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 ## Library & Tooling Updates
 
+### `wgpu` news
+
+![tuitui-grass-field](https://wgpu.rs/screenshots/tuitui-grass-field.png)
+
+The work is ongoing to validate all the incoming commands and guarantee API safety.
+Special thanks to @GabrielMajeri for helping to convert assertions into errors at `wgpu` level.
+We are also introspecting shader requirements, and matching them against the pipelines, but
+this will take more effort before it will become universally available.
+
+@cwfitzgerald has been busy adding a few handy native-only extensions, such as descriptor indexing
+and push constants. They have also converted our logging to [tracing](https://crates.io/crates/tracing),
+setting up our infrastructure for CPU profiling.
+
+#### API turbulence
+
+In the past 2 months, the API for descriptor structures in `wgpu-rs` has been undergoing
+a turbulent period. First, non-exhaustive semantics led to introduction of constructors.
+Then, efforts to reduce code duplication inside `wgpu` project has led to the
+[bovine invasion](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs/pull/460) on wgpu-rs API side.
+We are figuring out the plan to address that with a builder pattern now, which will
+address both the `Cow`s and non-exhaustives, hopefully putting the end to the turbulence.
+
+In the meantime, `wgpu-rs` ecosystem is flourishing with applications and libraries.
+We updated the [showcase gallery](https://wgpu.rs/#showcase) with a few shiny images.
+
+#### Servo
+
+Finally, @kunalmohan has been busy [implementing WebGPU](https://github.com/servo/servo/projects/24) in Servo,
+based on `wgpu`. Thanks to this work, Servo is currently ahead of Gecko in terms of API being up-to-date
+and covered :tada:. It's already capable of rendering most of the examples, and we are looking forward to
+the day when the same Rust code (rendering with `wgpu-rs`) will be deployable to the Web,
+and viewable from Firefox, Servo, Chrome, and other browsers.
+
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