--- title: This Month in Xilem, August 2024 | daily.dev description: A monthly progress digest from the Linebender organization covering development across its Rust GUI ecosystem projects. Xilem gained animated variable font... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Month in Xilem, August 2024 | daily.dev og:description: A monthly progress digest from the Linebender organization covering development across its Rust GUI ecosystem projects. Xilem gained animated variable font... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OdKGm2ntN.png og:image:alt: This Month in Xilem, August 2024 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Month in Xilem, August 2024 **[Linebender](https://daily.dev/sources/linebender)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A monthly progress digest from the Linebender organization covering development across its Rust GUI ecosystem projects. Xilem gained animated variable font rendering and ViewMarker restoration; Masonry saw major progress on pass specification (compose, mutate, paint, and accessibility passes) plus community-contributed widgets; Vello (the GPU vector renderer) added blurred rounded rectangles, blend stack spilling, bitmap glyph support, and wgpu texture embedding; Parley added text-editing primitives; and a new animation library called Interpoli was started. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"This Month in Xilem, August 2024","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn"},"datePublished":"2026-08-31T05:54:35.334Z","dateModified":"2026-08-31T05:55:01.467Z","description":"A monthly progress digest from the Linebender organization covering development across its Rust GUI ecosystem projects. Xilem gained animated variable font...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--58gMhC4P--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2012","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Linebender","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Linebender","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/linebender"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-month-in-xilem-august-2024-odkgm2ntn","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,rust","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Linebender","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/linebender"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"This Month in Xilem, August 2024"}]} ```