RFR: 8373091: Make Metal the default JavaFX rendering pipeline for macOS

[Kevin Rushforth]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:58:07 GMT, Ambarish Rapte <arapte at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The metal rendering pipeline was integrated in PR #1824, It has been well tested and ready for to be default pipeline on MacOS. 
> During JavaFX 26 it was temporarily set as default for 6 weeks, during which we did not see any issues.
> Changing the pipeline to default early in jfx27 would offer more testing.
> 
> If required one can always use es2 pipeline by passing `-Dprism.order=es2`

LGTM. As you say, the metal pipeline is well-tested.

I presume you have (or will) run a CI headful test job?

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Marked as reviewed by kcr (Lead).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2050#pullrequestreview-3700073673