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A forced dispose (gtk_widget_destroy) runs even while the raster thread holds a strong reference on the view and is presenting onto the compositor. Releasing the compositor in dispose could free it mid-present, causing a use-after-free. Move the release to finalize so it lives until the last reference (held transitively by the raster thread) is dropped.

Fixes #188659

A forced dispose (gtk_widget_destroy) runs even while the raster thread holds a
strong reference on the view and is presenting onto the compositor. Releasing
the compositor in dispose could free it mid-present, causing a use-after-free.
Move the release to finalize so it lives until the last reference (held
transitively by the raster thread) is dropped.

Fixes flutter#188659
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Note, this requires a non-deterministic series of events to write a test case, which is why one is omitted.

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Manual roll Flutter from 0c80830e465b to ca9f874f5284 (119 revisions)

Manual roll requested by [email protected]

flutter/flutter@0c80830...ca9f874

2026-06-30 [email protected] [tool] Don't require a Flutter compile task when staging jniLibs (flutter/flutter#188805)
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2026-06-30 [email protected] Roll pub packages (flutter/flutter#188764)
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2026-06-29 [email protected] Migrate ABI splits to new AGP dsl (flutter/flutter#188369)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Add Impeller+OpenGLES startup benchmark for mokey (flutter/flutter#188495)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Increase macOS minimum supported version from 10.15 to 12 to support Xcode 27  (flutter/flutter#188520)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Moves test ownership validation to flutter/flutter (flutter/flutter#188655)
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2026-06-29 [email protected] Android_hardware_smoke_test: Enable pixel exact local file comparator to read goldens from flutter asset URI (flutter/flutter#188587)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Use DeviceHub.app for iOS simulator path on Xcode 27+ (flutter/flutter#187910)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from 111e7582d081 to bfb7860cb9c7 (2 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188731)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Use `revert` label instead of `revert_wf` (flutter/flutter#188639)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Properly await Dart Development Service shutdown with timeout (flutter/flutter#188387)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Track asset transformer dependencies for hot reload (flutter/flutter#187947)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Tool] Tolerate malformed UTF-8 in process streaming decoders (flutter/flutter#188453)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Use new ddc modules in test (flutter/flutter#188240)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Packages from c1f7d92 to 656ccaa (12 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188728)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Remove unused fields (flutter/flutter#188705)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Clear text input handler widget on view dispose (flutter/flutter#188701)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Free compositor in view renderer finalize to avoid use-after-free (flutter/flutter#188702)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [linux] Use GWeakRef in mock signal handler test helper (flutter/flutter#188700)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Fixing few related editing issues with LTR/RTL text (flutter/flutter#188503)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Flutter GPU] Add Texture.fromImage to wrap a ui.Image texture (flutter/flutter#188605)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Flutter GPU] Honor the enable argument in RenderPass.setDepthWriteEnable (flutter/flutter#188715)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from ba1942d8c3e1 to 111e7582d081 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#188721)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from 587d8befe1ee to ba1942d8c3e1 (6 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188717)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Remove some refs to package:intl (flutter/flutter#188504)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [VPAT] Update a11y assessment app FAB example to announce value change when it's updated. (flutter/flutter#188466)
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…flutter#12081)

Manual roll Flutter from 0c80830e465b to ca9f874f5284 (119 revisions)

Manual roll requested by [email protected]

flutter/flutter@0c80830...ca9f874

2026-06-30 [email protected] [tool] Don't require a Flutter compile task when staging jniLibs (flutter/flutter#188805)
2026-06-30 [email protected] [Impeller] Fix potential overflow when allocating buffers at the next power of two size (flutter/flutter#188742)
2026-06-30 [email protected] [Framework/Tool] Decouple preview theme imports (flutter/flutter#188176)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Add import of `dart:_js_interop_wasm` in sdk rewriter tool (flutter/flutter#188620)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Detach LLDB and print stack trace on process stop (flutter/flutter#188576)
2026-06-30 [email protected] [Linux] Fix FlCompositorOpenGL.pixels comment (flutter/flutter#188754)
2026-06-30 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Fix crash in flutter create when pubspec.yaml is empty (flutter/flutter#188385)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Roll Packages from 656ccaa to 274ed3e (23 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188792)
2026-06-30 [email protected] In AndroidImageGenerator, check that the destination pixel buffer has sufficient capacity for the decoded data (flutter/flutter#188752)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Roll pub packages (flutter/flutter#188773)
2026-06-30 [email protected] [Impeller] Add a flat VertexAttributeFormat for vertex inputs (flutter/flutter#188684)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Roll pub packages (flutter/flutter#188764)
2026-06-30 [email protected] Roll Dart SDK from 0cb483880b6b to e1bdb9ce3327 (2 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188763)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Handle 'no permissions' adb device state (flutter/flutter#187248)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [windows]: adjusts uniform buffers to hit hlsl optimization (flutter/flutter#188538)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from bfb7860cb9c7 to 71947c4110b0 (9 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188747)
2026-06-29 [email protected] ci: extract wait-for-engine-build logic into a reusable composite action (flutter/flutter#188748)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Provide guided migration logs when iOS app crashes on simulator (flutter/flutter#188736)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Revert "[flutter_tools] Track asset transformer dependencies for hot reload" (flutter/flutter#188751)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Migrate ABI splits to new AGP dsl (flutter/flutter#188369)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Add Impeller+OpenGLES startup benchmark for mokey (flutter/flutter#188495)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Increase macOS minimum supported version from 10.15 to 12 to support Xcode 27  (flutter/flutter#188520)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Moves test ownership validation to flutter/flutter (flutter/flutter#188655)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Add --flavor support for Windows desktop builds (flutter/flutter#187034)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Android_hardware_smoke_test: Enable pixel exact local file comparator to read goldens from flutter asset URI (flutter/flutter#188587)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Use DeviceHub.app for iOS simulator path on Xcode 27+ (flutter/flutter#187910)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from 111e7582d081 to bfb7860cb9c7 (2 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188731)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Use `revert` label instead of `revert_wf` (flutter/flutter#188639)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Properly await Dart Development Service shutdown with timeout (flutter/flutter#188387)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Track asset transformer dependencies for hot reload (flutter/flutter#187947)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Tool] Tolerate malformed UTF-8 in process streaming decoders (flutter/flutter#188453)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [flutter_tools] Use new ddc modules in test (flutter/flutter#188240)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Packages from c1f7d92 to 656ccaa (12 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188728)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Remove unused fields (flutter/flutter#188705)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Clear text input handler widget on view dispose (flutter/flutter#188701)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Free compositor in view renderer finalize to avoid use-after-free (flutter/flutter#188702)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [linux] Use GWeakRef in mock signal handler test helper (flutter/flutter#188700)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Fixing few related editing issues with LTR/RTL text (flutter/flutter#188503)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Flutter GPU] Add Texture.fromImage to wrap a ui.Image texture (flutter/flutter#188605)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [Flutter GPU] Honor the enable argument in RenderPass.setDepthWriteEnable (flutter/flutter#188715)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from ba1942d8c3e1 to 111e7582d081 (1 revision) (flutter/flutter#188721)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Roll Skia from 587d8befe1ee to ba1942d8c3e1 (6 revisions) (flutter/flutter#188717)
2026-06-29 [email protected] Remove some refs to package:intl (flutter/flutter#188504)
2026-06-29 [email protected] [VPAT] Update a11y assessment app FAB example to announce value change when it's updated. (flutter/flutter#188466)
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