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Add reuse render_sibling to avoid memory leak. to @robert-ancell PR #183539

We observed a memory leak on Linux Desktop with Wayland on embedded ARM cpu and an OpenGL ES driver.
While the fix works in our environment, I'm not sure it's correct in all scenarios. Maybe someone with more experience in the Flutter Linux rendering can review and provide some feedback.
The memory leak seems related to issue mentioned below.

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This pull request addresses a memory leak on Linux with Wayland by reusing a sibling framebuffer instead of creating a new one for each frame. This is implemented by adding a render_sibling member to FlCompositorOpenGL. To support this and correctly manage the lifecycle of the underlying EGL image, a new GObject wrapper, FlEGLImage, is introduced, which uses reference counting. The changes are well-structured and address the reported issue. I've found one critical memory leak in the constructor of the new FlEGLImage class that should be addressed.

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Merged and retested - I'm still getting black window contents when the window is resized. This does not occur in master. Have not investigated beyond that.

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@robert-ancell thank you for testing. I simplified the managing of the sibling, and I can't reproduce the black screen window. Could you give me some guidance how to reproduce the black screen and the system you are using (OS? GPU? Wayland?).

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With the simplification it's working here, so this is now good to land.

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Further testing shows this breaking multi-window support: #183871

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2026-03-18 [email protected] Roll Skia from 2fb5fa71eb12 to f0a13e5efbad (2 revisions) (flutter/flutter#183830)
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2026-03-18 [email protected] Linux reuse sibling (flutter/flutter#183653)
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2026-03-18 [email protected] fix(web): handle asynchronously disposed platform views (flutter/flutter#183666)
2026-03-17 [email protected] (Test cross-imports) Remove legacy Material import from sliver_constraints_test (flutter/flutter#183351)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Fix Android Studio pluginsPath when version is unknown (do not use 0.0) (flutter/flutter#182681)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Fixes animation glitch into bottom sheet (flutter/flutter#183303)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Handle#6537 second grouped test (flutter/flutter#182529)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Add a Clarification for the docs of suggestionsBuilder of SearchAnchor (flutter/flutter#183106)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Remove obsolete null checks from style guide (flutter/flutter#181703)
2026-03-17 [email protected] [Impeller] Do not delete the GL object in a HandleGLES if the handle has a cleanup callback (flutter/flutter#183561)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Encode source file patches as UTF-8 in the code formatter script (flutter/flutter#183761)
2026-03-17 [email protected] Fix widget inspector control layout and add safe area regression test (flutter/flutter#180789)
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2026-03-17 [email protected] fix(web): fix crash in Skwasm when transferring non-transferable texture sources (flutter/flutter#183799)
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When running the `examples/multiple_windows` and creating a regular
window then closing it causes the content of the main window to stop
being updated. The terminal shows:
```
GrGLGpu::flushRenderTargetNoColorWrites glCheckFramebufferStatus 8cd7
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLGpu.cpp(2271) :
                Clear(clearMask)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(225) :
                DrawRangeElements(glPrimType, minIndexValue, maxIndexValue, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex))
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(216) :
                DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance( glPrimType, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex), 1, baseVertex, 0)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(216) :
                DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance( glPrimType, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex), 1, baseVertex, 0)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(216) :
                DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance( glPrimType, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex), 1, baseVertex, 0)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(203) :
                DrawArrays(glPrimType, baseVertex, vertexCount)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(216) :
                DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance( glPrimType, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex), 1, baseVertex, 0)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLOpsRenderPass.cpp(216) :
                DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance( glPrimType, indexCount, 0x1403, this->offsetForBaseIndex(baseIndex), 1, baseVertex, 0)
---- glGetError 0x506(Unknown) at
        ../../flutter/third_party/skia/src/gpu/ganesh/gl/GrGLTexture.cpp(192) :
                ObjectLabel(0x1702, fID, -1, label.c_str())
```
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