Um. I need to make a correction to this. Rats. We are aiming to let WebGPU ride the trains in Firefox *141*, not 140, entering beta on June 23, for release on July 22nd.
Apologies for the confusion. On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM Jim Blandy <jbla...@mozilla.com> wrote: > (We don't really have an official template for beta, but here goes.) > > I intend to enable WebGPU on Windows in the early beta stages of Firefox > 139, which enters beta this coming Monday, April 28. "Early beta" extends > through Beta 6, so WebGPU would no longer be visible in Beta 7, on May 12. > This will help us prepare to let WebGPU ride the trains in Firefox 140, for > release on June 24. > > WebGPU has been shipped in Chromium. Apple is working on a WebKit > implementation for Safari. > > WebGPU is currently a W3C Candidate Draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu. > > Mozilla's position on the standard is positive: > https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webgpu > > WebGPU has a conformance test suite written using the Web Platform Tests > framework: https://github.com/gpuweb/cts > > If you would like to try out WebGPU, it has been enabled in Nightly builds > for quite some time on all platforms except Android. There are some samples > here: > > - https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples/ > > > - https://threejs.org/examples/?q=webgpu > > On Android, we don't yet have adequate test coverage in CI; however, if > you'd like to try it out there anyway, you can set the > `gfx.webgpu.ignore-blocklist` pref. There is no pref to enable WebGPU in > Release or the present Beta. > > Our blockers for shipping WebGPU to release are tracked in Bug 1956070, > alias `webgpu-mvp`. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-platform@mozilla.org" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dev-platform+unsubscr...@mozilla.org. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/CAMziabHLhnu99y6uwQEffq2YkLLSb0wtN%3DtKSVyZJJuwGvDFbQ%40mail.gmail.com.
