 🔁
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by bkonyi.
#192947 Migrate flutter create templates to material_ui
New projects generated by flutter create now import material_ui instead of flutter/material.dart, moving the default developer experience onto the decoupled Material package. 🏗️
- Authored by Kate Lovett and reviewed by bkonyi.
#188941 Suggest the -d flag after interactive device selection
After picking a device from the prompt, the tool now tells you exactly how to skip that prompt next time (-d <device id>). A small quality-of-life win requested since 2020. 💡
- Authored by Pranta Dutta and reviewed by chingjun and bkonyi.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributor this week! Thank you for your impactful contribution:

artemkulyk, for #192679, which removed per-draw heap allocations in Impeller's UberSDF and circle contents.

@shikharish

September 18, 2026 to September 25, 2026

This week, 115 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 15 in the Flutter website repository, and 8 in the Dart website repository. A special welcome to our new contributors: @shikharish, @nickolasdeluca, @nicolinx, @ahmadwyne, @diegolopezrm, @smocer, and @sanathusk! Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#193192 Reland "fix(widgets): dismiss open RawTooltip on Escape key (WCAG 1.4.13)"
Pressing the Escape key now dismisses any open RawTooltip (and Tooltip) before propagating to the focus tree, satisfying WCAG 1.4.13 (Content on Hover or Focus) so keyboard users can easily clear tooltips without triggering underlying shortcuts. ♿⌨️
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by navaronbracke.

Framework & Core Libraries

#191223 Cache the paint offset adjusted line metrics in TextPainter
TextPainter.computeLineMetrics now caches offset-adjusted line metrics instead of allocating a new list on every call, fixing broken up/down arrow caret navigation in center- and right-aligned single-line text fields while avoiding repeated allocations. 📝⚡
- Authored by Nickolas de Luca Alberton and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and LongCatIsLooong.
#185206 Fix: stop auto-scrolling during selection handle drag
Dragging a text selection handle no longer triggers caret auto-scrolling, eliminating viewport jumping and flickering when adjusting the top handle of a multi-line selection. 🪄
- Authored by Nicodemus Lin and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares, LongCatIsLooong, and haashem.

Engine & Performance

#190036 [Flutter GPU] Add 2D texture array support
Flutter GPU now supports TextureType.texture2DArray with per-layer slice addressing in Texture.overwrite and ColorAttachment.slice, unlocking multi-layer texture workflows for custom 3D and shader pipelines. 🎨🚀
- Authored by Brandon DeRosier and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#192128 Reland: Only render views that need to be rendered
Multi-view apps now skip compositing for views without dirty render objects, and Android external textures mark only their owning Texture render object as needing paint rather than scheduling a full engine frame rebuild. 🖥️⚡
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by chunhtai and loic-sharma.
#193176 [Impeller] Reserve content depth in the shared backdrop fast path
Grouping multiple BackdropFilter widgets with a shared backdropKey now properly reserves depth slots for the layer's child draws, fixing a debug engine crash when rendering content inside grouped backdrop layers. 🛡️
- Authored by Ahmad Wyne and reviewed by gaaclarke and andywolff.
#190186 [Impeller] Scope the broken mipmap workaround to the textures it affects
The Adreno Vulkan mipmap driver workaround is now scoped only to textures with blit-generated mip chains rather than disabling mip filtering globally, restoring full mipmap sampling for hand-uploaded textures such as Flutter GPU environment maps. 🔍✨
- Authored by Brandon DeRosier and reviewed by gaaclarke.

Web Platform

#193040 feat(web): resolve raw asset keys via content-hashed manifests and unhide --web-content-hash
flutter build web --web-content-hash is now publicly available and resolves raw asset keys at runtime through content-hashed manifests, giving web deployments reliable cache busting across all assets, fonts, and third-party plugins. 🌐📦
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by mdebbar.
#191647 [web] Report env(safe-area-inset-*) as FlutterView.viewPadding
Flutter Web now preserves viewport-fit=cover and reads CSS env(safe-area-inset-*) values into FlutterView.viewPadding, making SafeArea and MediaQuery.paddingOf work out of the box on notched mobile browsers and standalone PWAs. 📱🌊
- Authored by Diego López and reviewed by flutter-zl and mdebbar.

Android Platform

#193262 [Android 17] Updated Templates to AGP 9.3.1
Newly created Flutter projects now default to Android Gradle Plugin 9.3.1, Kotlin Gradle Plugin 2.4.20, and Gradle 9.5.0, ensuring out-of-the-box compatibility with Android 17 (API 37). 🤖⬆️
- Authored by jesswrd and reviewed by mboetger.
#192951 [android]: removes RegisterExternalTexture race condition
Fixes a startup crash on Android API 29+ with Impeller when a plugin synchronously registers an external texture or surface producer during engine attachment. 🔧
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by andywolff.

iOS Platform

#187167 [iOS] Rebind accessibility bridge after view controller changes
Add-to-app iOS integrations that detach a FlutterEngine from one FlutterViewController and attach it to another now preserve and rebind the accessibility bridge, keeping VoiceOver and Accessibility Inspector working across view controller transitions. 🍎♿
- Authored by smocer and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong, cbracken, and LouiseHsu.

Desktop Platforms

#193225 [win32] Implement hot restart for multi-window
Windows desktop apps using multi-window support now properly clean up and recreate views on hot restart while safely deferring HWND destruction. 🪟🔄
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by mattkae.
#192911 [Linux] Request a frame when a view starts rendering
The Linux embedder now explicitly schedules an engine frame as soon as a view is realized, preventing blank initial windows when frames were rendered before the view was ready to present. 🐧🖼️
- Authored by Robert Ancell and reviewed by mattkae.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#188947 Support DynamicLibrary.codeAsset in Flutter
Registers the runtime native-assets callbacks required by DynamicLibrary.codeAsset, enabling Dart FFI packages and Flutter apps to load bundled code assets directly via asset IDs across builds, tests, and hot reload/restart. 🧩⚙️
- Authored by Shikhar Soni and reviewed by bkonyi and dcharkes.
#192886 Update the plugin template to use Pigeon
flutter create -t plugin now scaffolds plugins with type-safe Pigeon interfaces instead of raw MethodChannel boilerplate, and updates generated iOS and macOS plugin tests to Swift Testing. 🐦🛠️
- Authored by stuartmorgan-g and reviewed by tarrinneal and robert-ancell.
#193279 fix: flutter analyze reporting the same issue multiple times
flutter analyze now retains only the latest diagnostics per file when the analysis server and analyzer plugins publish multiple updates, eliminating duplicate lints and errors in CLI output. 🧹
- Authored by Kishan Rathore and reviewed by srawlins and bkonyi.
#193006 [flutter_tools] Fix flutter doctor path validation for symlinked SDKs
flutter doctor now resolves symlinks and directory junctions when checking whether flutter and dart binaries belong to the active SDK, eliminating false-positive PATH warnings for package managers like Scoop. 🩺🔗
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by mattkae.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#13916 Add useInheritedMediaQuery removal breaking change entry and migration guide
Documents the removal of the deprecated useInheritedMediaQuery parameter across MaterialApp, CupertinoApp, and WidgetsApp, along with migration examples for affected apps and tests. 📖🧭
- Authored by Mohellebi Abdessalem and reviewed by sfshaza2 and justinmc.
flutter/website#13899 blog post: converting GenLatte app to fullstack Dart
Publishes a step-by-step walkthrough on converting a Flutter app to fullstack Dart, sharing models and logic between a Flutter client and a Dart backend. ☕📚
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by ericwindmill and jesskuras.
dart-lang/site-www#7379 Document dart run @[] syntax
Adds documentation and examples for running remote packages directly from pub.dev with dart run <package>@[<descriptor>] without needing to globally activate them first. 🎯📄
- Authored by Harsh Yadav and reviewed by sfshaza2, parlough, and kevmoo.
dart-lang/site-www#7521 Add winget instructions to Windows installation guide
Updates the Dart SDK Windows installation guide with winget commands for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling Dart (winget install --id=Google.DartSDK -e). 🪟📥
- Authored by Sanath Kumar U and reviewed by conooi.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Shikhar Soni, for #188947, which added support for DynamicLibrary.codeAsset in Flutter.
Nickolas de Luca Alberton, for #191223, which cached paint-offset-adjusted line metrics in TextPainter to fix vertical caret navigation in aligned single-line text fields.
Nicodemus Lin, for #185206, which stopped auto-scrolling while dragging text selection handles.
Ahmad Wyne, for #193176, which reserved content depth in Impeller's shared backdrop fast path.
Diego López, for #191647, which wired CSS env(safe-area-inset-*) into FlutterView.viewPadding on the web.
smocer, for #187167, which rebound the iOS accessibility bridge after FlutterViewController changes.
Sanath Kumar U, for dart-lang/site-www#7521, which added winget installation instructions to the Dart Windows setup guide.

@tjcGoogle

September 25, 2026 to October 2, 2026

This week, 129 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 12 in the Flutter website repository, and 10 in the Dart website repository. Highlights include clearer Widget Preview errors, Android security hardening, a long-standing multi-touch fix for Android platform views, and a refreshed set of animation docs. A special welcome to our new contributors: @tjcGoogle, @kaluli123123, @shikharish, @nickolasdeluca, and @khanak0509!

Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#193324 Add a semantics role for sliders
Sliders now expose a dedicated semantics role, so assistive technologies can identify and announce them correctly across platforms. ♿🎚️
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by ievdokdm.

Framework & Core Libraries

#191223 Fix vertical caret movement in centered and right-aligned text
TextPainter now caches its offset-adjusted line metrics instead of rebuilding the list on every call. This fixes up/down arrow caret navigation, which broke in non-left-aligned text fields because the editable treated every call as a layout change. ⌨️✨
- Authored by Nickolas de Luca Alberton and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and LongCatIsLooong.

Engine & Performance

#193113 Animated WebP and GIF frames with transparency now decode correctly
Animations whose first frame is opaque but later frames have alpha no longer fail with "Could not getPixels for frame 1". This resolves a five-year-old issue (#85831). 🖼️🎞️
- Authored by Kyrylo K. and reviewed by gaaclarke and b-luk.

Web Platform

#193180 Safer WasmGC opt-in for Firefox and Safari
Apps that opt into WebAssembly using wasmAllowList now get strict capability checks, and Firefox versions below 147 fall back to dart2js instead of loading an unsupported build. 🌐🛡️
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by mdebbar.

Android Platform

#190249 Refuse external setting of the engine entrypoint and cached engine arguments via Intents
A security-focused breaking change: other apps can no longer change a Flutter app's Dart entrypoint or engine arguments by sending it crafted Intents. Top notification and alarm plugins were checked for compatibility. 🔒🤖
- Authored by Camille Simon and reviewed by mboetger and reidbaker.
#190870 Reject engine configuration flags with prebuilt release binaries
flutter run --release --use-application-binary on Android now fails fast if engine configuration flags are also passed, closing another path for altering release engine behavior. See the breaking change docs. 🔐⚙️
- Authored by Camille Simon and reviewed by gmackall and mboetger.
#191631 Fix multi-touch coordinate mix-ups in Android platform views
When Android reused a released pointer ID, fingers could get each other's coordinates inside platform views like maps and web views. Pointers are now ordered by Android ID, so multi-finger gestures stay accurate. 👆🗺️
- Authored by kaluli123123 and reviewed by gmackall and mboetger.

Desktop Platforms

#189968 Preserve IME composing ranges on Windows
A one-field typo fix stops Windows from collapsing every composing range sent by the framework, which improves input for IME-based languages. 🪟🈶
- Authored by tjcGoogle and reviewed by loic-sharma and Renzo-Olivares.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#193005 Descriptive errors for unconstrained widget previews
Instead of cryptic "infinite width/height" assertions and cascading failures, Widget Preview now explains that previews are unconstrained by default and points you to @Preview(size: ...). 🔍💡
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by srawlins.
#191591 Plugins are now initialized in dependency order
Generated plugin registrants now order plugins by their dependency graph instead of alphabetically, so plugins that depend on others are registered after them. This resolves #99153. 🔌📈
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by vashworth.
#193459 Fix flutter drive -d chrome hanging
Web integration tests run with flutter drive on Chrome no longer hang forever waiting for a browser that WebDriver, not Flutter, is responsible for launching. 🚗🧪
- Authored by Mouad Debbar and reviewed by bkonyi.
#188947 Support DynamicLibrary.codeAsset in Flutter
Flutter now registers the native-assets callbacks behind DynamicLibrary.codeAsset, so you can load code assets from build hooks, with hot reload and hot restart working. 🧩⚡
- Authored by Shikhar Soni and reviewed by dcharkes and bkonyi.
#193435 Bundle data assets from hooks in flutter test
Data assets generated by build hooks are now available in widget tests, matching the behavior of flutter run and flutter build. 📦✅
- Authored by Daco Harkes and reviewed by bkonyi.
#192257 Include flutter.js.map in web builds
Web builds now ship the loader's source map, which removes a 404 in DevTools and lets error reporters resolve stack frames from flutter.js. 🗺️🐞
- Authored by Christoph Deil and reviewed by mdebbar and bkonyi.
#191972 Faster tool startup through lazy Android SDK discovery
Expensive Android SDK filesystem scans no longer run on every tool startup. They now run only when a command actually needs the SDK. 🏎️🛠️
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by camsim99 and jesswrd.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#13930 Docs updated for decoupling Material and Cupertino from the core framework
The architectural overview, UI pages, widget catalog, glossary, and code examples now reflect Material and Cupertino as separate packages. 📚🧱
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by justinmc, guidezpl, conooi, and Piinks.
flutter/website#13944 Refreshed animation guides and examples
Every page under /ui/animations, including the stale animation tutorial, has updated text, modernized patterns, and tested code excerpts. 🎬📝
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by lamek, victorsanni, and hannah-hyj.
flutter/website#13931 Breaking change guide for restricted Android engine configuration flags
Migration guidance for the Android engine-flag security changes above. 🤖📖
- Authored by Camille Simon and reviewed by lamek.
dart-lang/site-www#7531 Guide to authoring data-driven dart fix rules
Expanded docs show package owners how to ship data-driven fixes so users can migrate across breaking API changes automatically. 🔧🎯
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by parlough and keertip.
dart-lang/site-www#7544 Examples for abstract interface class
The class modifiers page and language tour now include copy-pasteable examples showing what abstract interface allows and prevents across libraries. 🎯📘
- Authored by Khanak Khandelwal and reviewed by conooi.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

tjcGoogle, for #189968, which preserved IME composing ranges on Windows.
kaluli123123, for #191631, which fixed multi-touch coordinate mix-ups in Android platform views.
Shikhar Soni, for #188947, which added DynamicLibrary.codeAsset support to Flutter.
Nickolas de Luca Alberton, for #191223, which fixed vertical caret movement in non-left-aligned text.
Khanak Khandelwal, for dart-lang/site-www#7544, which added abstract interface class examples to dart.dev.

@Jstuff36

October 2, 2026 to October 9, 2026

This week, 119 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 12 in the Flutter website repository, and 5 in the Dart website repository. Highlights include deprecating the in-framework Material and Cupertino libraries in favor of material_ui and cupertino_ui, soft hyphen (U+00AD) rendering support with a new Hyphens API, reduced iOS touch-to-present latency, satellite windows on Win32, and the Genkit Dart 1.0 release announcement. A special welcome to our new contributors: @Jstuff36, @CanArslanDev, @hoyahozz, and @apinilabs-pascal!

Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#191994 Surface accessibility violations in the widget inspector
The widget inspector now exposes accessibility evaluation results—such as minimum tap target and contrast violations—directly on inspected nodes for DevTools. ♿🔍
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai.
#190431 Rebuild a semantics fragment when its sibling conflict changes
Semantics fragments now schedule a rebuild whenever their sibling merge conflict state changes, preventing stale cached semantics nodes and broken assertions when sibling configurations update dynamically. 🌳♿
- Authored by Can Arslan and reviewed by victorsanni and chunhtai.
#192964 Propagate aria-label to the inner slider input on web
On Flutter web, SemanticSlider now forwards its aria-label to the inner <input type="range"> element rather than only the outer wrapper, giving screen readers like VoiceOver an accessible name for sliders. 🎚️🌐
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by flutter-zl.

Framework & Core Libraries

#192957 Deprecate package:flutter/material.dart and package:flutter/cupertino.dart
As part of decoupling the design libraries from the core framework, package:flutter/material.dart and package:flutter/cupertino.dart are now marked @Deprecated in favor of package:material_ui/material_ui.dart and package:cupertino_ui/cupertino_ui.dart, enabling automated dart fix migrations. 📦✨
- Authored by Kate Lovett and reviewed by justinmc and chunhtai.
#185152 Support soft hyphen (U+00AD) rendering with a Hyphens API
Line breaks that fall on a soft hyphen (U+00AD) now render a visible - by default on native platforms, and a new Hyphens enum (Hyphens.manual and Hyphens.hidden) on Text, RichText, EditableText, and ParagraphStyle lets you control hyphen visibility. ✍️📖
- Authored by David Bebawy and reviewed by Piinks, stuartmorgan-g, Renzo-Olivares, mdebbar, justinmc, chunhtai, and LongCatIsLooong.
#185239 Fix multiline EditableText selection highlighting width
Multiline text fields now default to BoxWidthStyle.tight for selection highlights, preventing selected lines from visually stretching to match trailing whitespace on adjacent lines. 📝🎯
- Authored by Anas Saifi and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and LongCatIsLooong.
#193575 Fix null _nextFrame crash in MultiFrameImageStreamCompleter when re-adding a listener
Removing the last listener from an animated image while a frame callback is pending and re-adding a listener before the frame fires no longer dereferences a null _nextFrame. 🖼️🛡️
- Authored by Justin White and reviewed by justinmc and chunhtai.
#193476 Allow resetting test invariants in addTearDown
Widget tests can now restore modified framework globals (such as debugDefaultTargetPlatformOverride) inside addTearDown callbacks without triggering post-test invariant assertions. 🧪✅
- Authored by Tong Mu and reviewed by justinmc.

Engine & Performance

#191444 Clean up VSync infrastructure and reduce iOS touch-to-present latency
Streamlining pointer dispatch and VSync scheduling in the engine cuts touch-to-present latency on iOS by a full frame. ⚡📱
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by cbracken.
#193133 Flip content on Windows to avoid full-screen renders
Hooking into an ANGLE swapchain optimization removes a temporary full-screen texture and render pass on Windows, allowing MSAA to resolve directly into the swapchain. 🪟🚀
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by b-luk and andywolff.

Web Platform

#193744 Grow the iOS web view when the browser toolbar collapses
On iOS browsers, full-page Flutter web apps now expand with visualViewport.height when the address bar collapses instead of leaving a white strip at the bottom of the screen. 📱🌐
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by mdebbar.
#189835 Stop percent-decoding URLs written to browser history
The web engine no longer calls Uri.decodeComponent on route URLs before updating browser history, preserving percent-encoded characters like %2F and %3F across page refreshes and shared links. 🔗🧭
- Authored by apinilabs-pascal and reviewed by yjbanov and mdebbar.

Android Platform

#193813 Raise minimum Android Gradle Plugin version to 9.1.1
flutter_tools and project templates now require Android Gradle Plugin 9.1.1 or newer, ensuring compatibility with compileSdk 37 and modern Android build toolchains. 🤖🛠️
- Authored by jesswrd and reviewed by reidbaker.

iOS Platform

#191781 Restore Flutter text focus after native responder recovery on iOS
When UIKit temporarily resigns and restores the native text responder (such as during a quick app switch on iOS 26), the engine now notifies the framework so the active TextField regains focus and continues receiving keyboard input. ⌨️🍎
- Authored by Jeongho and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and LongCatIsLooong.

Desktop Platforms

#192939 Implement satellite windows on Win32
Adds HostWindowSatellite support for Win32 desktop apps, enabling fixed-size and content-sized satellite windows that position themselves relative to their parent window. 🪟🛰️
- Authored by Matthew Kosarek and reviewed by loic-sharma.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#193748 Add BuildService and flutter build support for tool extensions
Tool extensions can now register custom flutter build <target> subcommands and execute builds over RPC through the new BuildService protocol. 🔧🧱
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by loic-sharma.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#13966 Add Genkit Dart 1.0 announcement blog post
Announces the stable release of Genkit Dart 1.0 for building full-stack, type-safe AI features in Dart and Flutter apps. ✨🤖
- Authored by Chris Ray Gill and reviewed by sfshaza2.
flutter/website#13960 Refresh the animation cookbook recipes
Updates the animation cookbook recipes—covering page route transitions, physics simulations, opacity animations, and staggered menus—with current code standards and refreshed explanations. 🎬📚
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by parlough.
flutter/website#13957 Refresh the forms pages in the cookbook
Modernizes the forms cookbook guides on validation, focus management, and text field handling with updated examples and documentation standards. 📋📝
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by justinmc, conooi, and Renzo-Olivares.
dart-lang/site-www#7556 Improve discoverability of JS object literal constructors in interop docs
Adds a dedicated section to the JS interop guide showing how to declare named-parameter external constructors on extension types to create plain JavaScript object literals. 🌐📘
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by sfshaza2.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Justin White, for #193575, which fixed a null _nextFrame crash in MultiFrameImageStreamCompleter when re-adding a listener.
Can Arslan, for #190431, which fixed semantics fragment rebuilds when sibling conflicts change.
Jeongho, for #191781, which restored Flutter text focus after native responder recovery on iOS.
apinilabs-pascal, for #189835, which stopped percent-decoding URLs written to browser history on web.

October 16, 2026 to October 23, 2026

This week, 126 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 5 in the Flutter website repository, and 9 in the Dart website repository. Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Material Design

#194256 Make the Material fallback theme follow defaultTargetPlatform
Widgets with no Theme ancestor now get a fallback theme that tracks the current defaultTargetPlatform, instead of freezing on whichever platform was active the first time a theme was looked up. This fixes adaptive behavior such as selection controls, toolbars, and cursors under platform overrides, and it removes a source of test-order-dependent failures. 🎨🧪
- Authored by Renzo Olivares and reviewed by justinmc and dkwingsmt.

Accessibility

#193372 Do not send traversal child semantics nodes to engine when traversal parent is missing
Widgets that use an OverlayPortal, like the Material Slider, no longer send orphaned semantics nodes to the engine during a route's fade-in transition. Screen readers now get a consistent semantics tree on pushed routes. ♿️
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by QuncCccccc.
#194393 [web] Don't remove the a11y placeholder mid-gesture when semantics turns on
On mobile web, when an app turns semantics on while a drag is in progress, the accessibility placeholder now stays until the gesture ends, so the drag's pointerup is no longer lost. 👆🌐
- Authored by Mouad Debbar and reviewed by flutter-zl.

Framework & Core Libraries

#194892 Only call setApplicationLocale for application-level Localizations
Nested Localizations and Localizations.override widgets no longer overwrite the app-wide locale. This keeps <html lang> on web and the fallback accessibility locale on Android and iOS correct. 🌍
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by chunhtai.
#194669 Do not derive a decode size of 0 for very thin images
Very thin images, such as a 4000×1 PNG with cacheWidth: 100, used to fail with "Codec failed to produce an image" because the derived height rounded down to 0. They now decode correctly with cacheWidth/cacheHeight and ResizeImage. 🖼️
- Authored by YeungKC and reviewed by victorsanni and harryterkelsen.

Engine & Performance

#194314 Reland square corners fix
Clipped backdrop filters keep their rounded corners again, fixing a regression where blurred, clipped regions rendered with square corners. This reland comes with the CI flakiness that caused the original revert already resolved. 🔲➡️🔘
- Authored by Andy Wolff and reviewed by gaaclarke and flar.

Web Platform

#194339 [web] Render soft hyphens on CanvasKit
Hyphens now works on CanvasKit, the default renderer for flutter build web, so text containing soft hyphens (U+00AD) shows a hyphen at line breaks, matching native and Skwasm. ✂️📝
- Authored by David Bebawy and reviewed by mdebbar and LongCatIsLooong.

Android Platform

#194591 [Android] Fix HCPP frame synchronization when multiple frames run before a Choreographer traversal
Hybrid Composition++ now presents frames in order instead of overwriting pending ones, which makes scrolling with multiple platform views much smoother. 🧈📱
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger.

iOS Platform

#192599 [ios]disable user interaction for visual effect view
The iOS visual effect view behind blurs is purely visual, so it no longer intercepts touches meant for the content beneath it. 🍏👆
- Authored by hellohuanlin and reviewed by Hari-07.

Desktop Platforms

#194390 macOS: Implement Satellite window
macOS gains the "satellite" window type from Flutter's multi-window work, for auxiliary windows attached to a parent window. 🪟🛰️
- Authored by Matej Knopp and reviewed by mattkae.
#191140 feat: Expose PostPlatformThreadTask and IsPlatformThread to PluginRegistrarWindows
Windows plugins can now check whether they are on the platform thread and post work to it. This is essential for sending platform channel events from the background threads most Windows APIs call back on. 🧵🪟
- Authored by August and reviewed by mattkae and loic-sharma.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#194771 [flutter_tools] Add --[no-]extensions and FLUTTER_NO_EXTENSIONS safe mode
A new global --no-extensions flag and the FLUTTER_NO_EXTENSIONS=1 environment variable let you bypass tool extension discovery entirely: a safe mode for the upcoming flutter tool extensions system. 🛡️🧰
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by chingjun.
#194867 [flutter_tools] Exit cleanly when Windows path exceeds MAX_PATH (OS Error 206)
Instead of crashing with an unhandled exception when a path exceeds Windows' 260-character limit, flutter now exits with a clear message telling you to move your SDK or project to a shorter path. 🪟📏
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by jyameo.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#13996 Add blog post: AI makes it easy to migrate. Flutter makes it easy to scale.
A new blog post recaps the FlutterCon Berlin 2026 keynote by Carlos Mendonça and Emma Twersky on using AI to migrate to Flutter and scale afterwards. ✍️🤖
- Authored by Jess K and reviewed by conooi and CarlosMendonca.
flutter/website#13994 Add release notes for DevTools 2.61.0
The DevTools 2.61.0 release notes are live. Highlights include WebSocket support in the Network profiler, widget source paths in the Inspector, and pinnable classes in the Memory view. 🛠️📋
- Authored by Sam Rawlins and reviewed by kenzieschmoll and parlough.
flutter/website#13881 Add auto-generated table of contents to blog posts
Long-form posts on the Flutter blog now get a collapsible "On this page" table of contents, and heading anchors no longer land hidden behind the fixed header. 🧭
- Authored by Manuel Santos Souza and reviewed by parlough.
dart-lang/site-www#7539 Make linter rule search smarter
Linter rule search on dart.dev no longer requires an exact name: spaces now match underscores, and rule descriptions are searched too. 🔍
- Authored by Khanak Khandelwal and reviewed by parlough.
dart-lang/site-www#7566 Update WebAssembly compilation docs for Dart 3.14
The WebAssembly docs now cover the Wasm proposals dart2wasm targets (with minimum browser versions), --standalone for WASI runtimes like Wasmtime, and related conditional imports. 🕸️⚙️
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by kevmoo.
dart-lang/site-www#7557 Account for the release of macOS 27.
Dart's supported macOS versions now include macOS 27 "Golden Gate" and drop macOS 14 Sonoma. 🍎
- Authored by Ryan Macnak and reviewed by conooi and parlough.

@mohamedalsamrai

October 22, 2026 to October 29, 2026

This week, 81 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 22 in the Flutter website repository, and 7 in the Dart website repository. A special welcome to our new contributors: @mohamedalsamrai, @ChristophyBarth, @r0g18, @Wreos, and @meg4cyberc4t! Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#194586 [web] Expose mixed tristate checkboxes as aria-checked="mixed"
Web tristate checkboxes in a null state now set aria-checked="mixed" instead of false, allowing screen readers to announce indeterminate states accurately. 🌐♿
- Authored by Christophy Barth and reviewed by flutter-zl and hannah-hyj.

Framework & core libraries

#195207 Add real WebDriver pointer actions to package:integration_test on the web
Adds native browser pointer actions via WebDriver to web integration tests, enabling authentic clicks, hovers, and drags that follow browser DOM hit testing over platform view iframes. 🖱️🧪
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.

Engine & performance

#193805 [Flutter GPU] Compute shaders on Metal and Vulkan
Adds compute shader support to Flutter GPU on Metal and Vulkan backends, introducing shader storage buffers, compute pipelines, and dispatch passes for GPU computations. ⚡🎮
- Authored by Brandon DeRosier and reviewed by gaaclarke.
#194615 [engine] Honor targetWidth/targetHeight for animated images
Multi-frame image decoders now honor target dimensions when decoding animated GIF, WebP, and APNG images, reducing memory usage when displaying resized animations. 🖼️📉
- Authored by Mohammed Al-Samarraie and reviewed by b-luk and gaaclarke.

Web platform

#195187 [web] Capture pointers to the Flutter view so drags survive platform view iframes
Captures active pointer events to the Flutter view during drag gestures, preventing drags from freezing or jumping when the cursor passes over embedded iframe platform views. 🌐🎯
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.
#194785 [web] Remove service worker loader and --pwa-strategy
Removes the legacy service worker loader and deprecated --pwa-strategy flag, modernizing web bootstrapping and pointing developers to web caching configurations. 🕸️🧹
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by mdebbar.

Android platform

#194411 [Android][a11y] Set visibleToUser=false for hidden semantics nodes
Sets visibleToUser=false in the Android accessibility implementation for hidden semantics nodes, preventing screen readers like TalkBack from focusing on content scrolled behind pinned headers. 🤖📱
- Authored by LouiseHsu and reviewed by camsim99.
#194899 Update TLHC PlatformViewWrapper offset without requesting layout
Updates texture layer hybrid composition (TLHC) wrapper offsets directly without calling requestLayout(), avoiding redundant layout passes and display list redraws during scrolling. ⚡🏎️
- Authored by Gray Mackall and reviewed by mboetger.

iOS platform

#194614 [a11y] Fixes SnackBar showing more Voice Control labels than expected
Excludes internal dismiss and scroll actions on SnackBar from generating extra Voice Control labels on iOS, keeping voice navigation overlays uncluttered. 📱🗣️
- Authored by LouiseHsu and reviewed by LongCatIsLooong.
#195199 [iPhone Duo] Use the correct UIScreen to report the display size and update when fold/unfold
Resolves the active display screen rather than defaulting to UIScreen.mainScreen on dual-screen iOS devices, reporting accurate viewport dimensions across fold and unfold transitions. 📱📐
- Authored by hellohuanlin and reviewed by cbracken.

Tooling & developer experience

#194992 [widget_preview] Do not leak ListTileTheme into previewed widgets
Prevents the preview environment's outer ListTileTheme from leaking into previewed child widgets, preserving the intended styling of individual components. 🔍🎨
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by srawlins.
#194453 [flutter_tools] Explain unsupported Android AOT builds on Linux arm64 hosts
Replaces raw missing-binary exceptions with an informative error message explaining that Android AOT release compilation is unsupported on Linux arm64 hosts, linking the upstream tracking issue. 🐧🛠️
- Authored by David Bebawy and reviewed by reidbaker and mboetger.
#194064 [flutter_tools] Contain web asset server path resolution to its search roots
Resolves incoming HTTP request paths strictly within configured search roots in web asset servers, preventing request paths from resolving outside the asset root. 🛡️🌐
- Authored by r0g18 and reviewed by harryterkelsen and mdebbar.
#191644 [iOS/MacOS] Warn when using deprecated framework build commands
Adds deprecation warnings when invoking flutter build ios-framework or flutter build macos-framework, guiding developers to use standard framework workflows. ⚠️🍏
- Authored by Aleksandr Lozhkovoi and reviewed by okorohelijah, hellohuanlin, and vashworth.

Documentation and website

flutter/website#13982 Overhaul Flutter installation docs and simplify site navigation
Reorganizes the installation pages into a single installation guide with side-by-side quick setup and manual paths, simplifying navigation for new developers. 📚🧭
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by parlough, sfshaza2, and jesskuras.
flutter/website#13980 Expand Firebase page with setup, Auth, and database guides
Expands the Firebase documentation with end-to-end setup guides, configuration steps via FlutterFire CLI, and code examples for authentication and Firestore integration. 🔥📖
- Authored by Jess K and reviewed by abdallahshaban557.
flutter/website#13986 [web] Update Flutter 3.50 web caching, Wasm, and viewport-fit docs
Adds documentation for web asset content hashing (--web-content-hash), WebAssembly browser compatibility requirements, and updated initialization settings for Flutter 3.50. 🌐⚡
- Authored by Kevin Moore and reviewed by conooi.
flutter/website#13988 Add migration guide for WidgetSpan ordering in RTL text
Publishes a migration guide for right-to-left (RTL) text layout fixes in Flutter 3.50, explaining how to remove legacy workarounds for WidgetSpan ordering. 🔄✍️
- Authored by Igor Molchanov and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares and conooi.
flutter/website#13912 Final push for SwiftPM updates to website
Updates Flutter documentation across UIKit, package authoring, and app extension guides to reflect Swift Package Manager support for iOS and macOS. 📦🍎
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by parlough.
dart-lang/site-www#7576 Add Developer Knowledge MCP server to Build with AI docs
Documents the Developer Knowledge MCP server on the Dart website, guiding developers on connecting AI coding tools to official Dart documentation. 🤖💡
- Authored by Jess K and reviewed by Jashimuddin45bd and conooi.
dart-lang/site-www#7568 Improve changelog version range filtering, search, and facet counts
Adds a version range selector, preset filter chips, and debounced text search with query term highlighting to the Dart changelog page. 🔎📋
- Authored by Jess K and reviewed by parlough and kevmoo.

First-time contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Mohammed Al-Samarraie, for #194615, which resolved: [engine] Honor targetWidth/targetHeight for animated images.
Christophy Barth, for #194586, which resolved: [web] Expose mixed tristate checkboxes as aria-checked="mixed".
r0g18, for #194064, which resolved: [flutter_tools] Contain web asset server path resolution to its search roots.
Aleksandr Lozhkovoi, for #191644, which resolved: [iOS/MacOS] Warn when using deprecated framework build commands.
Igor Molchanov, for flutter/website#13988, which resolved: Add migration guide for WidgetSpan ordering in RTL text.

@prasad2512

October 30, 2026 to November 06, 2026

This week, 143 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 9 in the Flutter website repository, and 8 in the Dart website repository.
A special welcome to our new contributors: @prasad2512, @Mathvdias, @M0n7y5, @xianjianlf2, @suryaKommana2662!
Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Accessibility

#195445 [VPAT] Expose a semantics text field value while it is not being edited
On the web, text fields that have never been focused, such as a disabled field with prefilled text, now expose their value to screen readers instead of reading as empty. Obscured and autofill-owned fields are still skipped. ♿️📝
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by hannah-hyj.
#195829 [A11y] Send un-merged SemanticsNodes in the same update that first references them
When a node stops merging its descendants, the framework now sends those children in the same semantics update that references them. This removes a framework-side trigger of an embedder crash. ♿️🛡️
- Authored by Hannah Jin and reviewed by chunhtai.
#195618 [web] Hide synthetic autofill inputs from assistive technology
With semantics enabled, the hidden inputs Flutter web keeps for browser autofill no longer show up to screen readers and checkers like axe as extra unlabeled text boxes holding the user's input. 🙈♿️
- Authored by zhongliugo and reviewed by hannah-hyj.

Framework & Core Libraries

#194670 Add PlatformDispatcher.onAlwaysUse24HourFormatChanged callback
PlatformDispatcher now has a callback for when the user switches the system 24-hour time setting while the app is running. This lays the engine groundwork for time pickers and formatted times to update live. 🕐
- Authored by Prasad Navale and reviewed by chunhtai and victorsanni.
#190630 feat(flutter_test): add startHover and startHoverAt helper to WidgetTester
Simulating a mouse hover in widget tests is now a one-liner with tester.startHover and tester.startHoverAt, instead of manually creating and moving a mouse gesture. 🖱️🧪
- Authored by Matheus Dias and reviewed by victorsanni and justinmc.
#194478 Fix gap flipping when dragging variable height reorderable items
Dragging an item in a reorderable list with mixed item heights no longer makes the drop gap flicker back and forth between positions, so reorder animations stay stable. ↕️✨
- Authored by surya_kommana and reviewed by Renzo-Olivares.
#194859 Fix ListWheelScrollView null check error when it reads itemIndex before content dimensions are set
ListWheelScrollView no longer throws a null check error on first layout when a child, such as an Image, reads the selected item. Images in the wheel now appear right away instead of only after scrolling. 🎡🐛
- Authored by YeungKC and reviewed by victorsanni and Renzo-Olivares.

Engine & Performance

#195505 Deprecates setFloat API
The index-based FragmentShader.setFloat is now deprecated in favor of setting uniforms by name with getUniformFloat, getUniformVec2, and related methods, which are safer and easier to read. 🎨⚠️
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by walley892 and jtmcdole.
#195881 Expose engineId on native plugin bindings and registrars on Android, iOS, and macOS
Native plugin bindings and registrars now expose the engine ID that matches PlatformDispatcher.instance.engineId in Dart. FFI and JNI plugins can now set up and clean up per-engine native state without access to the engine itself. 🔌🧩
- Authored by Tarrin Neal and reviewed by Piinks, knopp, gmackall, loic-sharma, and hellohuanlin.

Web Platform

#195854 [web] Support FragmentShader.getImageSampler on CanvasKit and Skwasm
Web apps can now bind image samplers to fragment shaders by name on both CanvasKit and Skwasm, matching native platforms. Before, this threw UnsupportedError. 🖼️🌐
- Authored by Harry Terkelsen and reviewed by mdebbar.

Android Platform

#194764 [Android] Log why Impeller falls back to OpenGLES
When Impeller falls back from Vulkan to OpenGLES, it now logs exactly why, whether it's an emulator, a known bad SoC or driver, or an old vendor SDK. Developers and triagers no longer have to guess. 🔍🤖
- Authored by M0N7Y5 and reviewed by walley892 and gaaclarke.
#192286 [Android] Replay predictive back state for retained engines
Apps that keep a FlutterEngine alive across Activities no longer lose Flutter's back handling when a new Activity attaches, so system and predictive back gestures are routed to Flutter correctly again. 🔙📱
- Authored by Mark Xian and reviewed by gmackall and mboetger.

Desktop Platforms

#192432 [flutter_tools] Detect macOS TCC permission crashes and provide diagnostic guidance
When a macOS app run from an IDE or terminal crashes because macOS attributed a camera, microphone, or similar permission request to the parent process, flutter run now explains what happened and how to fix it instead of showing a bare SIGABRT. 🍎🩺
- Authored by Ben Konyi and reviewed by vashworth.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#194934 [flutter_tools] Stream web dev server proxy responses instead of buffering them
Responses proxied through web_dev_config.yaml rules are now streamed chunk by chunk, so server-sent events and NDJSON streams arrive in real time during flutter run -d chrome instead of being stuck in an 8 KB buffer. 🌊⚡
- Authored by Ishaq Hassan and reviewed by bkonyi and mdebbar.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#13995 Add Native interop documentation section (Pigeon, FFIgen, JNIgen, dart:ffi)
docs.flutter.dev has a new top-level Native interop section, with a decision tree for choosing between Pigeon, FFIgen, JNIgen, and dart:ffi, plus a guide for each tool. 📚🔗
- Authored by Kevin Lamenzo and reviewed by mariamhas, sfshaza2, goderbauer, tarrinneal, and liamappelbe.
flutter/website#14024 Add DevTools 2.62.0 release notes
The release notes for DevTools 2.62.0 are now published on docs.flutter.dev. 🛠️📝
- Authored by John Ryan and reviewed by parlough.
dart-lang/site-www#7586 Document --[no-]deprecated-js-interop guardrail and legacy web library deprecation for Dart 3.14
dart.dev now documents the new --no-deprecated-js-interop flag in Dart 3.14, which stops builds that use legacy web libraries like package:js, and updates the guides to use dart:js_interop. 🚧🌐
- Authored by Muthu Ganesh and reviewed by kevmoo and conooi.
dart-lang/site-www#7584 Document the dart migrate command-line tool
A new guide covers the dart migrate command in Dart 3.14: how to preview and apply package migrations to a newer SDK, and when to use it instead of dart fix. 🚚🎯
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by kallentu and sfshaza2.
dart-lang/site-www#7577 Document Dart 3.14 dart:js_interop additions
The JS interop guides now cover the latest dart:js_interop additions through Dart 3.14, including JSIterable, JSIterator, and an expanded table of Dart-to-JS and JS-to-Dart conversions. 🔄📘
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by kevmoo and lamek.
dart-lang/site-www#7583 Mark dart:mirrors as deprecated in documentation
dart.dev now marks the dart:mirrors library as deprecated, so developers know to move away from runtime reflection. 🪞⚠️
- Authored by Michael Thomsen and reviewed by kevmoo.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Prasad Navale, for #194670, which resolved: Add PlatformDispatcher.onAlwaysUse24HourFormatChanged callback.
Matheus Dias, for #190630, which resolved: feat(flutter_test): add startHover and startHoverAt helper to WidgetTester.
M0N7Y5, for #194764, which resolved: [Android] Log why Impeller falls back to OpenGLES.
Mark Xian, for #192286, which resolved: [Android] Replay predictive back state for retained engines.
surya_kommana, for #194478, which resolved: Fix gap flipping when dragging variable height reorderable items.

@JIWON1923

November 06, 2026 to November 13, 2026

This week, 130 commits landed in the Flutter repository, 49 in the Flutter packages repository, 32 in the Flutter website repository, and 13 in the Dart website repository.
A special welcome to our new contributors: @JIWON1923, @mitryp!
Below are the notable changes that landed this week:

Material Design

flutter/packages#13338 [material_ui] Add Material motion springs
material_ui now provides standard SpringDescription constants generated from Material 3 Expressive motion tokens (md.sys.motion.spring.*), bringing official M3 spring physics curves to animations. 🌀✨
- Authored by Qun Cheng and reviewed by elliette.

Cupertino (iOS-style)

flutter/packages#13419 [cupertino_ui] Dim disabled CupertinoSlider controls
Disabled CupertinoSlider controls now render with dimmed opacity matching native iOS behavior, providing clearer visual feedback when slider interactions are turned off. 🎚️🍎
- Authored by Aleksandr Lozhkovoi and reviewed by dkwingsmt and pjkammer.

Accessibility

#195731 [iOS a11y] Use a real UIScrollView as a11y scrollable container
On iOS, scrollable semantics items are now hosted within a real UIScrollView container, ensuring VoiceOver and Voice Control correctly clip off-screen elements to the scroll viewport and navigate items reliably. ♿️📱
- Authored by LongCatIsLooong and reviewed by chunhtai.

Framework & Core Libraries

#194665 Add ResizeImagePolicy.cover
ResizeImage now supports ResizeImagePolicy.cover, allowing images to decode at the minimum size needed to cover a target box while preserving aspect ratio, slashing memory consumption without blurriness. 🖼️📉
- Authored by YeungKC and reviewed by victorsanni.
#191287 Allow SliverCrossAxisGroup children to lay out with zero cross-axis extent instead of asserting
SliverCrossAxisGroup now gracefully accommodates child slivers that lay out with zero cross-axis extent instead of throwing an assertion error, keeping collapsible multi-sliver layouts stable. 📜🛡️
- Authored by Emmanuel LEFEBVRE DIBON and reviewed by victorsanni.

Engine & Performance

#195345 Add ParagraphStyle.hyphenCharacter to dart:ui
dart:ui now exposes ParagraphStyle.hyphenCharacter, giving developers fine-grained control over the character used when text breaks across lines during hyphenation. 🔤📝
- Authored by David Bebawy and reviewed by gaaclarke and mdebbar.
#195716 [Impeller] Reland clipped BackdropFilter square corners fix
Impeller now correctly respects rounded and arbitrary clip shapes when rendering BackdropFilter widgets, preventing visual artifacts where blur effects previously showed square corners. 🎨✨
- Authored by Andy Wolff and reviewed by gaaclarke and flar.

Web Platform

#195958 [web] Fix decoding of still AVIF images on Chrome
Flutter Web now reliably decodes single-frame AVIF images on Chrome by properly accommodating Chrome's bitmap decoder behavior for non-animated AVIF files. 🌐🖼️
- Authored by Teddy Yeung and reviewed by navaronbracke and harryterkelsen.

Android Platform

#191453 Fix ime insets animation jump
Android apps now animate software keyboard insets smoothly without a jarring height jump when the keyboard opens or dismisses. ⌨️📱
- Authored by Matt Boetger and reviewed by jesswrd, gmackall, and camsim99.

#196069 [android]: prewarms shaders when the context is created
On Android, Impeller prewarms critical shaders immediately upon graphics context creation rather than waiting for first draw, reducing initial startup jank. ⚡🚀
- Authored by gaaclarke and reviewed by walley892.

iOS Platform

#196287 iOS: Recomposite platform views only if their parameters change
Embedded iOS platform views are now recomposited only when their underlying view parameters change, significantly reducing compositing overhead and CPU time for static native views. 🍎🏎️
- Authored by Chris Bracken and reviewed by hellohuanlin.

Desktop Platforms

#196002 Replace type-specific window widgets with a single Window widget
Type-specific window widgets (DialogWindow, TooltipWindow, PopupWindow, SatelliteWindow) have been unified into a single Window widget accepting any BaseWindowController, streamlining multi-window architecture. 🪟💻
- Authored by Matthew Kosarek and reviewed by loic-sharma.
#192105 [Windows] Fix Space input after Alt+Space with previous Microsoft IME
Pressing Space immediately after Alt+Space on Windows with older Microsoft IME versions now reliably enters space characters instead of dropping key events or misbehaving. 🪟⌨️
- Authored by Soi (Jiwon Lee) and reviewed by mattkae and loic-sharma.
#178712 Add support for riscv64 desktop linux engine
Flutter's desktop Linux engine now supports the riscv64 architecture, expanding Flutter application support to 64-bit RISC-V devices. 🐧⚡
- Authored by Valentin Haudiquet and reviewed by loic-sharma, robert-ancell, and jtmcdole.

Tooling & Developer Experience

#194816 [gen_l10n] Add use-explicit-plural-values option
gen_l10n introduces --use-explicit-plural-values, allowing generated localization code to provide dedicated arguments for zero, one, and other counts when formatting complex plural strings. 🌐🗣️
- Authored by Dmytro Popov and reviewed by chingjun and bkonyi.

Packages & Plugins

flutter/packages#13576 [pigeon] Support multi-engine Native Interop registration and instance-aware unregistration
Pigeon now supports registering and cleanly unregistering Native Interop bindings across multiple Flutter engine instances, ensuring proper lifecycle management in multi-engine applications. 🔌🧩
- Authored by Tarrin Neal and reviewed by stuartmorgan, bparrishMines, and Piinks.
flutter/packages#11909 [various] Support SVG filters (blur, offset, feMerge)
vector_graphics and flutter_svg now support core SVG filter primitives including Gaussian blur, offset, and merge operations, unlocking drop shadows and blur effects in vector assets. 🎨✨
- Authored by Edwin Hollen and reviewed by gaaclarke, flar, and walley892.

Documentation and Website

flutter/website#14046 Add What's new in Flutter 3.50 release blog post
The official "What's new in Flutter 3.50" release blog post is now published on docs.flutter.dev, highlighting framework updates, engine enhancements, and migration paths. 📢🚀
- Authored by Kevin Lamenzo and reviewed by parlough and sfshaza2.
flutter/website#14065 Native interop blog post
A new comprehensive guide and blog post dives into Flutter's native interop ecosystem, guiding developers through Pigeon, FFIgen, JNIgen, and direct dart:ffi. 📚🔌
- Authored by Shams Zakhour and reviewed by conooi and mariamhas.
dart-lang/site-www#7600 Announcing Dart 3.14 blog post
The Dart 3.14 release announcement is now live on dart.dev, covering language evolutions, expanded WebAssembly capabilities, and core library updates. 🎯📝
- Authored by Connie Ooi and reviewed by lamek.

First-time Contributors

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new contributors this week! Thank you for your impactful contributions:

Soi (Jiwon Lee), for #192105, which resolved: [Windows] Fix Space input after Alt+Space with previous Microsoft IME.
Dmytro Popov, for #194816, which resolved: [gen_l10n] Add use-explicit-plural-values option.

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Piinks commented on Jan 24, 2026

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