Updatify / Flutter | Release notes

• flutter/188161 Fixes a resource leak that sometimes caused crashes when using external textures on some GPUs (such as Arm Mali).

• flutter/187980 On Linux, building asset bundles with native assets enabled without a native app build directory crashes due to missing CMakeCache.txt.
• flutter/188805 Fixes a crash when running Android instrumented tests.

• flutter/188718 When building Flutter Android apps and add-to-app modules using AGP < 9 with KGP, the tool incorrectly logs Built-in Kotlin migration warnings.
• flutter/186810 flutter/187388 flutter/187553 When building Android app bundles using flavors, or with an old app template combined with a plugin coming alphabetically before app, fixes problems with failing to include libapp.so in the produced app bundle.
• flutter/188035 When rendering text with shadows, the shadows would appear elsewhere on the screen, separate from the text.
• flutter/187237 Fixes a crash that can happen during app shutdown or rotation on some Android devices using Impeller/Vulkan with HCPP.

• flutter/188192 Fix bounds checking in Flutter Linux’s FlAccessibleTextField.

• flutter/186738 Demote flavor/platform asset skipping messages from warning to trace level to reduce build log noise.
• flutter/186899 On Android, destroying a texture before the GLES fence that it holds was used may cause a crash.
• flutter/186953 When building concurrently with SwiftPM on macOS/iOS, concurrent directory/file/symlink creation may cause a crash.
• flutter/183179 Fixes an issue that can cause crashes when rendering animated PNG images.

• flutter/187322 When DTD connection is lost or fails at startup during widget-preview on all platforms, the tool crashes with unhandled exceptions instead of exiting gracefully.
• flutter/186723 When Android apps switch from any SystemUiMode to edge-to-edge, the system bars unexpectedly remain invisible.
• flutter/186054 When building an iOS or macOS app with Swift Package Manager enabled, remote package dependencies may fail to download.
• flutter/185775 When building for non-iOS or macOS apps, Swift Package Manager warnings may appear.

• flutter/186962 When the analysis server exits unexpectedly, the flutter tool can crash instead of outputting a descriptive error message.
• flutter/186963 When failing to connect to a Chrome instance on Windows, the flutter tool can crash instead of outputting a descriptive error message.

What’s changed

Framework

• Add new motion accessibility features to iOS. by @ksokolovskyi in 178102
• Implementation of tooltip windows for win32 by @mattkae in 179147
• Make sure that an EditableText doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 180457
• Merge widget_tester_leaks_free_test.dart into widget_tester_test.dart by @dkwingsmt in 180600
• Make sure that a Container doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 180350
• Make sure that an Expansible doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 180478
• Make sure that a CupertinoTabScaffold doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 179824
• Make sure that a FlutterLogo doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 180617
• Make sure that a LongPressDraggable doesn’t crash in 0x0 environment by @ahmedsameha1 in 180408
• Migrate doc and code to use sendAnnounce by @chunhtai in 180776

• flutter/185621 Fixes a potential integer overflow that can happen when handling some animated PNG files.

• flutter/185150 When using profile mode on a physical iOS device, the app may fail to connect to the Dart VM.

• flutter/184376 When building an iOS or macOS app, the build may fail due to git multi-pack-index error.
• flutter/184254 When debugging on physical iOS devices and Xcode 26.4+, app often crashes.
• flutter/184689 When using an ffi Windows package, don’t require a plugin class.

• flutter/184025 Include a fix from Skia that ensures that the correct atlas for the glyph mask format is used consistently.
• flutter/182708 Visual issues with circles appearing jagged. Especially on thin stroked circles and circles with small radii.
• flutter/183887 During SCREEN_OFF event a deadlock preventing new frames causing an ANR can occur on android devices running the Android 16 March Security update.

• flutter/182708 When using Impeller on any platform, bur artifacts in circles rendering at 45 degree angles.

• flutter/182748 When building for an iOS simulator with Xcode 26, the build will fail when there is a CocoaPod dependency that does not support arm.
• flutter/182361 When iOS plugins register to receive lifecycle events during an event, a crash may occur.
• flutter/182367 Crash on Flutter Web Skwasm apps.
• flutter/183071 Updated test package and related dependencies.

• flutter/182501 Reduce CPU utilization of idle Flutter Windows apps.
• flutter/182233 Tapping on the status bar may crash the app on iOS when there’s a primary scroll view that has never been laid out.

• flutter/179673 When content sizing is not enabled on Android, a race condition can sometimes make platform views not render correctly.
• flutter/182076 Fix flutter build web ignoring –web-define flag
• flutter/182243 Don’t throw an exception if no web define variable is set.
• flutter/182292 Fix bug in multisurfacerenderer where canvases do not have “position: absolute”

• flutter/182314 Test coverage is broken due to pinned test_api version in flutter_test.
• flutter/182335 Version 1.29 of the Dart test package adds a blank line to test output causing unexpected test failures.

What’s changed

Framework

• Add saturation ColorFilter. by @ksokolovskyi in 176464
• Remove unnecessary nullable types in examples. by @ksokolovskyi in 176713
• [WebParagraph] Support for more styles, placeholders, decorations, etc by @Rusino in 172853
• feat: apply radioGroup role to segmented control widgets by @rkishan516 in 176157
• Fix computeDistanceToActualBaseline throws when accessing child size by @bleroux in 176906
• Implement Regular Windows for Linux by @robert-ancell in 176187
• Update examples to latest Linux runner style by @robert-ancell in 177033
• Fix key events interception by RadioGroup when no Radio is focused. by @ksokolovskyi in 176335
• Updates sliver_tree.1.dart‎ to use MediaQuery.widthOf(context) by @AbdeMohlbi in 176888
• fix: :bug: Add equality and hashCode implementations to ScrollAwareImageProvider by @Yash-Dhrangdhariya in 175038

• flutter/181607 When using an ffi plugin on macOS, generated frameworks have the wrong structure.

• flutter/181568 Update Dart to 3.10.8.

• flutter/178151 - flutter run -d chrome may crash with a DartDevelopmentServiceException when the application shuts down during the startup sequence.

• flutter/179857 - flutter run -d all crashes if multiple devices are available.

• flutter/179139 - flutter widget-preview start creates new cached build artifacts on each run, resulting in increasing disk usage after each run.
• flutter/178896 - Apps crash during launch on Windows when run from paths containing non-ASCII characters.
• flutter/176943 - Configuration changes to run tests on macOS 15 or 15.7.2 for Flutter’s CI.
• flutter/179914 - Flutter Android apps that upgrade to AGP 9.0.0 require migration steps.
• flutter/175099 - When WebViews are scrolled on iOS 26, they become unclickable.
• flutter/175074 - When the virtual keyboard is closed on Android web, the area behind it remains blank and the app only draws in the area that used to be above the keyboard.
• flutter/180381 - Apps crash on Android when enabling accessibility, hiding a platform view, and pulling out the top curtain.

• flutter/179700 Update dart to 3.10.4.

• flutter/178547 Rendering issues in the Linux desktop embedder when using Skia.
• flutter/178529 AppLocalizations getting deleted when running debug web
• flutter/178660 flutter widget-preview start can crash if .dart_tool/widget_preview_scaffold/.dart_tool doesn’t exist on subsequent runs.
• flutter/175227 Flutter Web applications launched in Chrome show a warning related to –no-sandbox.
• flutter/179155 flutter widget-preview start crashes if a file named pubspec.yaml is modified outside the root of the previewed project.
• flutter/156692 flutter attach can crash if the target application disconnects unexpectedly.
• flutter/179008 flutter pub get could be spawned multiple times on MacOS when pubspec.yamls outside of the project were modified after a flutter pub get in the root project.
• flutter/178715 Running flutter test on Linux/MacOS for Android projects with build hooks fails without the desktop native tooling installed.

• flutter/178772 Flutter engine reports a different version than the framework.
• flutter/178804 Bump Dart version to 3.10.1.

• flutter/178472 Widget preview command can crash on exit if in the middle of analyzing changes to a Dart file.
• flutter/178452 Flutter fails to build on iOS with error message: “Improperly formatted define flag” in add-to-app scenarios.
• flutter/178486 When running flutter widget-preview start with Flutter Web disabled, an exception is thrown and the widget previewer fails to start.
• flutter/178317 Running flutter pub get can crash the widget previewer when plugin dependencies are added or updated.
• flutter/178318 Certain flutter crash scenarios can result in multiple crash reports being submitted for a single process crash.
• flutter/176399 Visual Studio 2026 is not supported when compiling Windows desktop applications.
• flutter/175058 The widget previewer fails to start if flutter pub get has not been run in the target project.
• flutter/178421 When debugging from an IDE with a physical iOS 26 device, IDE installs an app but hangs on a white screen during launching.

• flutter/178400 Adds support for Dart 3.10 stable.

What’s changed

Framework

• Add dartpad example to RoundedSuperellipseBorder by @dkwingsmt in 172185
• [web] Remove all usages of js_util. by @ksokolovskyi in 171871
• Properly lay out and position RenderWebImage by @harryterkelsen in 171916
• Add a getter to get the recorder used by painting context by @MohiuddinM in 170223
• add debugPaintTextLayoutBoxes for debugging text layout by @LongCatIsLooong in 168876
• Platform views shouldn’t receive pointer events when not laid out by @justinmc in 172043
• TestTextInput should reset its key handler between tests by @justinmc in 172323
• Recommend using Flutter feature flags over platform-specific configs by @loic-sharma in 172324
• WebParagraph initial commit by @Rusino in 167559
• Add CLA note to tree hygiene by @stuartmorgan-g in 172475
• Feat: Add momentary varient of CupertinoSlidingSegmentedControl by @rkishan516 in 164262

• flutter/174082 Apps, on all platforms, that extend MenuController class see a compile time failure when building.
• flutter/173770 Mitigates a memory leak that occurs on Android, when Activities are not kept upon exit and an Activity is exited and re-entered.

• flutter/175669 flutter analyze --suggestions supports versions up to Java 25, Gradle 9 and AGP 9, Kotlin 2.2.20.
• flutter/172624 Fixes an issue that could result in a corrupt pipeline cache when using the Impeller Vulkan back end.

• flutter/172105 Flutter view no longer hangs after multiple transitions on iOS add-to-app.
• flutter/173106 Multiple cursors display correctly.

• flutter/173474 - On all platforms PlatformDispatchers.instance.engineId no longer returns null after hot restart.
• flutter/174513 - On iOS 26, fix a bug where platform view’s gesture blocking fails and lets touches on Flutter views fall through to underlying platform views.

• flutter/172627 - Unnecessary output is printed in non-verbose mode.
• flutter/173917 - On Android, flutter build apk may fail to calculate the version code when using --build-number.
• flutter/174437 - When running a Flutter web application in debug mode, the console is spammed with non-fatal error messages.
• flutter/174267 - Golden test failures can cause the test harness to stall.
• flutter/171691 - A race condition can cause crashes in the Impeller Vulkan back end.
• flutter/174100 - Superellipses may not render correctly when using Impeller.
• flutter/174015 - Obsolete warning and error messages are shown when switching between build modes in Xcode.

• flutter/173823 - On Android builds that do not use flutter.minSdkVersion and do use a value lower than 24 in a kotlin build file, correct flutters auto migration to update value with kotlin syntax.
• flutter/173741 - Fixes an issue that prevents (web) screen readers from pressing buttons through keyboard shortcuts.
• flutter/173960 - Fixes an issue where starting a widget preview fails if Chrome or Edge is not installed.
• flutter/174017 - Fixes an issue when running a 32-bit process on a 64-bit Windows system.
• flutter/173895 - Don’t crash widget preview when a directory watcher restarts on Windows.
• flutter/171992 - Blocks exynos9820 chip from using the Impeller Vulkan backend.
• flutter/173959 - Fixes a null assertion when trying to add @Preview() to invalid nodes.
• flutter/174184 - Fixes an issue where WASM builds were incorrectly triggered when dry run is disabled and –wasm is not specified.

• flutter/173785 - Fixes an issue that prevented downloading the Flutter SDK for Windows from flutter.dev.

What’s changed

Framework

• Fix TreeSliver rendering offset. by @yiiim in 166442
• SliverEnsureSemantics by @Renzo-Olivares in 165589
• [framework] re-enable skipped impeller goldens. by @jonahwilliams in 166354
• Reverts “SliverEnsureSemantics (#165589)” by @auto-submit[bot] in 166870
• ImageStreamCompleter no longer checks _hadAtLeastOneListener for disposal by @dkwingsmt in 166797
• [Web] Ensure that NetworkImage does not crash when disposed between frames by @dkwingsmt in 166652
• Migrate in-comment links of the flutter/engine repository to the flutter/flutter repository by @dkwingsmt in 166790
• Remove unnecessary this. qualifiers. by @scheglov in 166805
• [Impeller] Use device property uniform aligment instead of conservative value of 256. by @jonahwilliams in 166884
• Reland “SliverEnsureSemantics (#165589)” by @Renzo-Olivares in 166889

• flutter/150131 iOS users on macOS 15 may see a tool crash if permissions are missing. Can work around by enabling mDNS permissions.
• flutter/155294 flutter/169506 On android Add a new api for requesting a new surface from the embedder that is different from any previously returned.
• flutter/172602 Do not call hasUnifiedMemory that was introduced in macOS 10.15 on versions before 10.15.
• flutter/172250 TextInput.hide call incorrectly clears the text in the active text field on iOS.

• flutter/172121 - Fix iOS images replaced with pink fill when coming out of background.

• flutter/171106 - When a scroll view contains a LayoutBuilder on any platform, prevent null check crash.
• flutter/171239 - When using Impeller + Vulkan and transitioning between activities that use Flutter on Android, prevent a crash.
• flutter/171737 - When using platform views on Android SDK 10-13 (API 29-33) prevent app crash when backgrounding and then foregrounding app.

• flutter/170924 - Fix Flutter Windows on devices that only support OpenGL ES 2, like computers with Intel graphics cards.
• flutter/170880 - Fixes unhandled exception on application shutdown in the debug adapter used by IDEs.
• flutter/170846 - Fix image decode errors on iOS that could occur if a push notification triggered image decoding while the app is backgrounded.
• flutter/171034 - Fixed an issue where iOS/macOS workflows may not behave as expected due to missing dev dependencies.

• flutter/170536 - Fixes a code-signing issue on Mac hosts when running dart tooling.

• flutter/170052 - Fixes “active” indicator for NavigationBar and NavigationDrawer
• flutter/170013 - Fixes a memory leak in the Impeller Vulkan back end.
• flutter/169912 - Fixes failures to build an Android AAB in release mode.

• flutter/169772 - Configuration changes for Flutter’s CI to run tests on Linux instead of Windows when not otherwise required.
• flutter/169630 - Fixes issue where flavored Android packages may not successfully build on Windows repeatedly until the next clean.
• flutter/169912 - Splits Flutter CI task for publishing API docs into one build step and one deploy step.

• flutter/156793 - Fixes flaky crash when targeting web applications via IDEs using the DAP.
• flutter/168849 - Fixes an issue rendering wide gamut images.
• flutter/168846 - Fixes an issue displaying the wrong icons in the widget inspector for some apps.
• flutter/167011 - Fixes Flutter Android builds for apps which use plugins with old Android Gradle Plugin versions.
• flutter/169101 - Reduces the cost of running the (sometimes flaky) Linux fuchsia_test on release branches.
• flutter/169318 - Fixed a bug where the flutter tool crash reporting did not include what plugins were being used by the current project.
• flutter/169160 Fixed a bug where appFlavor is null after hot restarts or during flutter test.
• flutter/167011 [Android] Fix regression in NDK version checking for projects with old AGP versions.
• flutter/168847 [Widget Inspector] Fix missing cupertino icon in on-device inspector.

Flutter framework

Framework

• Do not block vertical drag gestures in CupertinoSheetRoute body by @MitchellGoodwin in 161696
• Make PipelineOwner a base class by @LongCatIsLooong in 161789
• [Impeller] backfilling TextContents unit tests by @gaaclarke in 161625
• Fix documentation of Flow.clipBehavior by @mernen in 161863
• Roll pub packages by @flutter-pub-roller-bot in 162015
• Adds cupertino picker semantics test by @chunhtai in 161768
• [Impeller] Migrate unit tests off of Skia geometry classes by @flar in 161855
• const AnimationStyle by @nate-thegrate in 160564
• Reverts “[Impeller] Migrate unit tests off of Skia geometry classes (#161855)” by @auto-submit in 162046
• Replace hacky code creating fake devices by @robert-ancell in 162056
• fix: Call codec.dispose in flutter_test by @koji-1009 in 161131

• flutter/165818 - Unset GIT_DIR to enable flutter tool calls in githooks.
• flutter/163421 - Impeller, Android, Fixes Android Emulator crash when navigating to routes with backdrop blurs.
• flutter/165166 - Impeller, All platforms, Text that is scaled over 48x renders incorrectly.
• flutter/163627 - Fix issue where placeholder types in ARB localizations weren’t used for type inference, causing a possible type mismatch with the placeholder field defined in the template.
• flutter/165166 - Update CI configurations and tests to use Xcode 16 and iOS 18 simulator.
• flutter/161466 - Hot restart can hang on all platforms if “Pause on Unhandled Exceptions” is enabled by the debugger and a call to compute or Isolate.run has not completed.

• dart 3.7.2 changelog
• flutter/164958 - Impeller, All platforms, Text that is rotated 180 degrees exactly will render as if it is scaled by {-1, 1} instead of {-1, -1}.
• flutter/165075 - Fixes crashes on Android devices older than API 29 when using Impeller OpenGLES.
• flutter/164606 Fixes missing glyph error on Android and iOS devices using Impeller.
• flutter/164036 - On iOS devices Increase number of concurrent background image decode tasks to partially mitigate “Image upload failed due to loss of GPU access” errors.
• flutter/163175 - Improve performance of CanvasKit rendering for web.
• flutter/164628 - iOS Fixes crash when allocation of surface for toImage/toImageSync fails.
• flutter/164201 - Always use Android hardware buffers for platform views when supported.
• flutter/164024: - Add back an empty io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication for Android apps post v2 embedder migration.
• flutter/162198 - Fixes double-download of canvaskit.wasm

• flutter/163830 - Fix Tab linear and elastic animation blink.
• flutter/164119 - Configuration changes to run test on macOS 14 for Flutter’s CI.
• flutter/164155 - Roll .ci.yaml changes into the LUCI configuration only when the master branch is updated.
• flutter/164191 - Improve safaridriver launch process in Flutter’s CI testing for web.
• flutter/164193 - Provide guided error message when app crashes due to JIT restriction on iPhones.
• flutter/164050 - Fixes test reorderable_list_test.dart failing for certain ordering seeds, such as 20250221.
• flutter/163316 - Configuration changes to run test on macOS 14 for Flutter’s CI.
• flutter/163581 - Fix crash when using BackdropFilters in certain GLES drivers.
• flutter/163616 - Disable Vulkan on known bad Xclipse GPU drivers for Android.
• flutter/163666 - Always post new task during gesture dispatch to fix jittery scrolling on iOS devices.

Flutter framework

Framework

• Remove gradle_deprecated_settings test app, and remove reference from lockfile exclusion yaml by @gmackall in 161622
• Check that localization files of stocks app are up-to-date by @goderbauer in 161608
• [deps] remove no-longer-used repo deps by @devoncarew in 161605
• Fix showLicensePage does not inherit ambient Theme by @TahaTesser in 161599
• Roll Packages from 3c3bc6832b39 to d1fd6232ec33 (4 revisions) by @engine-flutter-autoroll in 161597
• Remove unused method by @robert-ancell in 161572
• update changelog for 3.27.2 release by @christopherfujino in 161569
• Roll Dart to Version 3.7.0-323.0.dev by @a-siva in 161567
• Update changelog for 3.27.2 release by @christopherfujino in 161566
• Replace fetchwith gclient sync. by @matanlurey in 161565
• [Impeller] fixes for AHB swapchains. by @jonahwilliams in 161562
• Last Engine<>Framework lint sync by @goderbauer in 161560
• Reverts “Match CupertinoPageTransitionsBuilder animation duration to CupertinoPageRoute (#160241)” by @auto-submit[bot] in 161555
• [DisplayList] remove obsolete use of Skia geometry objects in DL utils by @flar in 161553
• Mark Mac_mokey microbenchmarks as flakey by @jtmcdole in 161550
• Use wildcards by @goderbauer in 161548
• [canvaskit] Fix GIF decode failure by @harryterkelsen in 161536
• Copy linux_host_engine as linux_host_engine_test, removing archives: [...]. by @matanlurey in 161532