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 Xilem is our flagship GUI project, inspired by SwiftUI.
 It lets you build user interfaces declaratively by composing lightweight views together, and will diff them to provide minimal updates to a retained layer.
 
+- [xilem#681][]: `View::rebuild` was updated to reflect the ability to use reborrowing.
+- [xilem#669][]: The font weight for `label`s was exposed.
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+Work on Xilem Web continues.
+
 ## Masonry
 
 Masonry is the widget system used by Xilem.
 It provides a non-opinionated retained widget tree, designed as a base layer for high-level GUI frameworks.
 
-<!-- - [xilem#515][]: Removes unimplemented functionality from our text handling code. -->
+- [xilem#632][]: Starts a Masonry book, including a guide on creating a To-Do List app.
+- [rfcs#7][]: The pass specification RFC has been fully implemented, and the RFC has been merged.
+- [xilem#705][]: Moved methods for mutating widgets to free functions.
+  - This decreases ergonomics in favour of increasing uniformity between Masonry and crates which create their own widgets.
+  - This change is intended to improve rustdoc output, and the ergonomics should be restored once Rust has Arbitrary Self Types V2.
+- [xilem#615][]: Our accessibility for text has been greatly improved, allowing by-character and by-word movement through accessibility tools.
+- [xilem#660][]: `request_paint` has been removed in favour of a new `request_render`, so that accessibility updates are less likely to be missed.
+- [xilem#718][], [xilem#720][]: restored the ability to embed Masonry in external projects by re-exported required items.
+- [xilem#612][]: A built-in feature-gated integration with [Tracy](https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy).
+
+Daniel also provided a talk to [GOSIM China 2024](https://china2024.gosim.org/) about Masonry.
+The recording of this presentation is not yet available.
 
 ## Vello
 
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 Editor things?
 
-## Druid/Piet
+## Piet
+
+Piet is a 2d graphics library which abstracts over platform-native graphics APIs.
+During October, we released [Piet 0.7.0](https://github.com/linebender/piet/releases/tag/v0.7.0).
+
+Some key updates from October included in this release are:
+- [piet#572][]: Use of `Arc` over `Rc` for stroke dashing, by anesthetice.
+- [piet#585][]: An update to the Rust 2018 edition, from Bruce Mitchener.
+- [piet#578][]: Improved robustness of `copy_raw_pixels` on Direct2D by Kaur Kuut.
+
+## Druid
 
-We are working towards a final release of Druid.
+Druid is a GUI library which was a predecessor to Xilem, and an ancestor of Masonry.
 
-We are also planning on relicensing Druid from its current license of Apache 2.0 only to the Rust ecosystem standard Apache 2.0 OR MIT dual license.
-This will greatly improve cross-compatibility will the rest of the ecosystem, allowing two-way movement of code between most Linebender projects.
-This will also apply to Xilem, Masonry and the (archived) Glazier.
+We are in the process of relicensing Druid from its current license of Apache 2.0 only to the Rust ecosystem standard Apache 2.0 OR MIT dual license.
+If you have previously contributed to Druid, please read and respond to [druid#2414][].
+This will greatly improve cross-compatibility will the rest of the Rust ecosystem.
+We will also apply this to Xilem, Masonry and Glazier (which is currently archived).
 
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