1,368 changes found their way to the repositories last week, 802 for Chromium and 566 for WebKit. Highlights include Chromium 19, an Extension Activity Log page and no more high-latency audio code path.

The branch for Google Chrome 18 has been created, giving Anthony a cause to remind us about Potassium while kicking Chromium’s version 19. Approximately 6,500 Chromium, 4,400 WebKit commits and 300 v8 commits participated in this release, giving a combined total of over 11 thousand changes. Chrome 18 brings six new stable extension APIs, a CSS Selector Profiler, Mutation Observers and many, many more changes.

Work has been started on an Extension Activity Log page which will share information about API calls a certain extension makes, allowing you to keep an eye out on their behavior.

Web Inspector’s Heap Inspector is now able to show a percentage-based representation of memory usage for objects as well. The protocol version has been increased to 1.0, getting an XPath query for an item in the DOM will soon be supported and an experiment for editing styles after a single click has been started. Finally, it’s now also possible to select BlackBerry’s UA strings in the Inspector’s switcher. Work on supporting touch event emulation is progressing.

Support for fixed and percentage-based minimum widths on table elements with table-layout: auto has been implemented, and styling background colors in regions has been re-enabled as well. The preload scanner will now take the base element into account and the disabled attribute on SVG style elements is now supported.

Albeit disabled by default through a compile-time flag, basic functionality of scoped stylesheets has started working per Ronald’s commit. Limitations for selector matching in the <content> element’s select attribute are now being verified, backgrounds inside SVG’s foreignObject element will now be drawn, the Content-Language value (meta-only for now) will influence the document’s locale and fonts and SVG’s getIntersectionList method won’t cause visual distortion anymore.

Through 19 different commits, Kentaro Hara has been doing a great job cleaning up IDL files throughout WebKit .

Other changes which occurred last week:

• The Dromaeo bench-mark has been checked in to WebKit and will be used for performance measuring.
• The WebKit Mac-port Early Warning System bot is now available for all contributors.
• Michael Saboff and Vsevolod Vlasov are now WebKit reviewers, congratulations!
• A user’s preferred language may now be taken into account when choosing the right subtitles.
• WebKit’s GStreamer-based Web Audio implementation is no longer dependent on FFTW.
• It is now possible to build Samsung’s WebKit EFL port with support for WebGL.
• Chromium has been taught about Deferred Canvas Rendering, through Skia’s SkDeferredCanvas.
• Andreas has killed per-Attribute style declarations and saved another 412 kB of memory.
• Antti has been refactoring CSS, splitting WebKit’s internal and external style declarations.
• A command line flag has been added to Chromium to enable the Shadow DOM.
• The Extension Storage API has been moved back to experimental for Chrome 18.
• All Chromium OS bots and builds will now be using the Aura interface.
• The high-latency audio code path has been removed from Chromium.
• CSS Filters have been enabled for WebKit’s Windows port.

And that’s all again!