Chrome Release Summary

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Chrome 101

Enabled (7) | Origin Trial (0) | Behind a flag (1) | Deprecated (0) | Removed (0)

Enabled by default in 101

This release of Chrome had 7 new features.

Deprecate and remove WebSQL in third-party contexts

We intend to deprecate and remove usage of WebSQL in third party contexts. Deprecation is targeted for M94 and removal is targeted for M97. #

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Fetch Priority

Fetch Priority provides developers a way to indicate a resource's relative priority to the browser, allowing more control over the order resources are loaded. Many factors influence a resource's priority in browsers. These include type, visibility, and preload status of a resource. This introduces a developer-set "fetchpriority" attribute to HTML elements and a "priority" property to the fetch API allowing developers to influence the computed priority of a resource. Supported fetchpriority values are auto, low, and high. #

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Make 'true' a truthy value for window.open boolean features

This is a recent change [1] to the spec for parsing the windowFeatures argument to window.open(). Previous to this change, window.open(url,'','popup=true') interpreted the 'popup=true' to mean popup is false. With this change, 'true' counts as a truthy value. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7425 #

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MediaCapabilities API for WebRTC

Extends the MediaCapabilities API to support WebRTC streams. The MediaCapabilities API helps web sites to make informed decisions on what codec, resolution, etc. to use for video playback by providing information about whether a configuration is supported and also whether the playback is expected to be smooth. This feature extends the MediaCapabilities API to also include WebRTC streams. #

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Secure context fix for dedicated workers

Dedicated workers loaded from a secure (HTTPS) origin yet instantiated by insecure (non-HTTPS) contexts are no longer considered secure. This results in the following web developer facing changes inside such worker contexts: - `self.isSecureContext` is now `false` - `self.caches` and `self.storageFoundation` are no longer available This aligns Blink behavior with the specification and Gecko. #

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USBDevice forget()

Following the recent HIDDevice forget() addition[1] to the web platform, the USBDevice forget() method allows web developers to voluntarily revoke a permission to a USBDevice that was granted by a user. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Fk-IJF63UWc #

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Resources

Docs: https://web.dev/usb/#revoke-access

No linked samples

Web USB sameObject behavior

Make USBConfiguration, USBInterface, USBAlternateInterface, and USBEndpoint instances returned by the accessors on USBDevice === comparable. #

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Origin Trials in-progress in 101

This release of Chrome had 0 new origin trials.

Flagged features in 101

This release of Chrome had 1 are available behind a flag.

font-palette and custom @font-palette-values palettes

The font-palette CSS property allows selecting a palette from a color font. In combination with the @font-palette-values at-rule, custom palettes can be defined. Use cases: designs where an icon or emoji font is used in combination with dark or light mode, or multi-colored icon fonts that are colorised using font-palette to harmonise with the content's color scheme. font-palette increases efficiency of color font uses, as no server roundtrip is needed for changing the colors of the font. #

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Resources

No linked docs

Samples: Plakato Color Grade (currently polyfilled): https://underware.nl/fonts/plakato/features/color/

Deprecations and Removals

Deprecation policy

To keep the platform healthy, we sometimes remove APIs from the Web Platform which have run their course. There can be many reasons why we would remove an API, such as:

Some of these changes will have an effect on a very small number of sites. To mitigate issues ahead of time, we try to give developers advanced notice so they can make the required changes to keep their sites running.

Chrome currently has a process for deprecations and removals of API's, essentially:

You can find a list of all deprecated features on chromestatus.com using the deprecated filter and removed features by applying the removed filter. We will also try to summarize some of the changes, reasoning, and migration paths in these posts.

Deprecated features in 101

This release of Chrome had 0 features deprecated.

Removed features in 101

This release of Chrome had 0 features removed.